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WebKit と Safari のバージョン比較表

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_version_history

Convert WebKit Changeset to WebKit Version

http://bedienungsanleitung.elektronotdienst-nuernberg.de/webkit-changeset.html

This gist has moved to a proper git repo so people can make pull requests: https://github.com/Zenexer/internet-reference/blob/main/Mac%20Keyboard%20Symbols.md

Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.

Edit — February 2019

This gist had a far larger impact than I imagined it would, and apparently people are still finding it, so a quick update:

TC39 is currently moving forward with a slightly different version of TLA, referred to as 'variant B', in which a module with TLA doesn't block sibling execution. This vastly reduces the danger of parallelizable work happening in serial and thereby delaying startup, which was the concern that motivated me to write this gist
In the wild, we're seeing (async main(){...}()) as a substitute for TLA. This completely eliminates the blocking problem (yay!) but it's less powerful, and harder to statically analyse (boo). In other words the lack of TLA is causing real problems
Therefore, a version of TLA that solves the original issue is a valuable addition to the language, and I'm in full support of the current proposal, which you can read here.

I'll leave the rest of this document unedited, for archaeological

Dynamic module loading done right

Follow-up to Top-level await is a footgun – maybe read that first

Here are some things I believe to be true:

Static module syntax is beneficial in lots of ways – code is easier to write (you get better linting etc) and easier to optimise (tree-shaking and other things that are only really possible with static syntax), and most importantly, faster to load (it's trivial for a module loader to load multiple dependencies concurrently when they're declared with a static syntax – not so with imperative statements like require(...) or await import(...)).
App startup time is perhaps when performance is most critical. (You already know this, I don't need to cite the studies.)
If you're in favour of constructs that jeopardise app startup time, you are anti-user. Top-level await is such a construct.

Why imperative imports are slower than declarative imports

A lot of people misunderstood Top-level await is a footgun, including me. I thought the primary danger was that people would be able to put things like AJAX requests in their top-level await expressions, and that this was terrible because await strongly encourages sequential operations even though a lot of the asynchronous activity we're talking about should actually happen concurrently.

But that's not the worst of it. Imperative module loading is intrinsically bad for app startup performance, in ways that are quite subtle.

Consider an app like this:

// main.js

Non-deterministic module ordering is an even bigger footgun

Update – in the comments below, @bmeck clarifies that statically imported modules do evaluate in a deterministic sequential order, contra the Hacker News comments that prompted this gist.

Another follow-up to Top-level await is a footgun. On the Hacker News comments, Domenic says this:

(The argument also seems to be predicated on some fundamental misunderstandings, in that it thinks everything would have to be sequentialized. See my other replies throughout this thread.)

In other words, if you have an app like this...

	Per https://code.google.com/p/v8/codesearch#v8/trunk/src/runtime.cc


	%CreateSymbol
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	%CreateGlobalPrivateSymbol
	%NewSymbolWrapper
	%SymbolDescription
	%SymbolRegistry
	%SymbolIsPrivate

	#region License
	/* FNA GameWindow for System.Windows.Forms Example
	* Written by Ethan "flibitijibibo" Lee
	* http://www.flibitijibibo.com/
	*
	* Released under public domain.
	* No warranty implied; use at your own risk.
	*/
	#endregion

	// ==UserScript==
	// @name Nice Reddit
	// @namespace com.prahladyeri.userscripts.nice_reddit
	// @creator [email protected]
	// @description Beautify your Reddit!
	// @homepage http://www.prahladyeri.com
	// @include http://.reddit.com/
	// @include https://.reddit.com/
	// @require http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js
	// @version 1.2