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"I do like the idea of short stories, in English original, and the idea of encouraging existential contemplation." Hopefully so does this kid.

Pessimism takes a hit this day and goes down. Tentative excitement goes up.

Put down the ad. Just, take my money and go. Don't hurt my internet.

Well that was fast.

Then let's call Facebook a ... personal data whore.

I feel like this article is trying to shame me personally.

The rise of Python. Someone else would make an inappropriate joke in here, but I shan't.

"Computing that happens in the background without the active participation of the user."

"But how do they fix software glitches?" I'm glad you asked.

I mean, that's one way to test updates.

Yes, I'm yelling.

JavaScript is the main cause for making websites slow. Ten years ago it was network bottlenecks, but the growth of JavaScript has outpaced network and CPU improvements on today's devices.

I think it's kinda cool to see Google dropping repos of interesting web components. It demonstrates the possibilities of cool new web features and allows them to ship them in a way that's compatible with entirely web standards.

Writing mochitests for new features in DevTools can be difficult and time-consuming. There are so many elements interacting in an async manner that I oftentimes find myself using the debugger to debug the debugger!

What's an experimental, potentially game-changing Web development technology without a fiddle?

Google’s open-source Chromium code base is steadily gaining ground of late. After Microsoft opted to use it for Edge last week, privacy-focused browser Brave announced that it has switched to Chromium with its latest release, v.0.57.

Feature Policy can help protect your site from third parties using APIs that have security and privacy implications, and also from your own team adding outdated APIs or poorly optimized images.

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article on what exactly the DOM is. To recap, the Document Object Model is a representation of an HTML document. It is used by browsers to determine what to render on the page, and by Javascript programs to modify the content, structure, or styling of the page.

Maiden flight scheduled for 2023. I'm a patient man!

I'm going to try to get my money from the bank and they're going to tell me it's in Joe's house, and in the Kennedy house.

You wouldn't steal a car, you wouldn't steal a handbag, you run business email compromise (BEC) scam that would take nearly $1 million from starving children.

Facebook: "Long live Fake News!"