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My Google I/O 2019 wrap up

This year I was at my second I/O and had the huge honour to give two talks, three office hours and meet so many of you lovely folks!
Check the article for links and selfies

One of my goals this year is to help web developer get better at making their websites and web apps successful in Google Search... so we made a few codelabs for you to try out!
See our three codelabs on SEO for developers!

Google I/O 2019 - let's meet!

I will be at Google I/O this week! If you wanna meet up or talk to me, you will have many opportunities to do so! In this post I'll go over my schedule for I/O...
Find out where I will be :)

2018: A retrospective

A look back at 2018 and a few guesses for 2019.
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A new adventure

I have joined the Google Webmaster Trends Analyst team. It's an end and a new beginning!
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Writing an x86 hello world bootloader with assembly

I got an itching to finally write down, step by step, how to write a bootloader for x86... so I finally did.
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JavaScript in parallel: Web Workers, Transferrable Objects and SharedArrayBuffers

JavaScript is single-threaded, which means that long-running tasks can make our web application unresponsive. Luckily, we have Web Workers as a remedy for this - but they do require some thought on how to divide a task and how to avoid a hefty memory cost when data is copied.
This article shows how to use Web Workers and transferrable objects and a new parallel primitive: The SharedArrayBuffer. Click here to read more!

CORS - a guided tour

When making network requests in the browser to other pages or APIs, the browser enforces the Same-origin policy to protect users and their data.
But what if we want to request data from another origin? Or if we want to run an API that isn't on the same domain? Let's see what CORS is and how we can use it.
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Easy scaling with Docker, HAProxy and confd

Forrest is a very small shell script that binds together etcd and docker to allow easy scaling - for example with the combination of etcd + confd + HAProxy + Docker you can quickly and easily spin up a new web server instance and hook it into your load balancer.
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Running your meteor.js application on your own server

Meteor gives you the possibility to bundle your app as a (more or less) self-contained node.js app, you could as well run it on your own server. In this article I�ll give a quick run-through on how to do that.
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Look ma, no canvas! Server-side 3D rendering with node.js and Three.js

If you wonder if and how you can render a Three.js 3D scene using node.js on the server, you may have been thinking about using a canvas module, such as Automattic/Canvas or run a headless browser such as Phantom or even a full-blown Firefox or Chrome on xvfb.
Read more about the headless renderer here!

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