I assume at least some of this growth in number of employees comes from Twilio acquiring Segment in late 2020: https://www.twilio.com/press/releases/twilio-completes-acqui...

Google's issue tracker: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/154820090

And tweet confirming the downtime: https://twitter.com/googlemaps/status/1253419390046834691

Also, for _js without numbers_, this is the most compact way to write something that evaluates to the number 2: -~!""

If you're not limited to 'production' javascript, code golfing sites like http://dwitter.net will be a good source of strange javascript!

It must be supposed to say 10 years after first known collision of SHA-1 or something.

Google Hangouts in Firefox use a plugin, but in Google Chrome they use WebRTC.

Hi, one of the Zombocam creators here!

We've created this browser extension with support for all browsers that implement WebRTC and WebGL, and are currently waiting to also be accepted into addons.mozilla.org!

Any feedback is greatly appreciated :)

I'm curious about the story behind Zombocam's development.

So how many of these things have been changed since the article was published 1,5 years ago?

After looking through my settings, more or less all of them, with the exception of cache management, it seems.

Yes. And there was - on HN - much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Very often in web development, the kind of performance Go or Java delivers just isn't necessary. You'll often find that the time you spend on developing new features is much more important, and with python I think this can be significantly less.