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Prime Video Uses WebAssembly
The switch to WebAssembly increases stability, speed.
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GitHub for mobile is now available
Learn more about GitHub for mobile—including highlights of its core features and how to get started.
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How Basecamp Next got to be so damn fast without using much client-side UI
When we started working on Basecamp Next last year, we had much internal debate about whether we should evolve the existing code base or rewrite it. I’ll dive more into that debate further in a later post, but one of the key arguments for a rewrite was that we wanted a dramatic leap forward i…
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Web developer tool secrets that shouldn’t be secrets
This is a talk that I’ve given at CityJS this September. I am a principal product manager for developer tools in Microsoft Edge and these are things I encountered during working on the tools, documenting them and going through user feedback.
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SVG has more potential
A bunch of interesting techniques for using SVG to make unique responsive components.
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Design for Hackers: Why Monet Never Used Black, & Why You Shouldn't Either
Monet’s paintings evoke a sense of energy and life, they leap off the canvas with color and contrast, but Monet somehow managed to avoid using the color black for nearly his entire painting career. By avoiding black in your own designs, you can replicate some of this dynamism. Monet and Other Impressionists Explored…
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Windows 11 system components use the default browser to open links in Europe
Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23531 to the Dev Channel. Changes and Improvements [General] [REMINDER] Insider Pr
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The Closed, Unfriendly World of Wikipedia
Right now, Wikipedia is busy asking for donations to stay afloat. Here’s a thought. If it wants donations, maybe open things up so that outsiders feel like they can contribute expert knowledge without wasting their time.
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Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML
Posted by Tingbo Hou and Tyler Mullen, Software Engineers, Google Research Video conferencing is becoming ever more critical in people's work and p...
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Ruby website redesigned
A Programmer's Best Friend
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Django 1.5 released
Posted by James Bennett on Feb. 26, 2013
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Help the Graphics team track down an interesting WebRender bug
For the past little while, we have been tracking some interesting WebRender bugs that people are reporting in release. Despite best efforts, we have been unable to determine clear steps to reproduc…
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Firefox 94 to start using EGL on Linux
Hi there! This is a guest post from Robert Mader, who contributed enormous improvements to Firefox’s graphics stack on Linux. TL;DR In the upcoming Firefox 94 release we will enable the EGL b…
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Introducing Outlook.com - Modern Email for the Next Billion Mailboxes
Learn what's new with Microsoft Copilot and how it empowers people and organizations for AI-powered work.
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Bringing garbage collected programming languages efficiently to WebAssembly
A recent article on WebAssembly Garbage Collection (WasmGC) explains at a high level how the Garbage Collection (GC) proposal aims to better support GC languages in Wasm, which is very important given their popularity. In this article, we will get into the technical details of how GC languages such as Java, Kotlin…
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WP21
It seems like just yesterday WordPress was becoming a teenager, and in a blink of the eye it’s now old enough to drink! 21 years since Mike and I did the first release of WordPress, forking Michel’…
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The greatest Google Mail feature you may not be using
There's a wonderfully powerful and subtle technique in Google Mail that can be used to enhance every reply you make to a mail: if you selec...
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Ignore AMP
In 2018, my recommendation was to avoid AMP, to use AMP for the most relevant pages, or to use AMP only. In 2020 my recommendation is to ignore it, because AMP largely appears meaningless now. <cite>Upgrade Your HTML II</cite> gives an opinionated idea why.
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Lessons learned from creating a real-time collaborative rich-text editor
A guide to how we built the CKEditor 5 architecture for collaborative editing from the ground up, by extending Operational Transformation concepts.
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Why TUIs are back
Terminal User Interfaces (TUIs) are making a comeback. DHH’s Omarchy is made of three types of user interfaces: TUIs, for immediate feedback and bonus geek poi…
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Don't Download Apps
The personal blog of Caleb Jay Rogers, Software Engineer
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HTTP: , FTP:, and Dict:?
I went for a spelunk through an ancient codebase a few weeks ago which contained a curious regex that I just couldn't grok. Copied to 📋⧉ {<((https?|ftp|dict|tel):[^\'">\s]+)>}i I'm familiar with HTTP and FTP. I worked in the mobile industry, so knew that tel:+44... could be used to launch a dialer. But DICT?!?!?! It…
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HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere
HTTP/3 has been in development since at least 2016, while QUIC (the protocol beneath it) was first introduced by Google way back in 2013. Both are now...
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Is WebP really better than JPEG?
If you have used tools like Google’s PageSpeed Insights, you probably have run into a suggestion to use “next-gen image formats”, namely Google’s WebP image format. Google claims that their WebP…
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A new Gmail inbox
Posted by Itamar Gilad, Product Manager We get a lot of different types of email: messages from friends, social notifications, deals and o...
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One in every 600 websites has .git exposed
Deeply technical and hands-on AI and tech leader. Built, scaled and sold my own… · Experience: Cubes · Education: Nanzan University · Location: London Area, United Kingdom · 500+ connections on LinkedIn. View Jamie Brown’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members.