A nice heuristic: treat cookies differently depending on whether you've browsed to their domain. Browser fingerprint tech is mature though.
miniblog.
Great paper quantifying bugs that could be avoided with JS gradual typing, and even measuring verbosity increases! https://twitter.com/adriancolyer/status/910043537651183616
CSS scoped modules can even have type checking with Typescript!
Worthwhile article on considering PL creation as a design process:
ML's module system has a notion of composition and even types! https://jozefg.bitbucket.io/posts/2015-01-08-modules.html
Highlighting parameters, let-bound vars and special variables differently in elisp!
A tool that estimated review time needed would be really valuable. Spelling fix in docs: 1 min. Refactor major API: much longer.
50% of active Twitter users have <62 followers! https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2013/12/the-distribution-of-twitter-follower-counts.html (despite public-by-default, do users prefer a small intimate group?)
Useful reminder that VC-funded companies are great at building narratives, but aren't always the most innovative.
Cute project that turns any website into a 'native app': https://github.com/jiahaog/nativefier (is this a sign that tabbed browsers don't scale?)
Government agencies recommending against Tor: https://netzpolitik.org/2017/secret-documents-reveal-german-foreign-spy-agency-bnd-attacks-the-anonymity-network-tor-and-advises-not-to-use-it/ (global passive monitoring makes onion-routing much weaker)
PyPI packages with malicious install scripts! https://www.nbu.gov.sk/skcsirt-sa-20170909-pypi/ (so few PLs have opt-in install scripts or run them in sandboxes)
I'm glad that 0567 as syntax for octal literals has fallen out of fashion in newer PLs. It's a footgun that catches out experienced devs.
Put gaps in a Purescript program and the compiler will suggest functions that could fill the hole!
The new Pharo dev process: bootstrapping from a minimal (no compiler!) image, pull requests, and some excellent GItHub integrated tooling! https://twitter.com/SergeStinckwich/status/907189116504297472
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