A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
The storey behind Emoji Masks: Before we both headed into the office, our eyes were glued to our analytics app. Being number 1 on Product Hunt for the day was driving insane amounts of traffic. We were pretty surprised since it was still so early in the day. Launch day ended with just over $5,000 …
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To celebrate the launch of the new Hobbit flick, we made a version of Sting that turns blue near unsecured Wi-Fi networks. And when you slash the sword, Sting will jump on the network, and publish a message: “{YOUR WI-FI NETWORK} has been vanquished!” Instructables included, source on GitHub. WarSting: A Wi-Fi scanning sword for …
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In addition to the aforementioned MySQL behaviour you should be aware of, another list pointing out flaws/quirks in MySQL. Had I knew all this from the start, maybe the ride would had been in easy mode. You can’t shake off the dirty sensation of “I have made a terrible choice” if you have to explain …
When looking at appointments today I saw a birthday appointment for someone I barely knew. Strange. I’d already deactivated iCal and Facebook birthday calendars […] But today, there was a new calendar in my Gmail group called “Birthdays”. […] Upon further investigation, I learned that the Birthday calendar displays birthdays of people in your Google+ …
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Let me introduce what I call the Chrome DevTools App. It’s a standalone app that runs Chrome DevTools in its own process. It’s powered by node-webkit, and it’s able to run on Windows, Mac and Linux, completely independently of Chrome. From the same guy who brought/is bringing us RemoteDebug. Taking Chrome DevTools outside of the …
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I MITMed Twitter for Android's login to see why it was failing. The Twitter servers think it's 2015. Amazing. pic.twitter.com/iEu4rEUub9 — Ninji the [REDACTED] (@_Ninji) December 29, 2014 Today users of Twitter could not log in via OAuth for a few hours. As seen in the screenshot above Twitter was already thinking it was 2015. Culprit …
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An XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability was found on the Facebook Careers page by Mohamed Ramadan. The OWASP XXE Definition reads: An XML External Entity attack is a type of attack against an application that parses XML input. This attack occurs when XML input containing a reference to an external entity is processed by a …
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Reqres simulates real application scenarios. If you want to test a user authentication system, Reqres will respond to a successful login/register request with a token for you to identify a sample user, or with a 403 forbidden response to an unsuccessful login/registration attempt. Great to see an initiative like this. Nearly three years ago I …
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