There's been a lot of discussion recently about the Facebook patent clause ("PATENTS" in Facebook repositories). While most of the objections to the license have focused on the patent revocation provisions, most of the defense focuses on the patent grant. This has meant that both sides are talking…

Great web applications boot up fast and stay silky smooth once they've started. In other contexts, applications can choose quick loading or responsiveness once they've loaded. Great games can get away with a long loading bar as long as they react instantly once the gamer gets going. In contrast, scripting…

(This post is about Yarn, a new JS package manager that was announced today.) I work with Node and npm packages almost every day, on Tilde's main app, Skylight, or on one of Ember's many packages. Many have remarked upon how fast the npm registry has grown, and it's hard…

Alex Russell posted some thoughts today about how he wishes the W3C would architect the next version of the Content Security Policy. I agree with Alex that designing CSP as a "library" that uses other browser primitives would increase its long-term utility and make it compose better with other platform…

If we want to move the web forward, we must increase our ability as web developers to extend it with new features. For years, we've grabbed the browsers extension points with two hands, not waiting for the browser vendors to gift us with new features. We built selector engines, a…

Elections for the W3C's Technical Architecture Group are underway, and I'm running! There are nine candidates for four open seats. Among the nine candidates, Alex Russell, Anne van Kesteren, Peter Linss, and Marcos Cáceres are running on a reform platform. What is the TAG, and what do I mean by…

I wrote my first post on this blog in January 2007. In 2007, this blog was the easiest way I had to write my thoughts down for people who cared to read them. I wrote long posts and short post (but mostly long posts). I wrote deeply technical posts. I…

It's been a while since I posted anything on my blog, and I figured I'd catch everyone up on the work I've been doing on Tokaido. Components Tokaido itself is made up of a number of components, which I am working on in parallel: Ruby binary build, statically compiled A…

Hey guys! Since my last update, Tokaido was fully funded, and I've been hard at work planning, researching and working on Tokaido. So far, we have a working binary build of Ruby, but no setup chrome. Because the binary build already exists, Terence Lee was able to experiment with it…

A few weeks ago, I started a kickstarter project to fund work on a project to make a long-term, sustainable binary build of Ruby. The outpouring of support was great, and I have far exceeded my original funding goal. First, I'd like to thank everyone in the community who contributed…