Pete Hunt of React fame recently got into an online discussion about the pros and cons of Webpack vs. Browserify . In the discussion he inadvertently coins a hilarious term for a form of rhetoric in some circles of the JavaScript community - “Modularity Shaming”. React itself has been on the receiving end of…
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Mercurial 3.5 was released today (following Mercurial's time-based schedule of releasing a new version every 3 months).
Web authentication systems have evolved over the past ten years to counter a growing variety of threats. This post will present a fictional arms race between a web application developer and an attacker, showing how different threats can be countered with the latest security technologies.
Find Bayes' Theorem confusing? Let's break down this famous formula using Lego to help you build up a better intuition for this foundational concept!
Random code snippets, projects and musings about software from Eric Kidd, a developer and occasional entrepreneur.
Some in detail analysis about what the end of safe harbor means for small companies, especially in Europe.
In this post I'm going to talk about a small Haskell implementation I wrote which would have been much more difficult to write in other lang...
TL;DR OAuth2 sucks. Please don't think about OAuth2 as about the next generation of OAuth1. They are completely different like colors: O...
Research portfolio and personal page for Jason Yosinski
This is the first in a series of posts will discuss why garbage collection is hard, especially for Rust, and brainstorm about solutions to the …
Sometimes a programming design pattern becomes common enough to warrant its own special syntax. Python’s list comprehensions are a prime example...
So, as people have started turning over stones, looking to see how common these Komodia certificates are, some surprising (and depressing) things are beginning to surface. It does appear that Komod…
With Reddit data in BigQuery, quantifying all the hundreds of millions of Reddit submissions and comments is trivial.
Personal website of Stefan Heule
For a bit more than a year now, I've been interested in Rust , a programming language by Mozilla research that “runs blazingly fast, prevents nearly all segfaults, and guarantees thread safety.” It is as low-level as C or C++, has a nice type system (with generics and traits), a helpful compiler, and a…
Hit the play button above and it will play music; specifically, music composed with (or at least, compatible with) a program released in 1994 called FastTracker 2; this is a Javascript homage I wrote in a fit of nostalgia. The source code is on GitHub if you'd like to check it out.
Yesterday I wrote about the impending death of the neurologist and author Oliver Sacks. I was particularly struck by this line from Sachs’ public goodbye
This is a post loosely based on an article appearing today in the German newspaper “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” by Axel Brennicke and me. The raw data for our analysis is available. Please do let us know if you find a […] <a class="more-link"…
Yesterday, the web celebrated its 25th birthday and to join in, I have a little story. A couple of years ago I found a NeXTcube. I'm not going to say where it is to avoid vandalism (the computer is publicly accessible under some circumstances without much oversight), but this is the story. Sir Tim Berners-Lee…
