Why Google is Hurrying the Web to Kill SHA-1

Something like 90% of websites that use SSL encryption use an algorithm called SHA-1 to protect themselves from being impersonated. This guarantees that when you go to green lock for facebook.com, you’re visiting the real Facebook and not giving your password to an attacker. Unfortunately, SHA-1 is dangerously weak, and has been for a long …

The Technology behind Hyperlapse from Instagram

Hyperlapses are a special kind of time lapse where the camera is also moving. Capturing hyperlapses has traditionally been a laborious process that involves meticulous planning, a variety of camera mounts and professional video editing software. With Hyperlapse, our goal was to simplify this process. We landed on a single record button and a post-capture …

Google Chrome DevTools Device Mode

Click the icon marked with the pink-ish circle to open Device Mode. Click the icon marked with the red circle to activate the Media Query Inspector. One can quickly choose a device and also throttle the network using the blue and orange dropdowns at the top. You might have to enable Devtools Experiments in Canary …