Reading List
- Firefox 85 Cracks Down on Supercookies
Mozilla Security Blog
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26 Jan 2021
Trackers and adtech companies have long abused browser features to follow people around the web. Since 2018, we have been dedicated to reducing the number of ways our users can be tracked.
- Making is Show Business now
Alex Danco
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10 Oct 2020
Nadia Eghbal’s new book, Working In Public: the Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software, may not have been on your short list of books to read this year.
- Giving advice is a last resort
Give the Advice Monster the finger. Tell less and ask more.
- Twitter and Interoperability: Some Thoughts From the Peanut Gallery
Cory Doctorow
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25 Jan 2021
Late in 2019, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey floated “Project Blue Sky,” a plan for an interoperable, federated, standardized Twitter that would let users (or toolsmiths who work on behalf of users) gain more control over their participation in the Twitter system.
- On the complexity of JSON serialization
Einar W. Høst
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8 May 2020
I vented a bit on Twitter the other day about my frustrations with JSON serialization in software development. I thought I’d try to write it out in a bit more detail.
- The High Price of Mistrust
When we can’t trust each other, nothing works. As we participate in our communities less and less, we find it harder to feel other people are trustworthy. But if we can bring back a sense of trust in the people around us, the rewards are incredible.
- CSS Frameworks, hype and dogmatism
Some notes on the dogmatism and gatekeeping themes of Tech Twitter and how they can generate often incorrect and naive statements—specifically about frameworks and methodologies.
- Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces
Mitja Felicijan
A few months ago I experimented with DigitalOcean spaces as my backup solution that could replace Dropbox eventually. That solution worked quite nicely, and I was amazed how smashing together a couple of existing solutions would work this fine.
- Names to avoid in Software Engineering
Danver Braganza
An incomplete list of poor names for libraries, modules, projects and teams