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In October 2019, my company SP Digital held an internal hackathon. My colleague Subhransu and I worked on a whacky idea of writing a brand-new Windows 3.1 app which was an OS released almost 30 years ago. The idea we chose was a Slack client. After all, Slack…

Ed Snowden failed to seek pre-publication review as required by NSA contracts.

Howard Scott Warshaw’s video game was blamed for single-handedly sinking a multibillion-dollar market. But the true story is more complicated.

I spent some time talking to a reporter yesterday about how advertisers track people on the internet. We had a really fun time looking at Firefox’s developer tools together (I’m not an internet privacy expert, but I do know how to use the network tab in developer…

We’ve all had our issues with learning English or any language for that matter. This is because there are some aspects that are just hard to learn or deal with. The maddening things in learning Eng…

The French have long learned that saying "no" is great. You can always say "non" upon "non", and then, after further discussion, finally settle on a "yes" if you're happy with the outcome. However, if you start with "yes"...

Visual Studio Code. Contribute to microsoft/vscode development by creating an account on GitHub.

What we learned from the spy in your pocket.

V8 v8.0 features optional chaining, nullish coalescing, faster higher-order builtins — oh and 40% less memory use thanks to pointer compression, no big deal.

This year, we released the 1st official version of our API. Our API versioning scheme allows us to providing apps with stable behavior and predictable timelines.

Logic bombs created periodic malfunctions that only he knew how to fix.

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How the biggest cloud companies deliver the worst value

Researchers have spent centuries looking for a scenario in which the Euler fluid equations fail. Now a mathematician has finally found one.

You can scroll down to the punchline if you like, but I want to start by thanking the Mozilla community, contributors, industry partners and colleagues alike, for the work everyone has put into this. Hundreds of invested people have weighed in on our hard…

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications