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• Fearless Security: Thread Safety

  Multithreading allows programs to do more faster, but adds synchronization bugs and attacks. Programming languages have evolved different concurrency strategies to help developers manage both the performance and security challenges of multi-threaded applications. Diane Hosfelt explores the challenges of thread safety, and the approach that Rust takes. The post Fearless ...

  Posted February 14, 2019 by Diane Hosfelt

• Anyone can create a virtual reality experience with this new WebVR starter kit from Mozilla and Glitch

  Building a virtual reality experience may seem daunting, but it really isn’t. WebVR and frameworks like A-Frame make it easy to get started right. This is why we worked with Glitch to create a WebVR starter kit. Today we introduce a free, 5-part video course with interactive code examples that ...

  Posted February 12, 2019 by Dan Brown

• Refactoring MDN macros with async, await, and Object.freeze()

  In January, the MDN engineering team landed a major refactoring of the KumaScript codebase, the underlying Node server that runs macros in Kuma, which is the wiki that powers MDN. This work included some modern techniques of interest to JavaScript programmers. The post Refactoring MDN macros with async, await, and ...

  Posted February 07, 2019 by David Flanagan

• Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio

  Unsolicited volume can be a great source of distraction and frustration for users of the web. So we are making changes to how Firefox handles playing media with sound and we want to make sure web developers are aware of this new audio autoplay blocking default. With the release of ...

  Posted February 04, 2019 by Chris Pearce

• New in Firefox DevTools 65

  We just released Firefox 65 with a number of new developer features that make it even easier for you to create, inspect and debug the web. Among all the features and bug fixes that made it to DevTools in this new release, we particularly want to highlight our brand new ...

  Posted January 31, 2019 by Martin Balfanz