A crash course on some of the protocols used in Mastodon, and StatusNet in general. (more…)

WebAssembly is an exciting new language that many JavaScript engines have added support for. WebAssembly promises to make it much easier to compile languages like C and C++ to something that runs in the browser. However, I'm most excited about the ability... (more…)

Windows 32-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v7.8.0/node-v7.8.0-x86.msi Windows 64-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v7.8.0/node-v7.8.0-x64.msi Windows 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v7.8.0/win-x86/node.exe Windows 64-bit Binary: https:/... (more…)

There are many ways to run servers and plenty of cloud platforms to do so. To start this tutorial series I am going to go with managing an EC2 server using AWS (Amazon Web Services), which is down to…...

<p>I can't vouch for either of these, personally, but if you're hell-bent on doing the work in-process, there have been a couple of independent implementations of the WebWorkers API for node, as listed on the node modules page:</p> (more…)