Jack Wallen (via Hacker News, MacRumors): RLBox is a new method of sandboxing, which makes it easy to efficiently isolate subcomponents and make Firefox more secure. RLBox uses WebAssembly to isolate possible buggy code. […] How RLBox works is compl…
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Lees meerSteve Troughton-Smith: Apple really needs to throw out its crowdsourced machine-learned autocorrect system entirely. Autocorrect used learn from everything I typed, now it interjects with typos & weirdisms from random internet users. It’s been a com…
Lees meerAdam Doppelt (tweet, via Hacker News): Recently my team was tasked with building a favicon fetcher. As a warmup, I looked to see how Chrome handles favicon loading. Do you know that the favicon loader in Chrome is many thousands of lines of code? Wh…
Lees meerDieter Bohn: If Google sticks to its roadmap, by this time next year Chrome will no longer allow websites to use third-party cookies, which are cookies that come from outside their own domains. The change theoretically makes it vastly more difficult…
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Lees meerJoe Groff (via David Smith): For these reasons, we think it makes sense to change the the language rules to follow what is most users’ intuition, while still giving us the flexibility to optimize in important cases. Rather than say that releases on …
Lees meerMichael Feeney (Hacker News): To help me understand how modern applications would have looked liked in the Mac OS 9 era, I had to start analysing the OS in greater detail.[…]I then started creating a Library of Mac OS 9 components that I reused thro…
Lees meerGaël Elégoët (in 2014, via Hacker News): Funnily enough, now that we have reached a state of almost no limit in term of CG possibilities, the trend is to « simplify », starting with IOS 7 icons, and now the more flat look of 10.10 Yosemite slowly mo…
Lees meerTimothy B. Lee (via Hacker News): When I clicked through to individual product pages, I found that most of those hundreds of positive reviews were for products other than can openers[…] […] Apparently, shady merchants gain control of Amazon pages fo…
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