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Generation UX – How to make websites age-friendly
UserZoom empowers your team with sophisticated UX insights to create digital experiences that delight customers and drive business growth.
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Tools for Remote Software Development and Pair Programming
Examines the software stack Zapier uses to enable collaborative coding and deployment in distributed teams.
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Disqus Demonstrates How to Do Breach Disclosure Right
We all jumped on "the Equifax dumpster fire bandwagon" recently and pointed to all the things that went fundamentally wrong with their disclosure process. But it's equally important that we acknowledge exemplary handling of data breaches when they occur because that's behaviour that should be encouraged. Last week,
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Envoy: 7 months later
On September 14, 2016 we announced Envoy, our L7 proxy and communication bus. In a nutshell, Envoy is a “service mesh” substrate that…
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A Copyright Vote That Could Change the EU’s Internet
On October 10, EU lawmakers will vote on a dangerous proposal to change copyright law. Mozilla is urging EU citizens to demand better reforms. On Octobe
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Updating Logitech Hardware on Linux
Just over a year ago Bastille security announced the discovery of a suite of vulnerabilities commonly referred to as MouseJack. The vulnerabilities targeted the low level wireless protocol used by Unifying devices, typically mice and keyboards. The issues included the ability to: Pair new devices with the receiver…
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How LZ4 works (2016)
LZ4 is an exciting algorithm, but unfortunately there is no good explanation on how it works. This blog post tries to explain it in terms that everybody can understand.
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CSS in JavaScript is like replacing a broken screwdriver with your favorite hammer
There's a ton of interest these days in 'CSS in JS'. The premise is simple: CSS operates in a global namespace, which can result in undesirable side effects, spaghetti code, and extremely difficult to maintain codebases. JavaScript used to do this, and we fixed it by encapsulating everything in modules and using tools…
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What's The End Goal for Wealthfront and Betterment? (2016)
There are three ways to make money in the asset management space: Have a large amount of assets under management ( AUM ) and charge fairly modest fees (mutual funds) Have a relatively low amount of AUM and charge high fees (hedge funds, venture capital funds) Have a relatively low amount of AUM,
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Bypassing Browser Security Warnings with Pseudo Password Fields
It seems that there is no limit to human ingenuity when it comes to working around limitations within one's environment. For example, imagine you genuinely wanted to run a device requiring mains power in the centre of your inflatable pool - you're flat out of luck, right? Wrong! Or
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To Serve Man, with Software
I didn’t choose to be a programmer. Somehow, it seemed, the computers chose me. For a long time, that was fine, that was enough; that was all I needed. But along the way I never felt that being a programmer was this unambiguously great-for-everyone career field with
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Introduction to WebRender
WebRender, is a 2D renderer for the web. It started as Servo’s graphics engine, and we are in the process of integrating it in Firefox. I have been meaning for a while to write about what Web…
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Mac OS High Sierra automatically checks EFI firmware each week
Every week, Macs running High Sierra will check the integrity of their EFI firmware, in a bid to detect tampering by malware.
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Firefox Gets Better Video Gaming and Warns of Non-Secure Websites
Today’s release of Firefox includes various features for developers and users that enable a richer and safer experience on the web. WebGL 2 enables a new
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A Stroke of Genius: Striving for Greatness in All You Do (1993)
Little has been written on managing your own research (and very little on avoiding other people managing your research); however, your research is much more under your control than you may realize.
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Introducing Dash – Reactive Web Apps for Python
Create Reactive Web Apps in pure Python
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Geek Career Paths
Suppose you’re doing technology, and like doing technology, and your career’s going well, and you find yourself wondering what you’re going to be doing in twenty years. I’ve been down several of the roads you might decide to take, and it occurs to me that talking them over might amuse and inform.
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Twitter, but for Math, with Toots
Hooray, it’s yet another social network for you to join! I’m skeptical about new social media, but I’ve been seeing enough posts about mathstodon.xyz that I finally caved and got an account. Mathstodon is the math(s) “instance” of mastodon , a new open-source, decentralized microblogging social network. It’s a lot…
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SKYACTIV-X: first commercial gasoline engine to use compression ignition
Everything you need to know about what's going on. Includes up to date news releases, production and sales results and archives, or sign up for your own RSS news feed.
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A CEO Who Pays Employees to De-Locate from the Bay
Wade Foster [https://twitter.com/wadefoster] is the CEO of Zapier [https://zapier.com/] (YC S12). Read Zapier’s de-location post here [https://zapier.com/blog/move-away-from-sf-get-remote-job/]. If you are interested in remote work, you can also check out our interview with Gitlab…
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Is Haskell the right language for teaching functional programming principles?
The “park bench” panel at the Haskell eXchange last week talked about a lot of things, but some of them can be summarised by the question ...
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