Reading List
- Let’s Bring Spacer GIFs Back!
The 90s web gave us many delightful things: web rings, guestbooks, “under construction” animations, and spacer GIFs. In this article, we’ll see how I use a Spacer component to solve common layout problems, and why it’s often a great tool for the job in the modern web.
- Stealing Your Private YouTube Videos, One Frame at a Time
Back in December 2019, a few months after I started hacking on Google VRP, I was looking at YouTube. I wanted to find a way to get access to a Private video which I did not own.
- Malware on my Android phone!
Cedric Beust
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10 Jan 2021
I have a confession to make that I’m not very proud of: recently, I unwittingly installed malware on my Android phone. As one of the early members of the Android team and someone who’s been using Android for about thirteen years, this was a pretty humbling and irritating event.
- GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker (and my toilets are blocked)
jayfax
GNOME filepicker and my toilets are broken because of culture of mediocrity.
- The confusing world of USB
Fabien Sanglard
For decades, my perception of USB was that of a technology both simple and reliable. You plug it and it works.
- I did not notice my worsening mental health, and got hit hard by OCD (a tale of caution)
Sergii Kharagorgiiev
Have you seen “Aviator”, a movie with Leonardo DiCaprio about Howard Hughes? Then you might recall what an OCD is.
- Death to the document
David Yates
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10 Jan 2021
Until quite recently, the South African Revenue Service’s online tax filing website required Adobe Flash. This aged web plugin allowed SARS to embed editable tax forms in the e-Filing web application. The result looked like this: Taxes and Flash: a match made in Hell.
- 🗳 Ranked voting systems
Elzear
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10 Jan 2021
How we should change voting systems to remove strategic voting.
- Exploring my writing: The subjects of sentences
Consider the two sentences below, which one do you think is better? "The dog chased the cat." or "The cat was chased by the dog." ?
- Block Cipher Structures: Ranked
An opinionated curation of different classes of block ciphers, ranked by an opinionated furry.