Saturday, 7. January 12017
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Resolve Domains Like It's 2017.

CoreDNS is a DNS server that started as a fork of Caddy. It has the same model: it chains middleware. In fact it's so similar that CoreDNS is now a server type plugin for Caddy.

Best of 2016 / Primes of 2017.

The Soviet Union Is Gone, But It’s Still Collapsing.

And 5 other unlearned lessons from leading experts about modern Russia and the death of an empire.

Late for the party again…

How to crank your progressive web app’s Google Lighthouse score up to 100.

If there’s one message the Chrome Dev Team wants to drive home to developers, it’s this: performance matters.

libraries.io – The Open Source Discovery Service.

Discover open source libraries, modules and frameworks you can use in your code.

Looooong read…

The Great A.I. Awakening.

How Google used artificial intelligence to transform Google Translate, one of its more popular services — and how machine learning is poised to reinvent computing itself.

Has the Internet Killed Curly Quotes?

Web publications often favor straight quotation marks, a pragmatic approach to typography that old-school stylists can’t stand. 

An evaluation of the Wire messaging app by a researcher in the Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) lab at the University of Waterloo.

The design of the Wire protocol as described in the whitepapers is relatively good. However, there are a few problems with the system and its specification that cause or suggest security weaknesses.

Relevant: Signal still seems to be the better alternative messaging app, top-notch regarding bypassing censorship while being highly secure. One reason is that it’s applying wicked concepts as “blocking-resistant communication through domain fronting”.

The Game Worlds We Make.

Why designing a simple board game with my son rivals anything he’s learning in school.

2017: What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known?