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How I hacked Github again
This is a story about 5 Low-Severity bugs I pulled together to create a simple but high severity exploit, giving me access to private reposi...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 178 posts.
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Only 90s Web Developers Remember This
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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The State of JavaScript in 2015
Developing Opinions - A blog by Jimmy Breck-McKye
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Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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The Birth and Death of JavaScript [video]
This science fiction / comedy / completely serious talk traces the history of JavaScript, and programming in general, from 1995 until 2035. It's not pro- or anti-JavaScript; the language's flaws are discussed frankly, but its ultimate impact on the industry is tremendously positive. For Gary's more serious (and less…
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Burying the URL
Chrome considers hiding the location field.
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Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI, Part 2
A guide to visual aesthetics, written by a nerd
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Principles of Rich Web Applications
7 actionable principles for websites that want to make use of JavaScript to control their UI and deliver the best performance
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Scribd and Quora considered harmful
There are two terrible web properties out there that everyone hates, Scribd and Quora. Please don’t use them. Instead of Scribd just host a PDF anywhere, or upload text to pastebin or make a nice blog on WordPress or Medium or something. And instead of Quora use Ask MetaFilter or StackExchange .
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Why the Bootstrap 3 Grid Works (2013)
Expired Registration Recovery Policy
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You have ruined JavaScript
In the old days In the old days we had some really awful JS being written on pages in a pretty ad-hoc fashion and it caused us huge problems. Presumably most people still do this but they're the same...
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2 years with Angular
AI fair value $183 vs ask $100 — fse.guru looks under-priced for a ultra-short .guru.
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Pulling JPEGs out of thin air
This is an interesting demonstration of the capabilities of afl ; I was actually pretty surprised that it worked! $ mkdir in_dir $ echo ' h...
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CSS Shapes Editor for Chrome
CSS Shapes allow web designers to wrap content around custom paths, but authoring them is not trivial.
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Hacker News down, unwisely returning HTTP 200 for outage message
So HackerNews is currently down. It happens, we’ll probably find out why when it returns. For a while yesterday, all HN URLs were returning error messages from CloudFlare, apparently their CD…
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Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI
A non-artsy primer in digital aesthetics
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Safari to Include DuckDuckGo as a Built-In Search Option
Link to: http://www.apple.com/osx/preview/apps/
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Cookie Bomb or Let's Break the Internet
TL;DR I can craft a page "polluting" CDNs, blogging platforms and other major networks with my cookies. Your browser will keep sendin...
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To close or not to close – Void HTML elements
A blog about web and frontend development, design, 3d and music — by Mat Simon.
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Creating 3D worlds with HTML and CSS
An experiment in creating a 3D environment using HTML elements and CSS transforms featuring lights, shadows and collision detection.
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Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus?
Note: This is explicitly posted in my private blog rather than the Adblock Plus blog. This post represents my own opinion only. It is likely unwise to rant about a competing project but I just don’t want to keep my findings to myself. If you are here for Adblock Plus bashing and don’t care enough to read the post…