simplebits: .@rachelandrew speaks the truth on startups and long hours: http://t.co/bxOmcfjy

marak: Surprisingly good #nodejs advice from @linkedin http://t.co/GyfNoNZE *approves*

bdc: Great post by @shiftyjelly on being an indie developer http://t.co/nyxrxwfF

Years ago, when developers such as myself started the transition away from OS-specific APIs to web APIs, we believed that doing so would empower our software and save it from the confines of the desktop. And we were right. But we've also learned that while web APIs enable us to tap into a wealth of…

This first one has to do with something we take very seriously on the Google+ team: page render speed. We care a lot about performance at Google, and below you'll find 5 techniques we use to speed things up. 1. We <3 Closure We like Closure. A lot. We use the Closure library, templates, and compiler…

philhawksworth: Wow. That was quick. Thanks to @ubelly for a generous write up of my #fullfrontalconf talk on Excessive Enhancement. http://t.co/fjcU28YI

Celibatman: Tron : Legacy - Graphic interface and design : http://t.co/eKyXRl3B

When transitioning systems, sometimes you have to build a little scaffolding. At Instagram, we recently had to do just that: for legacy reasons, we need to keep around a mapping of about 300 million photos back to the user ID that created them, in order to know which shard to query (see more info…

I grew up as an only child, with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif. I hoped he would be rich and kind and would come into our lives (and our not yet furnished apartment) and help us. Later, after I’d met…

The "phone stage" (blue-bordered box) contains all 6 "slides" of the animation sequence and has a transition css property with a duration and timing function (a cubic bezier curve). For the phone stage to cycle from one slide to the next, its css transform property is updated with new translate and…

October 23, 2011 12:14 PM Steve Jobs was already gravely ill with cancer when he asked author Walter Isaacson to write his biography. Jobs told Isaacson to write a honest book - about his failings and his strengths. Steve Kroft reports. 43:09 October 23, 2011 13:07 October 23, 2011 13:00 October 23,…

Language detection with Google's Compact Language Detector Google's Chrome browser has a useful translate feature, where it detects the language of the page you've visited and if it differs from your local language, it offers to translate it. Wonderfully, Google has open-sourced most of Chrome's…

When it comes to finding stuff, there's Google — and there's everyone else. Photo: Mauricio Alejo Want to know how Google is about to change your life? Stop by the Ouagadougou conference room on a Thursday morning. It is here, at the Mountain View, California, headquarters of the world’s most…

In early fall, we'll be launching our new home: The Verge. Sign up there for updates on the project! I’m sitting in an anonymous, fluorescently-lit office on the Google campus where the Android team is situated, a surprisingly bare setting that seems to clash with the rest of the company’s,…

While some folk will argue that verbose code aids readability, I think almost the opposite, and in this post I’m going to list some basic tips for minimising redundant clutter in your code. JavaScript is a fun language at its core — it’s worth learning the tiny details. I hope this post is useful to…

Is the most popular, somehow pointless, and often funny gist of these days. It's about Dart, the JavaScript alternative proposed by Google. Why So Many Lines Of Code The reason a simple "Hello World" contains such amount of code is because: the whole library core is included and not…

The Siri application released with the iPhone 4s has the potential to radically impact how we interact with technology. Ed Wrenbeck, former lead developer from Siri, talks through his history with the app… On March 24th, 2008 I first talked with my friend Darren about a new venture he was involved…

One of my most vivid memories from school was the day our chemistry teacher let us in on the Big Secret: every chemical reaction is a joining or separating of links between atoms. Which links form or break is completely governed by the energy involved and the number of electrons each atom has. The…

Editor's note: This article appeared in the May 23, 2011 issue of Fortune magazine. A shorter version of it originally appeared on Fortune.com on May 9, 2011. FORTUNE -- Apple doesn't often fail, and when it does, it isn't a pretty sight at 1 Infinite Loop. In the summer of 2008, when Apple launched…

That Steve Jobs was a genius, a giant influence on multiple industries and billions of lives, has been written many times since he retired as Apple’s CEO in August. He was a historical figure on the scale of a Thomas Edison or a Henry Ford, and set the mold for many other corporate leaders in many…

Do you know what value will be alerted if the following is executed as a JavaScript program? If it surprises you that the answer is "10", then this one will probably really throw you for a loop: Here, of course, the browser will alert "1". So what's going on here? While it might seem strange,…

Often we want to load a CSS file on-demand by inserting a link node. And we want to know when the file finished loading in order to call a callback function for example. Long story short: turns out this is harder than it should be and really unnecessary hard in Firefox. I hereby beg on behalf of…

Home > Tutorials > How Browsers Work: Behind the Scenes of Modern Web Browsers Your browser may not support all of the functionality used in this article. Your browser appears to support all of the functionality used in this article. This comprehensive primer on the internal operations of WebKit and…

With more than 25 photos & 90 likes every second, we store a lot of data here at Instagram. To make sure all of our important data fits into memory and is available quickly for our users, we’ve begun to shard our data—in other words, place the data in many smaller buckets, each holding a part of the…

More than 5,000 of you nominated. More than 60,000 of you voted. And now the results are in. The winners of NPR's Top 100 Science-Fiction and Fantasy survey are an intriguing mix of classic and contemporary titles. Over on NPR's pop culture blog, Monkey See, you can find one fan's thoughts on how…

I've long lost count of how many web sites I've built. You'd think after having built a few hundred of them I'd have discovered the "one true way" of doing it. I don't think there is one true way. What I have discovered are techniques that can keep CSS more organized and more structured, leading to…