Four short links: 26 November 2019
Extending HTTP, Headless Chrome, Election Security, and a Rewrite Horror Story
- Braid — a set of extensions to HTTP which transform it from a state transfer protocol into a state synchronization protocol. When a resource is changed by one client or server, all other clients and servers update. Braid supports Operational Transform and CRDTs at web URLs, enabling peer-to-peer, offline-capable web applications. Interesting idea to extend HTTP rather than build it on top of HTTP.
- browserless Chrome — a web-service that allows for remote clients to connect, drive, and execute headless work, all inside of docker. It offers first-class integrations for puppeteer, selenium’s webdriver, and a slew of handy REST APIs for doing more common work.
- A Short Reading List on Election Security (Matt Blaze) — very short: it fits in a single tweet.
- An Etsy Rewrite Horror Story (Dan McKinley) — It was around this time that everyone got fired. My favorite genre of Twitter thread: the software development nightmare.
