The WebAssembly Working Group has published today the three WebAssembly specifications as W3C Recommendations, marking the arrival of a new language for the Web which allows code to run in the browser.

Have you ever used tilde (~) in your JavaScript code?

When using open source code you might encounter bugs in this code. Since it's open source, you can find the faulty code and the fix it yourself. The right thing to do next is of course to submit an issue and/or a pull request on the project. But what if the…

Everything you need to know about re:Invent 2019

We are generating astounding amounts of data. Estimates show that the amount of data worldwide will increase by 60% per year, reaching 175 zettabytes by 2025, up from 33 in 2018. Roughly half of it will be stored in public clouds and the rest in other types…

When workers automate their own duties, who should reap the benefits?

Colin Bendell gets into the minutia of microbrowsers - the small previews of your site that are pervasive all around the web and through social media apps and search engines whenever an item of content on your site is referenced.

The clock is ticking for Google Cloud.The Google unit, which sells computing services to big companies, is under pressure from top management to pass Amazon or Microsoft—currently first and second, respectively, in cloud market share—or risk losing funding.…

A curated list of 23 node security best practices with code examples and quotes from the top ranked blogs

Let’s retire the ‘virtual DOM is fast’ myth once and for all

A front end lead engineer, international speaker, blogger and a hiker.

Let’s not overcomplicate things. Improve readability with shorthand alternatives to common JavaScript expressions.

A simple explanation of the peerDependencies field in the package.json file

Here's a cheap trick to make a difference: focus on the bare essentials and get rid of the rest. It's easy to be different, because others are mostly doing the opposite: tons of crap.

If you are an experienced developer, you may well know about makefiles. Today we are going to bust some myths and see how to use them as…