Bookmarks (issue 4)

Go 1.19beta1. As usual, lots of good improvements in the language’s runtime and the compiler, with one particularly interesting addition being the new “knob” runtime/debug.SetMemoryLimit.

How to use gender-neutral language at work and in life (Grammarly). “Luckily, the English language is relatively gender-neutral in many respects” [at least, when compared to Russian and German languages].

Meet passkeys (Apple) and Everything you want to know about WebAuthn (OktaDev). As you can guess, I’m very excited with Apple stepping onto the path to a passwordless future, while betting on WebAuthn standard.

Replace CAPTCHAs with Private Access Tokens (Apple), Private Access Tokens: stepping into the privacy-respecting, CAPTCHA-less future we were promised (Fastly), Private Access Tokens: eliminating CAPTCHAs on iPhones and Macs with open standards (Cloudflare).