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MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0
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Google Apps drop support for IE9
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Make the Web Work for Everyone
Updated 2016/07/22: Commenters found a few data errors (thanks!) which have now been corrected. Millions of websites have compatibility problems on one or more of the major browsers, leading to ...
Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
HTTPS on NYTimes.com
We are thrilled to announce that we have begun to enable HTTPS on NYTimes.com, an effort that helps protect the privacy of our readers and ensures the authenticity of our content.
Firefox Picture-in-Picture
Got things to do and things to watch? Do both using Picture-in-Picture in Firefox. It lets you pop a video out of its webpage and pin it to your screen so you can keep watching while you're on other pages, tabs and apps.
Instant flood fill with HTML Canvas
TLDR: Demo is at , code is at . The Problem When building a website or app using HTML Canvas, it’s often a requirement to support a flood fill. That is, when the user chooses a colour and cli…
How Discord achieves native iOS performance with React Native
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
Jarvis: an Amazon Echo clone in your browser
Javascript and Node.js training and consulting. Get your team up to speed fast or have us build and implement your next web application.
New Werkzeug and Flask Releases
Update on the Flask 0.10 and Werkzeug 0.9 releases.
Firefox’s New Memory Tool
Firefox Developer Edition 44, released last week, includes a brand new memory tool to help you understand how your web applications are using and retaining memory. This is especially useful ...
Vue 3 as the New Default
The official blog for the Vue.js project
We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly
Build powerful software environments and containerized operations from modular components and simple functions. Perfect for complex software delivery and AI agents. Built by the creators of Docker.
Google added HEVC support in Chrome
Google has recently fixed a bug in Chrome with a big implication for the video streaming industry: Support for adaptive streaming of HEVC / H.265 video content.
Building a web app with no framework
Is it as hard as you think?
Webpack 5
webpack is a module bundler for JavaScript, CSS, HTML, WebAssembly and assets. It builds a dependency graph from your project and emits optimized bundles for browsers, Node.js, Deno, Bun and other environments.
You might not need to store plaintext email addresses
Earlier this year, when I went from having only Facebook-login on Wishy.gift to allow registrations with email address and password, one of my concerns was how to implement this is a way that protects the data and privacy of my users. I don’t have any ads or analytics on the site, the users can select whatever display…
Cloudflare launches Workers Unbound, next evolution of its serverless platform
Today, we are excited to announce the next phase of this with the launch of our new platform, Workers Unbound, without restrictive CPU limits in a private beta.
Falsehoods programmers believe about video
Inspired by numerous other such lists of falsehoods. Pretty much every video player in existence gets a good chunk if not the vast majority of these wrong. (Some of these also/mostly apply to users, though)
Why the Quick Bar (“dickbar”) is still so offensive
Twitter’s official iPhone app, formerly Loren Brichter’s Tweetie and an otherwise awesome client, got a lot of negative reactions from the recent addition of the Quick Bar, a mandatory trending-topics banner on top of the tweet list. A lot of people really hate it, calling it the “ dickbar ” and often abandoning the…
The Mozilla Developer Network has a New Face
Last summer the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) underwent a massive platform change, moving from a hosted third-party solution to our own custom Django application code-named Kuma. That move laid the ...
Exploiting IndexedDB API information leaks in Safari 15
Discover how a software bug in Safari 15's IndexedDB API can track your online activity and reveal your identity.
Mozilla and Google Sign New Agreement for Default Search in Firefox
We’re pleased to announce that we have negotiated a significant and mutually beneficial revenue agreement with Google. This new agreement extends our lon
I Sold The Magazine, Too
The Magazine ’s development workload was much more front-loaded than I expected. These days, 99% of the work is done by the authors, illustrators, and especially the Executive Editor, Glenn Fleishman .
Vue 2.0 is here
Today I am thrilled to announce the official release of Vue.js 2.0: Ghost in the Shell. After 8 alphas, 8 betas and 8 rcs (a total…
No, Safari 14 does not block Google Analytics
This article aims to subdue the rumors that Safari 14 will block Google Analytics (and other similar libraries) by default. It will not.