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Elsewhere on HN in case you missed it - random MAC addresses are coming to iOS8: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7864813

The Guardian's new Android and iOS apps are natively wrapped webviews: https://twitter.com/patrickhamann/status/472017297771884544

Is there one typography book you'd recommend in particular to start with?

Wow thanks for taking the time to share all of this. I'm a fan of 16px + for body copy. I think the browsers have it right most of the time with the default font size of 1em == 16p…

Most of my experiences with StackOverflow are positive, but just once in a while I'm left baffled by what feels like an excessive use of force by the power wielders there. Are ther…

Do you have one you prefer?

There are a few rules of thumb I see repeated regularly for web design, such as aiming for 1.5em+ for line-height in paragraph text and using dark grey instead of black text on whi…

Here's a good episode of The Incomprable podcast where they discuss their favourite board games, helped me discover new games to play: http://5by5.tv/incomparable/184

If you're maintaining performance benchmarks for your web site, how are you doing it? Software, services, automation, real browser vs. pinging, and alerting - it'd be interesting t…

Is there anything you need to do to enable it on Heroku, other than setup SSL/TLS?

If you're on shared hosting, is it down to the hosting company to enable Forward Secrecy? Are there any shared hosts doing this yet?

Good to see the word is spreading about HSTS. EFF started pushing it earlier this month [1], with a perhaps fair claim that it's not widely known about by web developers. As the ar…

Ah ok, that makes sense. I'm still a tad uneasy about it. Thanks for the reply.

Interesting read discovered after investigating how to defend a site from being framed with a new URL shortener mentioned elsewhere on HN today.

I'm not sure about this. Mmm. My gut feeling is I wouldn't feel too cool about using it, and I'd guess that if you gave news sites the chance to opt-in to being framed, not many wo…