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I'm an oldskool dev who shys away from 'the new shiny' because I've learned the basics of JS and you can get pretty far with the fundamentals, despite the allure of these rather ex…

> And didn't have any or much experience with old school HTML A good heuristic for how good a web developer is is getting them to list every HTML element they know, including the d…

The JS API is a bit safer as the user has to "explicitly enable this feature". Although in some browsers, full access is granted. Thanks for pointing it out. Another reason to surf…

I am somewhat of a polymath, but a narrowly focused one, in that most of my skills solely apply to computers, and very little else. But then you may ask: computers are a broad topi…

Thank goodness. Google is the biggest potential 'database of ruin' that could embarrass many people if even a sliver of the dossiers they have on people were leaked. Holding onto t…

...That is often abused https://in.mashable.com/tech/12219/tiktok-and-other-popular-...

Would be interesting to see how many of these attacks could be mitigated with CSP[0] [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CSP

It's worth inspecting traffic from iOS apps. I normally do this by creating a wifi hotspot in Linux, connecting my iPhone to it, and then inspect the traffic with Wireshark. Then I…

I have made a habit of mining HN's Algolia search engine. You can uncover some real gems if you just put in the effort to narrow down your search to the particular topic you're int…

PWAs need to be pushed more. PWAs are more private and don't have access to things that could contain sensitive information like the clipboard's contents which are often scraped an…

I know people who have to have everything wireless. Little do they realize that all that extra radiation is probably slowly killing them. On top of that is the security risk of hav…

I worry about this being swarmed by traffic and hugged to death. Since it's popular on HN, I imagine the particular Heroku instance is overwhelmed. I was surprised that it worked w…

If you dig around, you can find some alternatives to YP https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...