Bleeding Edge Web: July 2018

News From the Bleeding Edge

— Brian Moeskau (@bmoeskau)

Symmetric and Asymmetric Cryptography and RSA Deep Dive

— Cullen Tsering

Housekeeping

• Speakers and sponsors always wanted (edgeatx.org)
• Parking has changed!
• Omni hotel bar (downstairs) after meetup
• Anyone hiring / looking?

Browser Pop Quiz

Last check — June 21, 2018:

67	60	17	12

Browser Pop Quiz

As of July 19, 2018:

67	60 61	17	12

Firefox 61

Released June 26th —Release Notes

New APIs

• PerformanceServerTiming
• String.prototype trimStart and trimEnd
• Lots of new CSS properties and other minor APIs

Firefox 61

Developer Tools

• New Accessibility inspector
• CSS variable autocompletion
• New Cache tab
• And more

Firefox 61

Performance

• Parallelized CSS parsing
• Retained display lists

Check out the full release notes

Chrome 68

Coming soon (next week)

HTTP condemned

• Any sites still using HTTP will be marked as insecure
• This is your final warning!

ESLint v5.0.0

The pluggable linting utility for JavaScript and JSX

View the release notes

• New rules:
  • prefer-object-spread
  • max-classes-per-file
  • max-lines-per-function
• New options on some existing rules
• A few breaking changes to be aware of

Greenkeeper 3

Bot for automated dependency management

Released June 14

Monitors package deps and PRs tested updates

• v3 supports monorepos
• New greenkeeper config file
• Custom commit messages

v8n

JavaScript fluent validation library

New — Released July 14

v8n()
  .number()
  .between(0, 100)
  .even()
  .not.equal(32)
  .test(74); // true

Compromised Npm Package

• On July 12, an ESLint maintainer's npm account was hacked
• They published malicious versions of several packages
• Read the details on npm's blog or ESLint's postmortem
• TL;DR: don't reuse passwords, and enable 2FA on packages

EU Fines Google $5.1B

• For anti-competitive promotion of Android
• They must change bundling practices within 90 days
• Trend: increasing EU curtailment of US tech companies

ECMAScript 2018 / 2019

• The ES2018 spec was finalized in January, but published in June
• Also, the ES2019 spec was published a few weeks ago
• Need a refresher? Read Exploring ES2018 and ES2019

GitHub Windows 95 Edition

User style transforming GitHub into Windows 9x

Thanks!

https://edgeATX.org/slides

Brian Moeskau (@bmoeskau)