A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Sparked by an idea by Wes Bos, John Papa has created and released a first version of Cloak: Cloak hides/shows your secrets in environment files, to avoid accidentally sharing them with everyone who sees your screen. Handy when doing screencasts and the like. Do note that it only visually hides the secrets, no changes are …
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In this article, we will focus on the security side of the framework. We will be dividing the article into the following sections: Securing app to server connection Securing local data Advanced integrity checks Securing React Native Applications →
In case you were still in doubt after this SIM port horror story from back in May: We examined the authentication procedures used by five prepaid wireless carriers when a customer attempts to change their SIM card, or SIM swap. We found that all five carriers use insecure authentication challenges that can easily be subverted …
With the release of “Edgium”, all major browsers now support Web Components. An effort 9 years in the making, but we’ve finally made it. WebComponents are supported natively in every major browser pic.twitter.com/6yPoTXno27 — Polymer Project (@polymer) January 15, 2020 Perfect time to link to this by Viljami Salminen in which he makes the case …
This XKCD comic is right up my alley: The projection does a good job preserving both distance and azimuth, at the cost of really exaggerating how many South Americas there are. 😂 Bad Map Projection: South America →
Mark Steadman from Deque: React can be an accessible application framework with the right knowledge and the right know-how. The stigma that it is not an accessible framework is simply not true. It has some of the best built-in accessibility functionality there is out there, and a large community of accessibility advocates that are creating …
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Two days ago, Microsoft released their new Edge browser — the one based on Chromium. Apart from a huge change in web features support it also pushes its privacy features – the new “Browser War” – forward. With this release the version numbering also jumped from 18 to the Chromium version number it is based …
Matthew Gerstman explaining a lot of terms that evolve around JavaScript: ECMA, TC39, Babel, Polyfills, … So you Google how to make your app work in IE 10, or 11, or whatever. You’re quickly flooded with acronyms and terms you’ve never heard before ES5, ES6, ESNext, ES2020, TC39, ECMA. What’s a transpiler? People are debating …
Today I needed to debug an IMAP problem. I got reports from a user (whose password I recently rotated) that Outlook wouldn’t connect, even though they had updated the password in Outlook’s settings. Checking things on the server I noticed that the connection to the server was made, but the login attempt always failed. As …
git squash-all
Freek just shared his workflow to squash all git commits into one single commit — Handy for when you’re pushing a first public release of a project. His process involves removing the .git folder and starting off fresh again with a git init. Wondering if there are handier/shorter ways to achieve this I set off …
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