My firefox month: Day 1
Firefox 54 is out and I will give it a month of test driving... let's see how it goes!
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How I approach side projects
Wonder how you can turn that random idea for a little project into a result?
In this post, I outline the process I use to learn new things, build small fun stuff and make sure I don't bail out early :-)
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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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Bits and bytes in JavaScript
If you want to work with binary data in JavaScript, this article will give you an overview of working with bits and bytes in JavaScript. Diving into bit-wise operations and their uses and how to work with the pixel data from images to filter colours, the basics of binary data and bitwise operations are the goal of the exploration in this article. Click here to read more!
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.
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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.
Click here to read more!
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!