Sat.Jun 29, 2013 - Fri.Jul 05, 2013

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For Jo

Alex Russell

This was originally drafted as response to [Jo Rabin’s blog post] discussing a meetup the W3C TAG hosted last month. For some reason, I was having difficulty adding comments there. Hi Jo, Thanks for the thoughtful commentary, and for the engaging chat at the meetup. Your post mirrors some of my own thinking about what the TAG can be good for. I can’t speak for everyone on the TAG, but like me, most of the new folks who have joined have backgrounds as web developers.

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Why I'll Be Marching This 4th

Nick Desaulniers

If you’ve done nothing wrong, then you’ve got nothing to hide. Wrong. Nothing ever justifies giving up your human rights , especially to prove lack of wrong doing, and any government that asks you to do so is not your friend. Terrorism has become a weapon used against us by those elected to lead to keep us compliant, like blinders you’d put on a horse.

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How SpeedCurve fits into your web performance toolkit

Speed Curve

Over the last few years the web performance monitoring toolset has expanded dramatically with the introduction of many new services and products. There are two main types of web performance monitoring, uptime monitoring and real user monitoring. SpeedCurve focuses on a third which I like to call web performance benchmarking. Uptime Monitoring. Uptime services like Pingdom and Uptime Robot ping your website with an HTTP request every couple of minutes to check that it's online and available.