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I just noticed the website of an old employer has been hacked and some JavaScript is injected into their corporate website that runs on WordPress. Ouch. Of course I notified them about it and they’re just trying to figure out what happened and how to fix it.
I discovered a cluster of at least 109 extensions in Chrome Web Store. A few are committing affiliate fraud or spying, most are simply hoarding overly wide privileges before abusing them.
Adblockers as the reason of InvalidAccessError
Noting Google's continued support for Microformats as a metadata format.
High availability (HA), distributed, lightweight, static site yet with comments,with a responsive UI. These are a few characteristics of the ideal bloggingpl...
Designing new map styles for FlightAware
I wanted to know if WebAssembly runtimes are getting faster.
Many thanks to advocates inside and outside who worked tirelessly for years to liberate one of New York City’s most fundamental datasets. Many more thanks to the efforts of Department of City Planning, DoITT, and the Chief Analytics Officer’s office. THANK YOU!
I took a few hours this weekend to experiment with building a hybrid native app with Gleam and Tauri. This post is a summary of that project. If you’d just like to see the code, I have published that at: https://forge.wezm.net/wezm/gleam-tauri-experiment Screenshot of the application.
Back in November of 2009, Joel Webber and I were at a GWT Summit focused on improving the Web and UI latency. Someone was giving a presentat...
Building upon my experience with the ReactJS Slide Puzzle, I thought I'd take the concept of a React-based game one step further. Flip is not very practical, and uses a lot of potentially buggy CSS3 and ES5 methods, but I mean, it's just a game. Besides, it shows some of
Last time , I tried to convince you that you might not need the virtual DOM, and that many common UI patterns can be reproduced with a completely static page, with changes only happening at the leaves of the tree - attributes and text nodes. For some trickier UI patterns, I added back a limited form of dynamic…
Firefox has had support for Google's Safe Browsing since 2005 when it started as a stand-alone Firefox extension . At first it was only available in the USA, but it was opened up to the rest of the world in 2006 and moved to the Google Toolbar . It then got integrated directly into Firefox 2.0 before the public launch…
Today’s biggest misconception about NFTs is that they’re “jpeg” images stored on the Ethereum blockchain, it’s not. Probably because that digital art can be easy to visualize, and famous artists attempt today to sell their digital art as an NFT on a platform such as Opensea, it has gained lot of attention these past…
If you've ever tried to write a computer program, you'll know the dread of a syntax error. An errant space and your code won't compile. Miss a semi-colon and the world collapses. Don't close your brackets and watch how the computer recoils in distress. The modern web isn't like that. You can make your HTML as…
TLDR; get a list of 21,864 domains from the former Yugoslavia’s “.yu” top level domain: download the .CSV
Why choose Swift as a backend language in 2020? What are the available frameworks to build your server? Let me guide you.
