Google Chrome to simplify URLs by hiding special-case subdomains
Google’s decision to hide the special-case subdomains, “www” and “m” in Chrome M69 received a huge backlash from the public last year. Following this...
Scroll Snapping and other cool CSS features come to Firefox 68
Yesterday, the Firefox team announced details of the new CSS features added to the Firefox 68. Earlier this month they had announced the release...
Is Dark an AWS Lambda challenger?
On Monday, the CEO and Co-founder of Dark, Ellen Chisa, announced the project had raised $3.5 million in funding in a Medium post. Dark...
ES2019: What’s new in ECMAScript, the JavaScript specification standard
Every year a new edition of the ECMAScript (ES) scripting-language specification standard comes out. This year it is its tenth edition, also known as...
Stack Overflow faces backlash for removing the “Hot Meta Posts” section; community feels...
Last week, Stack Overflow users took to its Meta site to express their concern regarding the communication breakdown between the site and its community....
Amazon Transcribe Streaming announces support for WebSockets
Last week, Amazon announced that its automatic speech recognition (ASR) service, Amazon Transcribe, now supports WebSockets. According to Amazon, “WebSocket support opens Amazon Transcribe...
Laracon US 2019 highlights: Laravel 6 release update, Laravel Vapor, and more
Laracon US 2019, probably the biggest Laravel conference, wrapped up yesterday. Its creator, Tylor Otwell kick-started the event by talking about the next major...
Django 3.0 is going async!
Last year, Andrew Godwin, a Django contributor, formulated a roadmap to bring async functionality into Django. After a lot of discussion and amendments, the...
Npm Inc. co-founder and Chief data officer quits, leaving the community to question the...
On Thursday, The Register reported that Laurie Voss, the co-founder and chief data officer of JavaScript package registry, NPM Inc left the company. Voss’s...
IETF proposes JSON Meta Application Protocol (JMAP) as the next standard for email protocols
Last week, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) published JSON Meta Application Protocol (JMAP) as RFC 8260, now marked as “Proposed Standard”. The protocol...
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