Reading List
- Stop Using Icon Fonts
Icon fonts became popular over a decade ago. But their convenience comes at a high cost to your visitors.
- this email is being tracked
Alex Hern
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17 Feb 2021
Every industry has practices that burst into flames on contact with the public. Things which are accepted, and not even doubted, within the field, but which, if enough normal people pay enough attention to them, are indefensible. Journalism, of course, is full of this. From the practice of “door kno…
- I paid for Spotify playlist placements so you don’t have to
As part of my ongoing mission to throw money into thin air I decided to promote some of Corserine‘s songs on Spotify. Objectives: increase monthly streams on my Spotify artist page so I can get picked up by Spotify algorithms better. Which in turn means I get on even bigger playlists which in turn means….er… profit?
- Modules, monoliths, and microservices
Avery Pennarun
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23 Feb 2021
What is a microservice? When are microservices a good idea? Lately, I get people asking me when microservices are a good idea. In systems design explains the world, I talked about big-picture issues like second system effect, innovator’s dilemmas, and more. Can systems design answer the microservice…
- BBC News: ‘Spy Pixels in Emails Have Become Endemic’
Speaking of Hey, BBC News ran a piece on email spy pixels last week: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56071437
- Large-scale Analysis of DNS-based Tracking Evasion - broad data leaks included?
Lukasz Olejnik
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23 Feb 2021
User tracking technologies are ubiquitous on the web. In recent times web browsers try to fight abuses. This led to an arms race where new tracking and anti-tracking measures are being developed. The use of one of such evasion techniques, the CNAME cloaking technique is recently quickly gaining popu…
- The Pretty JSON Revolution
Peter Ohler
Wouldn't it be nice if more JSON tools supported a truly pretty JSON format? Demand options for truly pretty JSON now! Viva la revolucion!
- The three freedoms of the web
Paul Bakaus
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18 Feb 2021
What makes a piece of content, or sub-platform truly open, and part of the open web’s content corpus? This turns out to be a deceivingly hard problem, because everyone I ask replies with a different angle of openness they care about.
- The Ghost Recruiter
Nomm
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23 Feb 2021
A story about a particular type of person who gives hope and then takes it away.