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Popular iPhone and iPad Apps Snooping on the Pasteboard

This article provides an investigation of some popular apps that frequently access the pasteboard without user consent. These apps range from popular games and social networking apps, to news apps of major news organizations. We found that many apps quietly read any text found in the pasteboard every time the app is…

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Surfing the Modern Web with Ancient Browsers

I spend a fair amount of time working with legacy operating systems. Apart from being obsolete themselves they suffer from a common problem – the web browsers are simply unusable on a present day Internet. You start by getting JavaScript error on google.com and it only gets worse once you go further. Try going to…

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RSS Feed Best Practices

These are some technical tips for publishing a blog. These have nothing to do with good content, just how to share that content. The recommendations are roughly in order of importance and have rationale for why they are that important.

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The Play Framework at LinkedIn

I’m excited to announce the next step in LinkedIn’s service infrastructure: the Play Framework. Play is a modern web framework that combines the performance and reliability of Java and Scala, the power of reactive programming, and the productivity of full hot reload support. We’ve been running Play

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Request bodies in GET requests

12 years ago I asked on Stack Overflow: Are HTTP GET requests allowed to have request bodies? . This got a 2626 upvotes and a whopping 1.6 million views, so clearly it’s something lots of people are still curious about, and in some cases disagree with the accepted answer.

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Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end

I've been trying to make progress on a herculean task; I want decent looking programs for personal use which I can generate quickly using AI agents yet I'm a person without taste controlling an AI without taste. I found "one weird trick" that does enough for me, the results are not extra nice but it doesn't make me…