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Bookmarklets I Use
Hi, my name is Philipp! This is my personal website, where I write stuff with inconsistent frequency.
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Using VueJS Alongside Django
Tutorial with copy-paste ready code to add CSV Export to any model in Wagtail's modeladmin module
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The Fastest Google Fonts
Google Fonts is fast. Now it’s faster. Much faster.
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From context collapse to content collapse
When social media was taking shape fifteen-odd years ago, the concept of “context collapse” helped frame and explain the phenomenon. Young scholars like Danah Boyd and Michael Wesch, bu…
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WasmBoxC: Simple, Fast, and VM-Less Sandboxing
The software ecosystem has a lot of useful but unsafe code, and the easier it is to sandbox that code, the moreoften that’ll happen. If it were as simple as ...
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Promiscuous cookies and their impending death via the SameSite policy
Cookies like to get around. They have no scruples about where they go save for some basic constraints relating to the origin from which they were set. I mean have a think about it: If a website sets a cookie then you click a link to another page on that
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Twitter preconnects to the wrong domains
Twitter tried to reduce load times for external links, but made things slower instead. It mistakenly normalizes domains to a point where they’re no longer useful.
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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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In Defense of the Modern Web
I expect I'll annoy everyone with this post: the anti-JavaScript crusaders, justly aghast at how much...
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The Only Type of API Services I'll Use
I'll only use API services with usage-based pricing and automatic volume discounts. Why that model works, and why bucket and enterprise pricing don't.
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Anti-fingerprinting extensions tend to make fingerprinting easier
Browser extensions claiming to protect against fingerprinting will typically result in more data available for fingerprinting.
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Tracking users via CSS
I try to be a friendly citizen of the web. I try to keep my site in good shape. It should load quickly, track nothing beyond your basic server logs, not hassle you about cookies, GDPR or my newsletter. I do have a newsletter but it won't pop up in your face here. I try to stay firmly on the side of friendly and a good…
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Analytics Without Google
Last week, I launched a personal project . A nice change that most definitely came from a desire to do something else during covid-19 lockdown. With that launch came a desire to have some level of analytics, I didn't need the full customer journey but I sure was curious how many people were using my site after I…
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Why I Actively Discourage Online Tooling like jwt.io and Online JSON Validators
Why you should be opting for local tooling when working with sensitive data, even Non-Production ones.
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Performance Testing HTTP/1.1 vs. HTTP/2 vs. HTTP/2 and Server Push for REST APIs
When building web services, a common wisdom is to try to reduce the number of HTTP requests to improve performance.
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Things Markdown got wrong
John Gruber's Markdown is almost a perfect content authoring format. Here are 6 things it got wrong.
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13% of my website visitors block Google Analytics
There’s widespread use of adblockers on the web but users are increasingly blocking cookies and other tracking scripts too. Browsers such as Safari, Firefox and Brave are privacy-focused.
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SwiftUI Defaults Considered Harmful
A few notes on SwiftUI and why UI frameworks should not try to be “smart”
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Spotify, Ever the Fans of Openness
Link to: https://songshift.com/blog/spotify_transfers