Rob Janssen

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How Netflix gives all its engineers SSH access

Seif is an open source project, started at PayPal, with the goal of transitioning the Web into an application delivery system that will be safer and easier for developers and users.

I wanna go fast: HTTPS' massive speed advantage

HTTPS is slow. No - wait - is it HTTP that's slow?! https://t.co/T49GG7oCaK pic.twitter.com/cfnYOpXMWc In fact, a bunch of the internet was pretty upset. "It's not fair!", they cried. "You're comparing apples and oranges!", they raged.

Microsoft Ships Python Code... in 1996

My thanks go to Guido for allowing me to share my own history of Python! I'll save my introduction to Python for another post, but the end result was its introduction into a startup that I co-founded in 1991 with several people.

api-guidelines/Guidelines.md at master · Microsoft/api-guidelines · GitHub

The Microsoft REST API Guidelines, as a design principle, encourages application developers to have resources accessible to them via a RESTful HTTP interface.

joepie91's Ramblings

This may not sound that bad - after all, they're just a service provider, right? - but let's put this in context for a moment. Currently, CloudFlare essentially controls 11% of the 10k biggest websites, over 8% of the 100k biggest websites (source), and almost 5% of sites on the entire web (source).

June 2016 (version 1.3)

We're really excited about the June release of VS Code. We've made some big changes to Extension management (dedicated Extensions View) and added Tabs (tabbed editor panes). Other new features include global Search and Replace, improved Drag and Drop and optional indentation guides.

Good coding instincts will eventually kick you in the teeth

I wrote my first few lines of code almost 32 years ago, when I was 6 years old. I developed very strong coding instincts. I could look at any problem and immediately know how to solve it, just by intuition. By the time I started coding the web for a living, I felt like a rock star.

Surviving The Dreaded Company Framework

This week, I’m making it two in a row with a reader question.  Today’s question is about an internal company framework and how to survive it.

The Languages Which Almost Became CSS

When HTML was announced by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991 there was no method of styling pages. How given HTML tags were rendered was determined by the browser, often with significant input from the user’s preferences.

AngularJS Authentication and CORS · GitHub

Single Page Apps are ruling the world and AngularJS is leading the charge. But many of the lessons we learned in the Web 2.0 era no longer apply, and few are as drastically different as authentication. CORS is an oft-misunderstood feature of new browsers that is configured by a remote server.

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