Month: February 2017

After two years of research, Google has shown that it has successfully broken SHA-1 encryption. The company is yet to release details of how it achieved the first SHA-1 “collision”, but has released a proof of concept. View original article

Interactive Side Menu is an open source component submitted by Andrey Arzhannikov for creating interactive animated side menus with a number of customizations. Interactive Side Menu features a customizable spring animation, customizable content scale, customizable width and more. View original article

Hydraw is an open source Swift library submitted by Daniele Margutti for written better async cold partially on the Javascript A+ specs and Async/Await seen in ES8. This is an extensive library and not only provides async and await, but also many other javascript operators for asynchronous code. View original article

A huge proportion of web traffic comes from mobile devices these days, and this means people are often trying to access online articles when they have a slow data connection. For this reason, Facebook introduced Instant Articles, and Google introduced Accelerated Mobile Pages. View original article

But today’s breakthroughs would be nowhere and would not have been possible without what came before them – a fact we sometimes forget. Mainframes led to personal computers, which gave way to laptops, then tablets and smartphones, and now the Internet of Things. View original article

Superb is an open source library from Thoughtbot providing a simple API for authentication in Swift with support for multi-threading, re-authentication and more. View original article

A note from the editors: This article is part one of a two-part series exploring the new HTTP/2 protocol and using it responsibly. Be sure to read part two, Considering How We Use HTTP/2. View original article

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Google has opened its doors to iOS code for Chrome by making room in its Chromium open-source project. The Chrome for iOS code is now an open platform for coders and developers alike, to modify, experiment, and build on the app. View original article

Earlier today, The Irish Times ran an “article” titled “Brussels broke the rules in its pursuit of Apple’s €13bn”. That sounds serious, and would definitely have you click. View original article

Parse, the Back-end-as-a-Service (BaaS) offering from Facebook, is today in the final stage of its year-long shutdown, with many former users having adopted an open source version of the project. View original article