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A technical update on our recent service issues at 3.4M CCU, including a call to action!

Posted by Emily Schechter, Chrome Security Product Manager For the past several years, we’ve moved toward a more secure web by strongly adv...

"It’s sort of like the way modern computer systems are set up."

winamp2-js - A reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and Javascript

Three years ago we launched Chicisimo, our goal was to offer automated outfit advice. Today, with over 4 million women on the app, we want…

It can be tricky to do functional tests on web applications. There is a lot of frameworks that can help us to do that but it comes…

The feature set of ECMAScript 2018 was finalized during the latest TC39 meeting (23-25 January 2018). This blog post describes it.

Researchers recently discovered certain drugs, including one developed to treat Alzheimer’s, stimulate innate self-repair mechanisms

Activating T cells in tumors eliminated even distant metastases in mice, Stanford researchers found. Lymphoma patients are being recruited to test the technique in a clinical trial.

Business has never been better at Basecamp. Despite all the competition, all the noise, and all the changes since we launched 14 years ago…

It’s an "intentionally broad" policy aimed at stopping scammers.

React’s unique strength is bringing to JavaScript development some of the benefits previously exclusive to more radically functional languages such as Elm an...

The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.

This is the story on how I speed up my terminal load time.

With the combination of Red Hat and CoreOS, Red Hat amplifies its leadership in both upstream community and enterprise container-based solutions.

Since the dawn of time (before software, there was only darkness), there has been one constant: businesses want to build software cheaper and faster. It is certainly an understandable and laudable goal – especially if you’ve spent any time around software developers. It is a goal that every engineer should support wholeheartedly, and we should... Read more »

Personas are useful tools for UX work, so why do they often fail? Find out what pitfalls cause personas to fail, and how to avoid and overcome them.

You got this great idea, but you can’t code. Or you read that startups with only one founder always fail. You want to find a co-founder…

1Password is hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS). We have been using AWS for several years now and it is amazing how easy it was to scale our service from zero users three years ago to several million users today. We recently switched from AWS CloudFormation to Terraform to manage our infrastructure

Improve web app performance by 10x using NGINX features such as our reverse proxy server, high availability load balancer, content cache, HTTP/2, and more.

Jack White is implementing a "phone-free" policy at his upcoming live shows, so fans can enjoy a "100% human experience"

Incremental Delivery and how it changes the way you see a problem

What problems does it solve?

How do you scale a system from one user to more than 11 million users? Joel Williams , Amazon W...

Quantum computers should soon be able to beat classical computers at certain basic tasks. But before they’re truly powerful, researchers have to overcome a number of fundamental roadblocks.

In February 2006, Robert Hewitt was scuba diving near Mana Island, off the coast of New Zealand's North Island. Hewitt was an experienced navy diving instructor with 20 years in the service, and he told his dive buddy that he would swim back to shore himself. Instead, when he next surfaced, he had been pulled several hundred meters up the coast by a strong current.

An unlikely voice has joined the passionate debate over internet regulation known as net neutrality: Burger King.

Python Crash Course is a quick, no-nonsense guide to programming in Python.