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Page views of candidate coverage expected to increase as Election Day...
Guest column: Kemper Smith of the audience insights company Parse.ly says the company expects that given the contentious campaign and the limited opportunities for the candidates to meet face-to-face,...
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Washington Post Builds Its Own Ad Tech To Speed Up Mobile | AdExchanger
Although The Washington Post partners with Facebook Instant Articles and Google AMP, which help speed mobile load times, it’s also striking out on its own.Over a two-month period, a team of Post...
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Announcing the Addition of PressForward Data to the WP API with PressForward...
Today the PressForward team is pleased to announce the release of PressForward 4.1, an update to our WordPress plugin that enables the aggregation of RSS / ATOM feeds and the curation of web...
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Introducing debugger.html ★ Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
debugger.html is a modern JavaScript debugger from Mozilla, built as a web application with React and Redux. This project was started early this year in an effort to replace the current debugger...
View ArticleHow it feels to learn Javascript in 2016
Edit: Thanks for pointing typos and mistakes, I’ll update the article as noted. Discussion in HackerNews and Reddit. The following is inspired by the article “It’s the future” from Circle CI. You can...
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BDSM JS Server Mocks
28 Sep 2016 on javascript | web Introducing BDSM (Based on a true story) We had a problem The frontend team was way way (way) ahead of the server team. More than half the APIs we needed weren’t done...
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Swagger Ain’t REST – is that OK?
If you’ve spent much time with me, you’ve undoubtedly heard me ramble on at length about linked data. And in those conversations, you’ve likely heard me say something to the effect of “linked data is...
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How the Web Became Unreadable
I thought my eyesight was beginning to go. It turns out, I’m suffering from design. It’s been getting harder for me to read things on my phone and my laptop. I’ve caught myself squinting and holding...
View ArticleUsing Microservices to Encode and Publish Videos at The New York Times – The...
Video publishing at The Times is growing For the past 10 years, the video publishing lifecycle at The New York Times has relied on vendors and in-house hardware solutions. With our growing investment...
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Programmers confess unethical, illegal tasks asked of them
Flickr/Tim Regan Earlier this week, a post written by programmer and teacher Bill Sourour went viral. It’s called “Code I’m Still Ashamed Of.” In it he recounts a horrible story of being a young...
View ArticleUsing Microservices to Encode and Publish Videos at The New York Times – The...
Using Microservices to Encode and Publish Videos at The New York Times Video publishing at The Times is growingFor the past 10 years, the video publishing lifecycle at The New York Times has relied on...
View ArticleHow the Web Became Unreadable
Why have I been blocked? This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that...
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Silicon Valley Stumbles in World Beyond Software – WSJ
Silicon Valley’s push into the physical world “is going to be a much longer, slower process, especially in the next couple of chapters,” said Andrew McAfee, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
View ArticlePressForward 4.2: Announcing the Addition of PressForward API Endpoints |...
In PressForward 4.1 we announced the first step toward a set of PressForward API endpoints in conjunction with the WP-API. In 4.1 we added PressForward metadata to the post endpoint and today we’re...
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Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Enhancing property sets to cover more...
Since initially announcing property sets earlier this year, one of the most popular requests has been to expand this functionality to more sections of Search Console. Thanks to your feedback, we’re...
View ArticleWhat’s with @thinkpiecebot lately? – Medium
It’s been over a year since I started @thinkpiecebot, and it’s grown a LOT in the interim. The code is a huge, often unwieldy mess, there are over 100 formulas in it, and in the past couple of months...
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IT Jobs Explained With A Broken Lightbulb [comic]
Do you know what “frontend” really does? Or “ops”? How about “leadgen”? Well, this comic should clear things up. It’s totally accurate, too: This comic was created by the Toggl Goon Squad – the...
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Twitter app bug inflated video ad metrics by as much as 35% – Business Insider
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.John Lamparski/Getty Images A bug in a recent version of Twitter’s Android app inflated video advertising metrics by as much as 35%, a person familiar with the matter told...
View ArticleReverse tracking wall in two lines of JavaScript
Let’s build a simple reverse tracking wall. This is a way to encourage users to install or configure tracking protection, by rewarding them with access to particular web pages. Step zero. Make a page...
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What the Hell Happened to Mozilla and Firefox?
Mozilla has a new logo, the latest in the company’s effort to rebrand itself as a modern technology outfit worthy of your attention. It’s no surprise that the company reaching to stay relevant in the...
View ArticleRefocusing the “story” away from individual articles to the overarching...
Kill the article. That was the theme of the Global Editors Network hackathon that I participated in with Seattle Times teammates Ben Turner and Justin Mayo. This was one of 20 hackathons happening...
View ArticleTrump Proposes Cutting State Department Budget by 37% – WSJ
WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is proposing deep cuts in U.S. diplomatic and foreign-aid funding while dramatically increasing defense expenditures, a bid to fundamentally shift the emphasis of...
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Why 16% of the code on the average site belongs to Facebook, and what that means
According to data collected by BuiltWith.com, 6% of the top 10,000 most high-traffic sites load content from Facebook’s servers. For the vast majority of them, that content is likely Facebook’s...
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The Node.js world is imploding | The Outline
A close-knit tech community has fallen into disarray over a debate that started around a Code of Conduct and quickly spiraled into a referendum on diversity initiatives. Ashley Williams, an outspoken...
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Eliminating Roundtrips with Preconnect – igvita.com
The “simple” act of initiating an HTTP request can incur many roundtrips before the actual request bytes are routed to the server: the browser may have to resolve the DNS name, perform the TCP...
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How 3rd Party Scripts can be performant citizens on the web
Harry Roberts recently wrote a piece about how third parties can cripple your performance. In this article, I want to show you how it isn’t all doom and gloom: there are a number of strategies can be...
View ArticleChrome and Stale-While-Revalidate
Chrome is looking at adding support for RFC5861’s stale-while-revalidate, which is really cool. I wrote about the details of SwR when it first became an RFC, but its application to browsers is...
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I have resigned as the WordPress accessibility team lead. Here is why. – Rian...
.entry-header .post-thumbnail This post is written with the Gutenberg editor version 3.9.0. Disclaimer: This post is my opinion and mine alone. After several years of working on WordPress and...
View ArticleOrganizational Debt
We all know that classic aphorism: Year comes to an end, Rust blog post press send. This is mine. There are lots of cool technical improvements to Rust that I want the project to achieve this year,...
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I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site. Here’s how....
The following is a true story. Or maybe it’s just based on a true story. Perhaps it’s not true at all. It’s been a frantic week of security scares — it seems like every day there’s a new...
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