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The Case Against Synchronous Worker APIs 15 May 2013 | 02:28 pm
Several times in the past few months I’ve been presented with this question: is it good or useful to provide synchronous APIs to web workers? Having considered the question at some length, it seems to...
Why What You’re Reading About Blink Is Probably Wrong 3 Apr 2013 | 10:00 pm
By now you’ve seen the news about Blink on HN or Techmeme or wherever. At this moment, every pundit and sage is attempting to write their angle into the annoucement and tell you “what it means”. The w...
Two Governments, Both Alike In Dignity 2 Apr 2013 | 04:41 pm
Disclaimer: I’m engaged to Frances Berriman, the front-end lead at the UK’s Government Digital Service. She did not approve this post. It is, however, the product of many of our discussions. You’ll un...
Cassowary on NPM 4 Feb 2013 | 02:48 pm
I continue to work on-and-off on the JS Cassowary port and now, thanks to some help from Isaac, new packages are up on NPM. The API is still marginally unstable and I expect we’ll be undergoing re-lic...
Reforming the W3C TAG 7 Dec 2012 | 12:24 pm
And so it has come to pass that W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) elections are afoot. Nominations have ended and the candidates have been announced. There are four seats open and nine candidates...
Origin(al) Sins 4 Dec 2012 | 01:01 pm
Video from a talk I gave in October at OWASP’s AppSec USA conference — something of a departure from my usual speil — is now up: Origin(al) Sins – Alex Russell from OWASP AppSec USA on Vimeo. I made s...
Layers of Confusion 23 Nov 2012 | 12:12 pm
I missed a Plus post by Ian Hickson back from August but I saw it today through the magic of the twitters. It contains quite a lot to quibble about, but I want to home in on something he wrote in the ...
Bits and Remainders 16 Nov 2012 | 06:13 pm
I’ve been working on an epically-long blog post on the Offline problem for something like two months now and it’s still not done. That’s not so much to tease as warn you; Frances thinks I should post ...
Election Season 6 Nov 2012 | 08:44 pm
So election season is upon us — no, not that one — elections for the W3C’s Technical Architecture Group (TAG). You might be thinking to yourself “self, I didn’t know the W3C had such a thing…how very ...
Inadmissible Arguments 15 Aug 2012 | 06:16 pm
I spend a lot of time working in, on, and around web standards. As a part of this work, several bogus perspectives are continuously deployed to defend preferred solutions. I hereby call bullshit on th...
