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What happened to WebAssembly
Where are they now? You won't believe her new look!
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The Case for RSS
For several years now, the trend among geeks has been to abandon the RSS format. RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is a way to queue up and serve content from the internet. The MacSparky RSS, for example, gives RSS applications a list of all the articles I post here since you last checked int. It... Continue reading →
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Ways to make a web component
Compare coding style, bundle size and performance of 61 different ways to make a Web Component.
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FaceTime on the web requires Chrome or Edge, no mention of Firefox
macOS 27 Golden Gate with all-new Siri AI powered by Apple Intelligence and new features for a more responsive, delightful experience.
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Road to Elm 1.0
A delightful language with friendly error messages, great performance, small assets, and no runtime exceptions.
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Google OAuth is broken (sort of)
Today I’m publicizing a Google OAuth vulnerability that allows employees at companies to retain indefinite access to applications like Slack and Zoom, after they’re off-boarded and removed from their company’s Google organization. The vulnerability is easy for a non-technical audience to understand and exploit.
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WebKit switching to Skia for 2d graphics rendering
In recent years we have had an ongoing effort to improve graphics performance of the WebKit GTK and WPE ports. As a result of this we shipped features like threaded rendering, the DMA-BUF renderer, or proper vertical retrace synchronization (VSync). While these improvements have helped keep WebKit competitive, and…
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Caching at Reddit
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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The Trouble with D3
Recently there were a couple of threads on Twitter discussing the difficulties associated with learning d3.js. I’ve also seen this come up…
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Cloudflare Pages goes full stack
Cloudflare Pages with Functions is now in open beta!
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How Shopify reduced storefront response times with a rewrite
We rewrote critical software that powers all online storefronts on Shopify, offering the fastest online shopping experience, entirely from scratch and without downtime.
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Running Pong in 240 browser tabs
What should you do with your unclosed browser tabs? I ran pong in mine.
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The Mac App Store’s future of irrelevance
Postbox’s exit from the Mac App Store should sound very familiar to anyone who buys Mac software. If you read between the lines a bit, I think the real story there is one we’ve seen a lot since June 1: they tolerated the App Store’s lack of paid upgrade mechanics before, but sandboxing — and more accurately, needing…
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Django vs. Flask
Practitioner's perspective comparing Django and Flask — two Python web frameworks, their trade-offs, ecosystems, and when each fits. Full article on devel.tech.
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Claude's API now supports CORS requests, enabling client-side applications
Anthropic have enabled CORS support for their JSON APIs, which means it’s now possible to call the Claude LLMs directly from a user’s browser. This massively significant new feature is …
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Laying Out a Print Book with CSS
In which I embark on a quixotic quest to make a physical book using web rendering technology.
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MPC-HC v1.7.13 is released and farewell
v1.7.13, the latest, and probably the last release of our project…
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Supabase Edge Runtime: Self-Hosted Deno Functions
We are open-sourcing Supabase Edge Runtime allowing you to host your Edge Functions anywhere.
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Reverse Engineering the Hacker News Ranking Algorithm
A data-driven exploration of how the Hacker News ranking algorithm works.
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Chrome connects to three random domains at startup
When you start Chrome, it attempts to connect to three random domains. I've seen a few theories about why exactly this happens that brush up against the nefarious. The true rationale is incredibly mundane: hopefully this short summary will clear things up.
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Firefox 82
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
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Tiny websites are great
Why building your own tiny website is a really great project that every coder should do.
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Notch, WebGL, Dart, and ramping up quickly
Just a little something I thought was worth pointing out. @notch , the creator of Minecraft, has been posting updates on his latest toy proj...
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Netflix is now doing per-shot encoding for UHD content
by Aditya Mavlankar, Liwei Guo, Anush Moorthy and Anne Aaron
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Thunderbird for Android preview: Modern message redesign
As we continue down the road to Thunderbird for Android, here's a preview of the redesigned, modernized message view.
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Elm 0.19.1
A delightful language with friendly error messages, great performance, small assets, and no runtime exceptions.
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Django 1.11 Released
Posted by Tim Graham on April 4, 2017