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  • Dweb: Building a Resilient Web with WebTorrent

    The web is healthy when the financial cost of self-expression isn’t a barrier. This installment of the Dweb series describes WebTorrent – an implementation of the BitTorrent protocol that runs in a web browser. It’s written completely in JavaScript – the language of the web – and uses WebRTC for ...

    Posted by Feross Aboukhadijeh

  • MDN Changelog for July 2018: CDN tests, Goodbye Zones, and BCD

    Editor’s note: A changelog is “a log or record of all notable changes made to a project. [It] usually includes records of changes such as bug fixes, new features, etc.” Publishing a changelog is kind of a tradition in open source, and a long-time practice on the web. We thought ...

    Posted by John Whitlock

  • AV1 and the Video Wars of 2027

    This post imagines a dystopian future where only the rich can stream video to their homes, and the democratizing forces of the internet have crumbled under corruption and greed. The author reports back from a troubled future in the late 2020s that is wholly fictitious. The open video codec AV1 ...

    Posted by Judy DeMocker

  • Dweb: Social Feeds with Secure Scuttlebutt

    Scuttlebutt is a free and open source social network with unique offline-first and peer-to-peer properties. Mainstream closed platforms have become a more popular way of creating and consuming content than the Web. Instead of attempting to adapt existing Web technologies for the mobile social era, Scuttlebutt offers a new platform ...

    Posted by André Staltz

  • Things Gateway 0.5 packed full of new features, including experimental smart assistant

    The Things Gateway from Mozilla lets you directly monitor and control your home over the web, without a middleman. The 0.5 release of the Things Gateway is packed full of new features including customizable devices, a more powerful rules engine, an interactive floor plan, and an experimental smart assistant you ...

    Posted by Ben Francis

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