Tag: technology
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AMPstinction
AMPstinction (adactio.com) I’ve come to believe that the goal of any good framework should be to make itself unnecessary. Brian said it explicitly of his PhoneGap project: The ultimate purpose of PhoneGap is to cease to exist. That makes total sense, especially if your code is a polyfill—those solutions are temporary by d... ...
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GIF MD5 hashquine
GIF MD5 hashquine - Rogdham (rogdham.net) TL;DR: Quick access to GIF MD5 hasquine ressources:
the first GIF MD5 hashquine, created by spq (mirror)
my hashquine and the source code to create it
Introduction
A few days ago, Ange Albertini retweteed an tweet from 2013 asking for a document that shows its … -
Intermediary Protocols and Google Duplex
As Google show off their digital assistant's upcoming new feature of being able to make phone calls on your behalf, Dan asks what this means for the way we communicate in the future.
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The Mystery Cable
Dan found a mystery cable in his attic and has no idea what it is or what it does. Can you help, before it drives him mad?
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Mystery cable found in my attic
What is it? What is it for? I've never seen anything like it before!
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Web! What is it good for?
https://adactio.com/journal/9016 (adactio.com) You can listen to an audio version of Web! What is it good for? I have a blind spot. It’s the web. I just can’t get excited about the prospect of building something for any particular operating system, be it desktop or mobile. I think about the potential lifespan of what would be …
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GMail Tip: Use A Plus Sign To Avoid Spam
Surely everybody by now knows that you can use a plus sign in your GMail address to dodge spam and improve email filtering. Wait, some people don't? Let's fix that.
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AMP Is Poisonous
AMP, Google's technology that tries to make the mobile web faster by giving Google a monopoly over it, is fucking poisonous and it destroys everything that makes the Web great. Reject AMP!
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Tomorrow's Web, Today
Feeling optimistic about the technical future of the Web, Dan finds the opportunity to hack about with some promising new tools: Intersection Observers, Web Workers, Blobs, and the Fetch API.
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The Lost Civilization of Dial-Up Bulletin Board Systems
I have a vivid, recurring dream. I climb the stairs in my parents’ house to see my old bedroom. In the back corner, I hear a faint humming.
It’s my old computer, still running my 1990s-era bulletin board system (BBS, for short), “The Cave.” I thought I had shut it down ages ago, but it’s been … -
Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers With WebSockets
Pornhub has found an innovative way to deliver ads to users of ad blocking software, exploiting limitations in Chrome’s content blocking API...
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Why GNU grep is fast
I am the original author of GNU grep. I am also a FreeBSD user,
although I live on -stable (and older) and rarely pay attention
to -current.
However, while searching the -current mailing list for an unrelated
reason, I stumbled across some flamage regarding BSD grep vs GNU grep
performance. You may have noticed that discussion too...
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History of the browser user-agent string
In the beginning there was NCSA Mosaic, and Mosaic called itself NCSA_Mosaic/2.0 (Windows 3.1), and Mosaic displayed pictures along with text, and there was much rejoicing...
WebAIM
Have you ever wondered why every major web browser identifies itself as "Mozilla"? Wonder no longer... -
Breaking https' AES-GCM (or a part of it)
The coolest talk of this year's Blackhat must have been the one of Sean Devlin and Hanno Böck. The talk summarized this early year's paper, in a very cool way: Sean walked on stage and announced that he didn't have his slides. He then said that it didn't matter because he had a good idea …