Fast character case conversion

...or how to compress sparse arrays.

https://github.com/apankrat/notes/tree/master/fast-case-conversion

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#algorithm #optimization #misc

Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users

Computers would be so much better if they never had to deal with users, amirite?!!? I remember, years ago, working on a mobile web service which had a URl bar – so users could tap in bbc.co.u…

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/10/every-search-bar-looks-like-a-url-bar-to-users/

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#uri #ui #ux #extra

What is CSS preprocessor?

Nowadays, we often craft our styles by using preprocessors syntax. They provides a CSS-like syntax with enhanced features to save our time when building the web.

https://makzan.net/mobile-web-design/what-is-css-preprocessor/

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#css #scss #webdev #learn

Dependency Confusion: How I hacked into Apple, Microsoft and dozens of other companies

Easiest bug bounty money I ever made. No knowledge of hacking was required.

https://medium.com/@alex.birsan/dependency-confusion-4a5d60fec610

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#security #npm #bugbounty

That day my noscript killed 10,000 phones in South America

The story about what happens if your automated tests go wrong.

https://new.pythonforengineers.com/blog/the-day-i/

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#bug #tests #misc

CSS Is Finally Getting If/Else Statements

When I started coding CSS in 2011 I could never have suspected how much the language would change. I still remember making a PHP noscript that generated a PNG to round corners.

https://kentondejong.medium.com/css-is-finally-getting-if-else-statements-3fabcec72a1f

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#web #design #css

Bypass Paywalls

Bypass Paywalls is a web browser extension to help bypass paywalls for selected sites.

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/blob/master/README.md

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#extra #privacy #misc

What is a legacy system, and why do companies keep using them?

It’s not easy to define a legacy system as there is no single definition in use. Technically, some computer systems, programming languages, software applications, specific processes or technologies can all fall into this category.

https://freeportmetrics.com/blog/what-is-a-legacy-system-and-why-do-companies-keep-using-them/

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#misc #learn

Rich

Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal.

https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich

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#ascii #python #misc

How to criticize code

Criticizing code is an important skill. It helps transmit norms, increase team knowledge, and improve solutions. But it isn’t something that comes naturally; I had to learn how to do it. Similar to learning how to edit other’s essays, you must learn how to critique team member’s programming.

https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2021/01/25/how-to-criticize-code/

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#misc #learn

How to win at CORS

CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) is hard. It's hard because it's part of how browsers fetch data, and that's a set of behaviours that started over 30 years ago that require adding features, improving defaults, and papering over past mistakes all without breaking too much of the web.

https://jakearchibald.com/2021/cors/

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#web #misc #learn

Android Dialer Secret Codes

Secret Codes is an Open Source application that allows you to browse through hidden codes of your Android phone.

https://github.com/SimonMarquis/Android-SecretCodes

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#misc #android #extra

The Lost Art of Structure Packing

This page is about a technique for reducing the memory footprint of programs in compiled languages with C-like structures - manually repacking these declarations for reduced size.

http://www.catb.org/esr/structure-packing/

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#c #struct #learn #misc

Pursue High-Quality Leisure

If I stop mindlessly surfing the internet, what am I going to do all day?

https://www.deprocrastination.co/blog/pursue-high-quality-leisure

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#offtopic #health

Obsidian.‎md

Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.

https://obsidian.md/

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#editor #markdown #extra

sync: ExampleWaitGroup includes a porn website url · Issue #48886

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/48886

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#golang #meme #github

Leave no trace: how a teenage hacker lost himself online

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/14/leave-no-trace-how-a-teenage-hacker-lost-himself-online

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#security #extra

Scribe

An alternative and lightweight frontend to Medium. No cookie warnings, no paywalls, supports Reader Mode.

https://scribe.rip/

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#extra #misc

The Norway Problem

YAML, is Norway a lie?

https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/why/implicit-typing-removed/

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#learn #misc #yaml

Goodbye Transistor? New Optical Switches Offer up to 1,000x Better Performance

'Optical Accelerators' ditch electricity, favoring light as an exchange medium.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/goodbye-transistor-new-optical-switches-offer-up-to-1000x-better-performance

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#research #hardware

You shouldn't invoke setup.py directly

The setup.py interface is an old convention from distutils, one that has bugs that cannot be fixed to bring it into line with modern Python packaging approaches.

https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2021/10/setup-py-deprecated.html

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#python #pip #extra