Show HN: Socket.js, a tiny WebSockets library for Node.js

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Socket.js is a real-time communication framework for Node.js powered by WebSockets. It has no dependencies. Socket.js is lightweight. The minified client is under 3kb. Contrast this with socket.io, which is 95kb minified. But it's not a fair comparison.…

22 January 2016

Deployer – A Deployment Tool for PHP

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A deployment tool written in PHP with support for popular frameworks out of the box. * Ready to use recipes for most frameworks * Something went wrong? Rollback to the previous release Deployer is a cli tool for deployment of any PHP applications,…

22 January 2016

Automated image testing with Verified Pixel

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Verifying the authenticity of a digital image is no simple task, given the array of image-manipulation tools available and the difficulty inherent in tracing the provenance of any digital file. But attempting to establish the origin and veracity of a photo…

21 January 2016

AWS Launch Alert: SSL/TLS Certificate Manager

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Just as I was getting ready to post an introduction to using LetsEncrypt on CloudFront and scheduling renewals with Lambda, AWS released a new service: AWS Certificate Manager or ACM. ACM issues SSL certificates, handles renewal automatically, and…

21 January 2016

J2ObjC 1.0 Release

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The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs.

21 January 2016

Thanks for Trumpet Winsock

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Do you remember connecting to the Internet in 1994 or 1995? Those of you do probably remember Trumpet Winsock. That little blue-and-gold icon turned your modem from a BBS-ringing machine into an Internet-connecting machine. What you probably didn’t know…

20 January 2016