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Firefox: Retained Display Lists
Hot on the heels of Off-Main-Thread Painting, our next big Firefox graphics performance project is Retained Display Lists! I you haven’t already read it, I highly recommend reading David’s post abo…
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Data Factories
Facebook and Google and other advertising businesses are data factories, and regulation will be most effective if it lets users look inside
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Great Adventure-Game Puzzles
This blog has become, among other things, an examination of good and bad game-design practices down through the years, particularly within the genre of adventure games. I’ve always tried to take the subject seriously, and have even dared to hope that some of these writings might be of practical use to someone — might…
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Introducing the Apollo GraphQL Platform
We started Apollo in 2016 with the objective of lowering the barriers to making high-quality, modern apps. Since then, we have seen tremendous growth in our community with nearly 500,000 downloads per week and companies like Audi, the New York Times, Airbnb, and CNBC all making strategic commitments to GraphQL. With…
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Spend analysis of 6 years, 686 rides, and $12k spent on Uber (2017)
What I learned from my Uber data I save $703/month using Uber versus owning 2 cars (🚙🏎). I’ve spent $12,041 on 686 Ubers over 6 years. By comparison, car ownership cost $11,783 per year, most of it depreciation. What could $703/month buy you? Well, four years of $703/month and you’ll save enough to climb Mount…
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First Lightning mainnet release
Today, we at Lightning Labs are announcing the release of lnd 0.4-beta ! This release marks the 4th major release of lnd and the first Lightning mainnet beta, an important milestone. With this release, lnd has gained a considerable feature set, deeper cross-implementation compatibility, a new specialized wallet seed…
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Open source confronts its midlife crisis
Midlife is tough: the idealism of youth has faded, as has inevitably some of its fitness and vigor. At the same time, the responsibilities of adulthood have grown: the kids that were such a fresh adventure when they were infants and toddlers are now grappling with their own transition into adulthood – and you try to…
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How the Å came to be
Major upheavals in printing technology, language, politics, and religion converged in the fourteenth century, setting the stage for a brand…
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SQLite: Infinite loop due to the ‘order by limit’ optimization
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Mailinator.com: Anatomy of a Spammy Campaign
Mailinator is a popular disposable email service. It's also become a great tool for QA Teams to test email receipt, acknowledgment, authen...
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On the Law of Diminishing Specialization
On Productive Technology and its Discontents Recently, I’ve been dipping in and out of Edward Tenner’s provocative 1996 book, When Things Bites Back. In following ... Read more
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You can't contain me: elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in Docker for Windows
I have been continuing my journey of searching for windows breakout vulnerabilities in popular applications and one that I discovered in March I found intere...
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Rust Traits Deep Dive, Part 2
Traits Deep Dive, Part 2
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Mythology About Security
Ed Felton tweeted a few days ago: “Often hear that the reason today’s Internet is not more secure is that the early designers failed to imagine that security could ever matter. That is a myth…
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Facebook Lenses
Facebook was down dramatically after its last earnings; to decide if it is justified it is worth looking at the company through many different lenses, both financial and strategic.
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How JPEG actually works (2006)
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Hi, I’d Like to Add Myself to the New Yorker (2016)
Personal site of designer Frank Chimero
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Rust and QML: a timely example
A brief recap. The new project Rust Qt Binding Generator can create bindings between Rust code and Qt code. You can use Rust code to power your Qt application. Or in other words, you can use Qt as a cross-platform user interface for your Rust application.
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Retirement and Realignment
Effective today, I have resigned my employment at Microsoft, concluding an engaging and delightful 4½ years as part of the Xamarin documentation team. I will miss my co-workers immensely, and I hope to keep in touch with them on Facebook.
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An overview of the top web hacking techniques of 2017
The verdict is in! Following 37 nominations whittled down to a shortlist of 15 by a community vote, our panel of experts has conferred and selected the top 10 web hacking techniques of 2017 (and 2016)
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The Ant Design Christmas Egg That Went Wrong
Ant Design is a design language comes with a set of React component open sourced by Alibaba’s Ant Finance. One can assume its popularity by looking at its 38837+ stargazers on Github .
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TunnelBear Joins McAfee
TunnelBear joins McAfee but will continue to develop the bear-filled products you've come to know and love.
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