A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Sean Coone got hacked last week. Even with 2FA enabled, hackers got in … because his phone number got transferred to a rogue device: My personal identity was hacked last week. The attacker was able to steal $100k+ in a sweep of my Coinbase account. I’m equal parts embarrassed, hurt, and deeply remorseful. In an …
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One of the (Symfony based) PHP projects I’m working on contains a form which allows the user to generate video clips from CCTV footage. To do this the user can enter a start and stop DateTime. For this to work the submitted input data is then checked: both start and stop must be dates, and …
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I like this mouse trail effect by Noah Yamamoto. Implementation is in React, but don’t let that put you off … “you got this” 😉 JavaScript Mouse Trail Effect →
George R.R. Martin, on his blog “Not a Blog”, now that the final episode of Game of Thrones has aired: I’m writing. Winter is coming, I told you, long ago… and so it is. THE WINDS OF WINTER is very late, I know, I know, but it will be done. I won’t say when, I’ve …
Speaking of IE in the previous post: Microsoft just (officially) released the first preview builds for Microsoft Edge for macOS, which uses the Chromium rendering engine internally. Although I don’t use my Mac’s Touch Bar – I’ve got set it to always show the full control strip – I really like how they’ve linked it …
Great read on how a few YouTube engineers bypassed the internal Google politics in order to abolish IE6 from their list of supported browsers: One idea rose to the surface that quickly captured everyone’s attention. Instead of outright dropping IE6 support, what if we just threatened to? How would users react? Would they revolt against …
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Nice new addition by Packagist: If you’re selling PHP packages, the easiest way to offer Composer package installation to your customers is now “Private Packagist for Vendors”. You get a unique URL and authentication token for each customer and they can use these in their composer.json file to install your packages. Especially if you’re still …
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Data Visualization Engineer Susie Lu wondered: how can viz be integrated into everyday experiences?. This is what they did with the classical grocery store receipt: Wow, that’s … great! 😔 Unfortunately we all know that stores won’t do this, as it will lead to people to be more aware of what they are spending, and …
To truncate multiline text in CSS, Safari introduced -webkit-line-clamp a long time ago (first mentions I found date back to 2010). .line-clamp-3 { /* Required declarations: */ overflow: hidden; display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; /* Limit the text block to three lines */ -webkit-line-clamp: 3; } By now the property has been standardised as line-clamp. Firefox …
