“What is almost certainly happening with Tumblr’s image classifier is that they’ve deployed the bot entirely untrained, and are relying on user complaints to train it what NSFW content on tumblr looks like.”

“puppeteer/experimental/puppeteer-firefox at master · GoogleChrome/puppeteer · GitHub”

This looks very very useful. Need to see if it works with my unit testing scripts.

“mnot’s blog: Eight #aabill Predictions”

“How to get the value of an object from a specific path with vanilla JS - Go Make Things”

“Michael Tsai - Blog - Mac App Notarization and Customer Privacy”

All modern tech is at least a bit creepy.

“Michael Tsai - Blog - Proof That iOS Still Hasn’t Gotten Undo Right”

Both undo and text selection, two of the most core interaction features in any given OS are basically still broken in modern mobile OSes.

“Big ol’ Ball o’ JavaScript - Brad Frost”

I’m still a bit unclear as to whether the built-in webviews provided by Windows will continue to be based on the engine underlying EdgeHTML or whether those APIs will be migrated to a Chromium-based webview. I hope they’re migrating the lot as a zombie web engine benefits nobody

Starting to suspect that the resentment many web devs seem to have towards non-Chrome browsers stems from a reliance on libraries and frameworks that are only tested in Chrome, maybe Safari if they’re lucky. So in their mind that translates to firefox = broken and edge = broken.

“What the Marriott Breach Says About Security — Krebs on Security”

“Assume you are compromised”

“More Tech Will Not Save Us from Disinformation - Features - Source: An OpenNews project”

“Magic numbers”

Important points on taking unexamined old research as gospel.

“Facebook Gave Some Companies Special Access to Users’ Data, Documents Show - The New York Times”

The more we find out about Facebook, the more evil it looks.

“Facebook’s developers worked to remove the part where the app has to ask for users’ permission to read their call logs.”

“Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 71“

“While we Blink, we lose the Web”

“Why You Should Never, Ever Use Quora – Waxy.org”

“Risking a Homogeneous Web - TimKadlec.com”

“Performance Calendar » QUIC and HTTP/3 : Too big to fail?!”

“Half of all Phishing Sites Now Have the Padlock — Krebs on Security”

Https everywhere! All the security all the time! What could go wrong?

“No Cure for Entitlement – hueniverse”

“Asking someone to speak JS in order to write CSS is like asking someone to learn French in order to write in Dutch.”

“javascript - How to minify Lit-HTML (including comments) - Stack Overflow”

Library dev defends competing library because it was being criticised unfairly for what are endemic issues in web development.

“Blockchain study finds 0.00% success rate and vendors don’t call back when asked for evidence“

“Adactio: Journal—Programming CSS”

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