The Fetch API might seem new to some, but it’s already five years old with browsers rolling out support in 2015. It was a replacement for the dated XMLHttpRequest which was tedious to work with and a relic of the yesteryear of internet.
Still, all of these years one feature that is available in XMLHttpRequest is the ability to handle file upload progress, missing from the Fetch specification and we are now in the year 2020, almost 2021 and still, there is no across the board way to handle file upload progress. This is the last missing piece before Fetch can truly replace XMLHttpRequest.
But, can they run Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 at its highest settings?
The Nvidia RTX 3080 starts at $699 and the performance is being promised as twice that of the prized gaming graphics card the Nvidia RTX 2080.
If that’s not good enough for the avid hungry gamer, Nvidia also announced a new monster RTX 3090 which is double the price of the RTX 3080. The difference being, the RTX 3090 promises to support 8k gaming, nevermind the fact most people are not gaming at 4k in 2020.
Not that kind of scraping.
If you’re a developer, chances are in your career you’ve written a web scraper before. You either did it for a personal project, learning exercise or you were asked by someone else to build a scraper. My first freelancer job was a scraper on Freelancer.com years and years ago.
There is often confusion around the legality of scraping and it’s not illegal to scrape public data. This was further reinforced by the case of hiQ vs LinkedIn which ruled it is legal to scrape public data.
File this one under, “peak 2020”
Some Sony fans online are upset that the Playstation 5 console will allegedly not be backwards compatible with Playstation titles prior to Playstation 4. This means any games released for the Playstation 3 and older might not be playable.
https://twitter.com/VideoTech_/status/1300492599388786688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1300492599388786688%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.news.com.au%2Ftechnology%2Fhome-entertainment%2Fgaming%2Fplaystation%2Fplaystation-5-lack-of-backwards-compatibility-seemingly-confirmed-by-ubisoft%2Fnews-story%2Fd12d69a849e55421794a049c0199c043
The information comes from the next-gen support page on the Ubisoft website. The triggering line for Sony fans has since been deleted, quite possibly because of the backlash it seems to have generated and it now looks like this.
Well, it has barely been a day with Joe Rogan starting his new $100 million dollars multi-year deal with Spotify and already the move is already generating controversy.
Eagle-eyed fans have noticed that there are numerous existing Joe Rogan podcast episodes missing from Spotify, perhaps most notably are the infamous and highly entertaining Alex Jones episodes. A Reddit thread has compiled a list of missing names and there are some recurring guests that come up.
As some might be aware, there is currently a news war taking place in Australia. The Australian Government alongside the ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) have drafted legislation which will compel companies like Google and social media platforms such as Facebook to pay for news on their respective apps and sites.
Google recently weighed in on the issue with an open letter to Australians and now, Facebook has done the same issuing a straight-to-the-point press release about the legislation.
If you’ve been following any tech news for the last few weeks, you have probably heard about the TikTok situation unfolding in the US where Donald Trump via executive order is forcing a sale of TikTok in the US or banning it.
To say that 2020 has been a wild and unprecedented year is an understatement. TikTok has been a source of entertainment for those staying at home as the COVID-19 pandemic closes down schools, states, countries and limits movement.
Google is well and truly on a roll lately. The Chrome 85 release is jam-packed with new features including the new content visibility property which I wrote about here. Something not many might realise is that Google has experimental support in Chrome 80 for Web Bundles.
What are Web Bundles?
Essentially, it is a new file format which allows resources in a web application to be compiled into a singular file. Think images, Javascript files, CSS and other resources you might find on a webpage. They can all be packaged into a singular file and work offline.
Have you heard about Web Capabilities Project aka Project Fugu? Chances are, you probably haven’t heard about it (unless you’re reading this well into the future), but it is one of the most exciting initiatives in the web being undertaken right now. Spearheaded by Google, Microsoft, Samsung and Intel, there are some heavy hitters supporting this.
At its core, Project Fugu is an initiative to bring native application features into the web to close the gap between web applications and native applications. This means that you do not need to use a wrapper to get access to native features, further blurring the line between native and web.
Browsing my various online sites for tech news, I came across an update for Yarn, a 2.2 release for the ill-fated Yarn 2 package manager which many will attest, has been a trainwreck of biblical proportions.
I know a couple of people who have attempted to migrate from Yarn v1 to Yarn v2 and given up in the process, opting to go back to Npm. Even though Npm might not be as cool, Npm has caught up on several fronts and really, the only reason developers chose Yarn in the first place was because of the performance improvements.