Introducing Firefox Enterprise
Firefox Enterprise is built for organizations with strict security, governance, and compliance requirements.
Lobsters4 min read
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Fancy Curl Sites
So a good while ago I added a fun curl version of my site, meant for viewing in the terminal. Try running these commands!
Lobsters4 min read
Shipping Media Over QUIC at Meta Scale for Instagram Live Ingest
Meta has begun deploying Media over QUIC (MoQ), an emerging open protocol for real-time video streaming at scale. MoQ will help simplify our protocol stack for live streaming video and enhance overall user experience for live video.
Meta Engineering8 min read
The Yandex outage probably didn’t blitz Russian bots
Multiple Ukrainian drone strikes over the last week have taken Russian data centers offline and reportedly caused online bot traffic to plummet - but in reality it's probably not the kind of bot activity most people associate with Russia.
The Verge - All Posts2 min read
Making React Context Cheap with React Compiler
Many of us have craved a context selector at some point, but React still doesn't have one. I benchmarked 5,000 radios to see whether React Compiler makes that matter less than we think.
Lobsters7 min read
The people holding up the internet
Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is, and a lecturer at UCLA keeps it in his spare time. We counted who writes the software under your phone, from the code itself.
Lobsters12 min read
It appears .agent and .agi are about to be the hot new domains
For the first time in years, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - better known as ICANN - is accepting applications for new top-level domains. These are the suffixes at the end of all URLs, and you may know them as things like .com, .org, and .pizza.
The Verge - AI2 min read
Faster streaming HTML with batches and aggregates
In this post I'm going to dive into some of the fun emergent properties of server based streaming HTML. In some ways this is a long overdue follow up of this post: Realtime collaborative web apps without ClojureScript.
Lobsters7 min read
A sustainable web career, for when all this blows over
For better or worse the web industry is going through a bit of a phase. The reasons are largely irrational. People still need the web, nothing has changed there. Regardless, the financials of this business are a struggle. Longterm career prospects are looking dicey.
Lobsters5 min read
Why don’t more developers "use the platform"?
For years, advocates for web standards, performance, and accessibility have implored web developers to “use the platform”. I’ve often been one of those…
Lobsters8 min read
The death of web development education
In a personal blog post, Baldur Bjarnason describes how he worked in various fields and positions: as an author, publisher, consultant, developer, educator, as well as radio and TV producer. None of these jobs were economically viable in the long term.
Lobsters8 min readdjango-modern-rest@0.16.0 release
Hi everyone, I am the release manager of django-modern-rest :) django-modern-rest 0.16.0 is out! Is this your first time that you hear about this project? django-modern-rest is a fully typed / fast / flexible / async-ready framework to create REST APIs for Django.
Lobsters3 min readIANA's email about why example.com changed
I emailed IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) earlier today to ask about the new content on example.com. To my surprise, their VP replied. Here is the email: I am happy to try and answer any questions you have.
Lobsters2 min read
My experience writing automated tests for a SPA
The perfect app for your band practice recordings. Built by musicians, for musicians!
Lobsters8 min read
AI & the Future of the Web
Will AI destroy the web? In this video I discuss how this may slowly occur as AI disrupts the web’s search-and-visit business model, we transition from GUIs to agentic computing interfaces, and generative AI really takes hold . . .
ExplainingComputers
Evolving role of the index: From ranking pages to supporting answers
Search indexing was built to help humans decide what to read. Grounding is being built to help AI systems decide what to say and simultaneously helping people to verify, refine, or challenge what the AI system produces. That is the shift - and it runs deeper than it might first appear.
Bing Chat Blog7 min read
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