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How To Create Your Own Chrome Extensions
Simple guide to extending your browser with Chrome extensions
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Stop Using Small Font Sizes
TL;DR: 16px minimum font-size for body text, 1.5em line-height for said text; max width should be 60-80 characters == 27-35em.
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The Destruction of the Web
Search engine spam was invented the moment search engines started to be good enough to send significant volumes of traffic to websites based on keyword searches.
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Stop Validating Email Addresses With Your Complex Regex
Just stop, y’all. It’s a waste of your time and your effort. Put down your Google search for an email regular expression, take a step back, and breathe.
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Python and the Real-time Web
I had interview for the Flask book recently and some questions were related to realtime functionality - how it works, how to integrate realtime portion with conventional WSGI applications, how to structure application code and so on.
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Native equivalents of jQuery functions
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The lie of the API
Really, nobody takes your website serious anymore if you don’t offer an API . And that’s what everybody did: they got themselves a nice API . An enormous amount of money and energy is wasted on developing API s that are hard to create and even harder to use. This is wonderful news for developers, who get paid to build…
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How Browsers Store Your Passwords (and Why You Shouldn't Let Them)
Introduction In a previous post , I introduced a Twitter bot called dumpmon which monitors paste sites for account dumps, configuration fi...
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The dire state of WordPress
Software engineer and consultant with >15 years experience. Specializing in product engineering, design systems, and full-stack web development with React and TypeScript.
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My iOS 7 Wishlist
Actually, it's not a list at all. There's just one thing I want from iOS 7.
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Mod_python - the long story
This story started back in 1996. I was in my early twenties, working as a programmer at a small company specializing in on-line reporting of certain pharmaceutical data. There was a web-based application (which was extremely cool considering how long ago this was), but unfortunately it was written in Visual Basic by a…
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Features Firefox should implement to weaken Facebook's stranglehold of the web
Merk: Denne teksten er mer enn ett år gammel. Jeg kan ikke garantere at alt som står her fremdeles er riktig eller det jeg mener. Les likevel og skriv en kommentar om du lurer på noe! English: Old post, might be outdated.
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RJS leaking vulnerability in multiple Rails applications
I wrote about this problem in May, without showcases, just a theoretical post http://homakov.blogspot.com/2013/05/do-not-use-rjs-like-techn...
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How web browsers resize images
This is an analysis of the image resizing algorithms used by popular web browsers. It was made with the help of my ResampleScope utility.
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CDN vs S3
As I said in my last post: S3 is NOT a CDN. It is an amazing Simple Storage Service, not a Simple Delivery Service. Via AWS: Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make...
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Opera Mail – standalone mail client
With the release of Opera Next, Opera Mail takes its star turn as a dedicated service. This lean and mean email machine is lightweight, nimble and focused on one thing and one thing only – handling e-mail better than ever. Simple yet powerful, Opera Mail is designed to help you get the better of your […]
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App.net’s new direction
Today, App.net launched free accounts . Previously, everyone had to pay — originally $50/year, then reduced to $36/year.
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Building Stripe's API
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