A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
favicon.ico and redirect links as a privacy leakWithout your consent most major web platforms leak whether you are logged in. This allows any website to detect on which platforms you’re signed up. Since there are lots of platforms with specific demographics an attacker could reason about your personality, too. The attack works by loading in a website’s redirect script, with its favicon …
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Yesterday Ana Tudor wondered if should could write CSS selectors using less-than and greater-than logic: CSS attribute selector wish:[data-code>2][data-code<19] { /* styles */ }[data-code>=19][data-code<65] { /* other styles */ }and so on… — Ana Tudor (@anatudor) October 12, 2016 Unfortunately this kind of selectors don’t work (yet). Until then one could use JavaScript to tackling …
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In the spirit of You Might Not Need jQuery, and just like You Don’t Need JavaScript, the website “You Might Not Need JavaScript” contains a truckload of examples with CSS alternatives for interface components that are typically built with/powered by JavaScript. JavaScript is great, and by all means use it, while also being aware that …
Today, Facebook – in collaboration with Google and others – released Yarn, a new package manager for JavaScript. Introducing Yarn: a new package manager for JavaScript from @fbOpenSource, @tildeio, @googledevs & @exponentjs. https://t.co/2LfN5OXjOv — Yarn (@yarnpkg) October 11, 2016 In comparison to npm, the Yarn website pushes these three main benefits forwards: Speed Reliability Security …
Starting August 1st, Louise Delage has been posting photos to her Instagram account. The 25 year old Parisian collected over 50,000 likes in just eight weeks. But did her followers even know what they were liking? Like my addiction A video posted by Louise Delage (@louise.delage) on Sep 22, 2016 at 2:07am PDT The end …
I’ve been hearing great things about Jest lately. It’s worth checking it out: Jest is a JavaScript testing framework, used by Facebook to test all JavaScript code including React applications. Install Jest using npm (along with some extra Babel presets if you’re writing ES2015 – Don’t forget to configure Babel using .babelrc to use the …
Git is hard: screwing up is easy, and figuring out how to fix your mistakes is fucking impossible. […] Here are some bad situations I’ve gotten myself into, and how I eventually got myself out of them in plain english*. Provides solutions (commands) to scenarios such as “Oh shit, I accidentally committed something to master …