The JavaScript world seems to be entering a crisis of churn rate. Frameworks and technologies are being pushed out and burned through at an unsustainable speed. But I think the community will adapt and adopt new practices in response. Developers will move, I believe, from monolithic frameworks like Angular.js and Ember to a ‘pick n …
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Crossbeat – Uprising
CROSSBEAT (Ghent, Belgium) is a musical collaboration between Sherien Holail, Frederik Van Melle and Dries Merre. Their music emphasizes deep hypnotizing basslines and vivid percussion, accompanied by atmospheric synthesizers as well as analogue instruments. Quite digging this one! The EP featuring this track is recommended. Crossbeat →
It’s All About Time: Timing attacks in PHP
$query = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = ?"; $stmt = $pdo->prepare($query); $stmt->execute([$_POST[‘id’]]); $user = $stmt->fetchObject(); if ($user && password_verify($_POST[‘password’], $user->password)) { return true; } return false; There is information leak here: If you try different user names, it will take a different amount of time depending on if the username is there or …
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Why Programmers Work at Night
Now this sounds really familiar: Keep staring at a bright source of light in the evening and your sleep cycle gets delayed. You forget to be tired until 3am. Then you wake up at 11am and when the evening rolls around you simply aren’t tired because hey, you’ve only been up since 11am! Given enough …
Sublime Text Git Plugin
Frameless – A fullscreen browser for iOS 8
JavaScript I/O (io.js)
Node.js, a popular and influential tool for building and running modern internet services, has split in two. Late yesterday, some of its primary developers “forked” this open source project, creating a new version of the tool they call Io.js. The group was unhappy with the stewardship of Node’s official sponsor, cloud computing company Joyent, so …
4K Timelapse of the Sun
JSIL – CIL to Javascript Compiler
JSIL is a compiler that transforms .NET applications and libraries from their native executable format – CIL bytecode – into standards-compliant, cross-browser JavaScript. You can take this JavaScript and run it in a web browser or any other modern JavaScript runtime. Unlike other cross-compiler tools targeting JavaScript, JSIL produces readable, easy-to-debug JavaScript that resembles the …