A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
An XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability was found on the Facebook Careers page by Mohamed Ramadan. The OWASP XXE Definition reads: An XML External Entity attack is a type of attack against an application that parses XML input. This attack occurs when XML input containing a reference to an external entity is processed by a …
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Reqres simulates real application scenarios. If you want to test a user authentication system, Reqres will respond to a successful login/register request with a token for you to identify a sample user, or with a 403 forbidden response to an unsuccessful login/registration attempt. Great to see an initiative like this. Nearly three years ago I …
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MetricsGraphics.js is a library built on top of D3 that is optimized for visualizing and laying out time-series data. It provides a simple way to produce common types of graphics in a principled, consistent and responsive way. The library currently supports line charts, scatterplots and histograms as well as features like rug plots and basic …
My name is Bramus and I approve this message: We, the Chrome Security Team, propose that user agents (UAs) gradually change their UX to display non-secure origins as affirmatively non-secure. We intend to devise and begin deploying a transition plan for Chrome in 2015. The goal of this proposal is to more clearly display to …
A series of posts in line with the aforementioned You might not need jQuery, From jQuery to Javascript, a reference, and I know jQuery, now what?. Essentially nothing new, yet linking to because it has all handy snippets collected in one place. One thing I do find missing from it is Element#classList. You Don’t Need …
Up until reading Flexbox Adventures I hadn’t really given much thought to how flexbox grow exactly works. If you do want to know: Available space = (Container size – Flex-basis siblings total). Flex Item size = Basis + ((Available space / Total Grow nums) * Individual grow num). A recommended read. Flexbox adventures → When …