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https://www.mcnulty.blog/ Posts about the Web and the software that powers it. Light on content right now but will hopefully change that soon.

Interesting idea. I signed up. I noticed that the email confirmation links are using http:// vs. https:// . Chrome has started to flag http:// links with a full-page speed bump, sa…

Here's the researcher's write-up of the issue with more details: https://spyclub.tech/2022/12/14/unusual-cache-poisoning-akam... Interesting research and super useful write-up! My …

This is spot on. I'm very glad to see this post mention the "No Silver Bullet" essay. Despite being written in 1986, it continues to provide a relevant, skeptical view on the impac…

I find myself returning to this blog post about once a year. It think it has aged pretty well in the decade since it was written. One thing that definitely did not pan out is being…

"Use OSS" is very close to if not the same as "Build". To adopt an OSS approach for SSO, the startup still needs to dedicate resources to researching the OSS options, deploying the…

This post seems to suggest that a SaaS startup would consider creating their own SAML implementation. If a SaaS startup is considering creating a homebrew SAML implementation, they…

The rust+wasm story is quite nice these days. I've been working on a rust+wasm SPA for a few months and I have yet to run into issues with the tooling (wasm-pack, wasm-bindgen, etc…

clang-cl seems promising: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/UsersManual.html#clang-cl

Perhaps your comment was meant to be tongue in cheek, but it sounds like this data exchange is a replacement for the World Wide Web? It's not IPFS is it?

> This bubble is worsening unemployment. By what measure?

These mitigations feel like a half measure. To quote the Spectre paper: "Even code that contains no conditional branches can potentially be at risk." "long-term solutions will requ…