A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Simplistic strength estimation gives bad advice. Without checking for common patterns, the practice of encouraging numbers and symbols means encouraging passwords that might only be slightly harder for a computer to crack, and yet frustratingly harder for a human to remember. zxcvbn, named after a crappy password, is a JavaScript password strength estimation library. Use …
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In a world of WebGL, WebRTC and other fancy web APIs that start with “Web”, requestAutocomplete is rather unglamorous. However, it’s a superhero in beige clothing. A tiny, boring API that can stick a stake through the heart of the web payments time-vampire. requestAutocomplete – take my money, not my time →
position:sticky; polyfillCSS position: sticky; is really in its infancy in terms of browser support. In stock browsers, it is currently only available in iOS 6. In Chrome it is locked behind a chrome://flags setting. Fixed-sticky is a polyfill to enabling this in browsers that don’t support it yet. position: sticky; is one very handy addition to …
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// Save a file in the FileSystem. function saveFile(filename, content) { filesystem.root.getFile(filename, {create: true}, function(fileEntry) { fileEntry.createWriter(function(fileWriter) { fileWriter.onwriteend = function(e) { // Update the file browser. listFiles(); // Clean out the form field. filenameInput.value = ”; contentTextArea.value = ”; // Show a saved message. messageBox.innerHTML = ‘File saved!’; }; fileWriter.onerror = function(e) { console.log(‘Write …
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Don’t agree wholeheartedly with the flexible hours (you need some time where the whole team is together), but do agree with the unlimited paid time off policy. I for one have a job with flexible/concentrated hours which result in a 1.5 days “not behind the desk” where I can plan my time in a manner …
alpha_auth_check itself is a fairly simple function. It does a few strstr’s and strcmp’s against some pointers in the http_request_t structure, then calls check_login, which actually does the authentication check. It is the final strcmp however, which proves to be the most compelling: This is performing a strcmp between the string pointer at offset 0xD0 …