Inventing Favicon.ico
In 1998, I was a junior Program Manager on the Internet Explorer team at Microsoft. My first project was shipping Internet Explorer 4 Plus, a CD-ROM with Internet Explorer 4.0 and a whole lot of tr…
Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses
Perhaps you've read posts like Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names and Falsehoods programmers believe about time . Maybe you've also read Falsehoods programmers believe about geography .
ECMAScript 6
An overview of some of the most interesting features of ECMAScript 6, the latest version of the JavaScript specification.
Domain-validated SSL will soon be free from the large CAs
Upcoming plans revealed from two of the largest commercial CAs
Block and Unsubscribe
Posted by Sri Harsha Somanchi, Product Manager Sometimes you get mail from someone who’s really disruptive. Hopefully it doesn’t happen o...
Node.js: Some quick optimization advice
#NodeJS : A quick optimization advice Can you spot the difference between these two files : that can explain a 50% performance gain : If you don’t, it’s normal, you try to read the code …
Thunderbird Usage Continues to Grow
We’re happy to report that Thunderbird usage continues to expand. Mozilla measures program usage by Active Daily Installations (ADI), which is the number of pings that Mozilla servers receive as installations do their daily plugin block-list update. This is not the same as the number of active users, since some users…
Forging an Alliance for Royalty-Free Video
Things are moving fast for royalty-free video codecs. A month ago, the IETF NETVC Working Group had its first meeting and two weeks ago Cisco announced Tho
Gotchas from Two Years with Node
Get started sending data from your Node.js servers to Segment and any destination using the Analytics Node.js library.
What a graph of 8,000 fake Twitter accounts looks like
Recently I've been plagued with Tweets saying that I'm "trending in London." As flattering as that is, it's not true. There appears to be a network of Twitter bots which are randomly repeating other people's tweets, ripping off avatars and bios, and generally causing a nuisance. Looking at the users' Twitter name, I…
Demystifying SEO with experiments
Building the platform where people around the world come to search, save and shop
A cartoon guide to Flux
Flux is both one of the most popular and one of the least understood topics in current web development. This guide is an attempt to explain…
The viability of JavaScript frameworks on mobile
Whether I like it or not, not everyone using my web apps will be running iOS 9 on an iPhone 6S or a Nexus 6P and connecting via super-speedy wifi.
In search of the perfect JavaScript framework
The latest news about Opera web browsers, tech trends, internet tips.
MathBox 2: PowerPoint Must Die
PowerPoint must die.
Deku: How we built our functional alternative to React
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
Bringing Asm.js to Chakra and Microsoft Edge
A couple of months back, we announced that we had started development on Asm.js. Support for Asm.js has been one of the top 10 most-requested items at the Microsoft Edge Developer Suggestion Box on UserVoice since we launched it in December 2014. Since that time, we’ve made good progress, and in Windows 10 Insider…