Changelog·4yFirefox is the Only Alternative
Almost all browsers these days are built on top of Chromium, Chrome's open-source version. Chrome and Safari control about 85% of the browser market share. Microsoft’s Edge commands only about 4%. Firefox is the only alternative to a complete Chrome hegemony. Google are going to be in complete control of web standards unless something drastically changes.
It's Foss·5yGoogle Chrome vs Chromium: What’s the difference?
Chromium is not an open-source web browser. Google Chrome adds proprietary code to Chromium, making Chrome a proprietary browser. Chromium comes with built-in support for high-quality media codecs. Netflix doesn’t work in Chromium by default.
TechCrunch·5yMicrosoft launches Google Wave – TechCrunch
Microsoft is bringing back Google Wave, the doomed real-time messaging and collaboration platform Google launched in 2009 and prematurely shuttered in 2010. Microsoft Wave Loop is a new app — and concept — that takes the Fluid framework, which provides developers with flexible components to mix and match.
Torque·5y28 Best Tools for Freelancers (2021): Keep Your Business on Track
Some of the best tools for freelancers tackle several key categories. These include organization, time-tracking, communication, productivity, invoicing, and more. It’s really a matter of saving time in all aspects of business, not just when completing projects. If you can find tools that reduce the time spent on handling finances, scheduling meetings, and communicating with clients, you should probably jump at the opportunity.
Quastor Daily·4yAn Introduction to Big Data Architectures
This week we’re talking about the different types of workloads a big data architecture has to solve for. We also have a solution to our last coding interview question, plus a new question from Facebook. Plus, a couple awesome tech snippets on How Slack created a ReactJS analytics logging library Robert Morris’ lectures on distributed systems.
Hashnode·5yI made my website rank by accident
On 27 June 2021, I wrote an article about moving from GIF to video format. This article was purely written to make my website faster. These pages I changed became so much faster, so I was happy. But then, I was checking my Google Search Console and noticed the following.
Google Cloud·5yGoogle Maps Platform launches new website
Google is rolling out a new website experience, at https://mapsplatform.google.com, to help you better understand the products and solutions best suited to address your objectives. For more than 15 years, developers have used Google Maps Platform to deliver location-based experiences to their end users.
