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The purpose is so that Twitter is seen as the source of the traffic. A lot of Twitter-sourced traffic comes from native apps, so when people click links from tweets, they usually d…

How hard was acquiring the domain twenty.com?

I thought about it, but I hadn't originally built it to make money. It was a weekend hack project that I never expected to do that well, and suddenly the prospect of centering my l…

I built a social media analytics API. At its peak, it brought in about $23k/mo, with server costs at about $3k/mo. When I got a job at Instagram, they decided it was a conflict of …

Easy to imagine why this didn’t capture peoples’ attention in late March 2020…

This unnecessary condescension is made all the funnier by the fact that the quote the expression alludes to wasn't actually written by Mark Twain, but in all likelihood by a French…

Probably because they include HIBP data https://www.troyhunt.com/were-baking-have-i-been-pwned-into-...

The author, Virgil Goode, is best remembered for this incident. It may help in understanding his motivations in opposing high-skilled immigration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qur…

In addition to properly escaping inputs, Content Security Policy Headers to restrict the hosts that the browser executes JavaScript from (e.g., script-src). https://developer.mozil…

I’m well aware. But every other map handles this correctly except Google Maps. It’s not that hard.

Also a pain-point -- 2.6 million people live in Queens, NY, but Google Maps gets the city wrong for the vast majority of them, and it causes major headaches for residents (since so…

The city doesn't run the subway, the state does.

I've done this a few times and have found it to be an extremely effective way to do simple pixel tracking (for custom emails and the like).

The piece explicitly credits them: > Workers have also started to replace faulty signals that trigger a train’s emergency brakes at low speeds, a problem investigated by The New Yo…

You're close. The bank isn't "a" bank, it's a Central Bank. And it's Swedish, not Swiss.

No, cookies can be restricted to paths, it's just less commonly utilized. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/co...

Can't be this, since they don't have on-page ads.

Interesting that String padding made it in -- sort of jumps out as the simplest of these additions. I wonder how much of that had to do with negative PR for JS-land due to left-pad…

The HackerNews repo is gone (and thus the issue), but at one point this was a Github issue I successfully filed to get HN to add it so their referral data for non-SSL pages wouldn'…

Voter files being public data depends on which state you're talking about -- you're looking at ~50 different sets of laws and regulations. Some states restrict access to only polit…