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HTTP/3: from root to tip
Explore HTTP/3 from root to tip and discover the backstory of this new HTTP syntax that works on top of the IETF QUIC transport.
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Audio Fingerprinting using the AudioContext API
Audio fingerprinting takes advantage of device performance specs to build up an identifying fingerprint of a user. It uses the AudioContext API for this
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JIT-Less V8
V8 v7.4 supports JavaScript execution without allocating executable memory at runtime.
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Firefox brings smooth video playback with the fastest AV1 decoder
With this week's release of Firefox 67, the new high performance royalty-free AV1 video decoder dav1d is now enabled by default on all desktop platforms (Windows, OSX and Linux) for ...
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Svelte is the most beautiful web framework I've seen
I first heard about Svelte a year ago, when Rich Harris presented it at JSConf EU 2018. The demo gods were a bit harsh on him, but it didn't matter to me, because I was so impressed by his philosophy and ideas that I was already sold. I knew he'd work out the kinks, go through a few major versions, and Svelte would be…
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How Shopify Manages API Versioning and Breaking Changes
This year, we released the 1st official version of our API. Our API versioning scheme allows us to providing apps with stable behavior and predictable timelines.
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Firefox moving to 4 week releases
Building and releasing a browser is complicated and involves many players. To optimize the process, and make it more reliable for all users, over the years we’ve developed a phased ...
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When to Use TypeScript – A Detailed Guide Through Common Scenarios
Strap yourself in. In this guide, we compare when it's absolutely vital to be using TypeScript, the strictly-typed programming language, and when it makes sense to stick to vanilla JavaScript.
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BigInt Shipping in Firefox
wingolog: article: bigint shipping in firefox!
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So you want your app/website to work in China
Updated 2021-06-10
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JMAP: Like IMAP but Not Really
With the new year upon us, I decided it was time to do something ambitious for my Open Source project. This is where I normally quip about never mentioning my project before, even though I literall…
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WordPress theme provider Pipdig using customer sites to DDoS competitors
pipdig, WordPress theme and plugin provider, caught distributing malicious code to customers and DDoSing competitors…
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Web Graphics Done Right
Start taking graphics on the web seriously and boost your applications' performance by learning the essentials about digital image formats.
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WebAssembly Interface Types: Interoperate with All the Things
People are excited about running WebAssembly outside the browser. People are also excited about running WebAssembly from languages like Python, Ruby, and Rust. Lin Clark's Code Cartoons are back, illustrating ...
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Web Developer's Guide to DNS
Every developer should know the basics of DNS, the critical protocol at the heart of the web.
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New React DevTools
We are excited to announce a new release of the React Developer Tools, available today in Chrome, Firefox, and (Chromium) Edge! What’s changed? A lot has changed in version 4! At a high level, this new version should offer significant performance gains and an improved navigation experience. It also offers full support…
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Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software
In a world of closed platforms, browser extensions are the rare exception that let users modify the apps that we use.
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The death watch for the X Window System has probably started
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Fluent 1.0: a localization system for natural-sounding translations
Fluent is a family of localization specifications, implementations and good practices developed by Mozilla. With Fluent, translators can create expressive translations that sound great in their language. Today we’re announcing ...
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HTTP/3: the past, the present, and the future
We are now happy to announce that QUIC and HTTP/3 support is available on the Cloudflare edge network. We’re excited to be joined in this announcement by Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, two of the leading browser vendors and partners in our effort to make the web faster and more reliable for all.
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CSRF is really dead
A little while back I wrote a blog post about how "CSRF is dead". It focused on SameSite cookies, a powerful yet simple feature to protect your website against CSRF attacks. As powerful as it was, and as much as it will kill CSRF, you had to enable it on
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Micro Frontends
How to split up your large, complex, frontend codebases into simple, composable, independently deliverable apps.
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Mozilla and Opera remove Avast extensions from their add-on stores
The Avast extensions which were spying on their users are no longer available from Mozilla and Opera add-on stores. Google still has to take action.
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Flexible data tables with CSS Grid
Now that we've launched, I can finally talk about the secret project I've been working on for the last two years. One interesting piece of the Teamwork CRM puzzle was the "list view". It's a powerful page component which exists seven times in the app — a table on steroids essentially. I could talk about it…
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Ghost 3.0
A new business model for publishing, a new architecture for software, and $5,000,000 of funding.
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150k Small Business Website Teardown 2019
I set out to understand which website platforms are the best (and the worst), what drives really fast websites, the state of small business SEO, and how well this stuff correlates with Google...