Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales launches WT:Social to counter “clickbait nonsense” of Facebook and Twitter
Last month, co-founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales launched WikiTribune Social (WT:Social), a collaboratively editable news-focused social network. This site aims to compete with popular...
Tim Berners-Lee launches a nine-principle ‘Contract for the Web’ to save the web
Update: Mozilla declared on the 28th November, that they now support the Contract for the Web. However, they have not signed the contract yet...
4 predictions by Richard Feldman on the future of the web: TypeScript, WebAssembly, and...
At ReactiveConf 2019, Richard Feldman, author of Elm in Action and creator of ‘elm-css’ made four predictions about how the future of web development...
Firefox Preview 3.0 released with Enhanced Tracking Protection, Open links in Private tab by...
Earlier this month, the Firefox team released the Firefox Preview 3.0 with various features to make browsing and bookmarking safer and easier. This release...
Django 3.0 released with built-in async functionality and support for MariaDB and Python 3.6,...
Yesterday, Django released its latest major update - Django 3.0. Django is a Python-based web framework designed to help developers build apps faster with...
Firefox 71 released with new developer tools features
Yesterday, the Firefox team announced its latest version, Firefox 71. This version includes a plethora of new developer tools features such as web socket...
You can now use WebAssembly from .NET with Wasmtime!
Two months ago, ASP.NET Core 3.0 was released with an updated version of the Blazor framework. This framework allows the building of interactive client-side...
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) declares WebAssembly 1.0 as an official web standard
Last Thursday, the World Wide Web Consortium declared Web Assembly 1.0 as an official W3C Recommendation. With this announcement, WebAssembly becomes the fourth language...
OpenJS Foundation accepts Electron.js in its incubation program
Yesterday, at the Node+JS Interactive in Montreal, the OpenJS Foundation announced the acceptance of Electron into the Foundation’s incubation program.
The OpenJS Foundation provides vendor-neutral...
App and web development in 2019: What we loved and what mattered
For app and web developers, the world at the end of the decade is very different to the one that began it. Sure, change...