Bleeding Edge Web: July 2019

News From the Bleeding Edge

— Corey Butler (@goldglovecb)

Building Telecom Apps with Node.js

— Ted Patrick (@__ted__)

Get Hired, Guaranteed

— Brian Moeskau (@bmoeskau)

Housekeeping

• Speakers and sponsors always wanted (edgeATX.org for details)
• Remember your parking validation
• Omni hotel bar (downstairs) after meetup
• Who is Hiring? Who is Available?

Browser Pop Quiz

Last check: June 20, 2019:

75	67	18*	12.1

Browser Pop Quiz

As of July 18, 2019:

75	67 68	18*	12.1

Firefox 68

• WebRender MVP (Windows): GPU-based Acceleration
• Windows BITS: Update when FF is closed.
• Attempt to auto-fix TLS (HTTPS) errors caused by Antivirus
• Camera/Microphone support require TLS (HTTPS)
• <meta http-equiv="set-cookie"> no longer supported
• CSS Scroll Snapping

Raspberry Pi 4

Your tiny, dual-display, desktop computer

• Released June 24th ($35-55)
• 3x performance, up to 4GB of RAM, dual 4K support
• New OS (Debian 10) + Chromium 74 included
• Completely backwards compatible

Releases

• npm 6.10.1 (fixes many issues), 6.10.2 due next week
• Node ES Module Support
• Babel 7.5.0 (supports imports & F# style pipeline operator)
• React Native 0.60
• QuickJS - an embeddable JS engine in C (ES2019 Compliant)

Track This

• In June Firefox turned on enhanced tracking protection by default
• Previously they released the Facebook Container browser add-on
• Now they created Track This to demo why these are important

Hedge Funds

Robots Exclusion Protocol

• First proposed in 1994 by Martijn Koster
• De facto standard used by ~500,000,000 websites
• Google officially submitted it to the IETF with improvements
• They also open sourced Googlebot's robots.txt parser

Cloudflare Outage

• All Cloudflare-proxied domains went down on July 2
• Cause: bad deployment of a single firewall regex rule
• Resulted in 100% CPU spike across all proxy servers worldwide
• Cloudflare's on-call support guy that day:

MDN --> React

• The beta version of MDN uses React

British £50

• Announced Alan Turing will be the face

Do you know npm?

• This article provides a stark look at npm
• There are now 960K packages in npm
• 28% of npm modules are orphans but only 7% of respondents knew that
• Avg package dependency chain: 4.39 deep
• 61% of packages haven't been updated in last 12 months

Daimler Trucks North America Hackathon

• July 19-21
• First Place: $10K
• Travel Stipend for non-Austin residents

Dropbox Developer Build Day

• July 31 9am-7pm
• Held at Dropbox Office on 501 Congress
• Free breakfast, lunch, happy hour
• Free sessions on Dropbox API's (like Dropbox, HelloSign, Moleskine)

Thanks!

https://edgeATX.org/slides

Corey Butler (@goldglovecb)