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Sep 7, 2015 at 17:28
Lots of great new features in clang 3.7! http://t.co/d2qJ9oQStj Some of the new macro warnings are particularly nice.

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May 10, 2025 at 13:44
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The "line of death", where the browser UI splits between trusted UI elements and UI controlled by the website. Also argues that HTTP warnings are better than HTTPS padlocks, because there's incentive to spoof padlocks lower on the page.
The death of the line of death
The line of death, as Eric Lawrence explained in a classic blog post, is the idea that an application should separate trustworthy UI from untrusted content. The typical example is in a web browser, where untrustworthy web content appears below the browser toolbar UI. Trustworthy content provided by the web browser must appear either in the browser toolbar, or anchored to it or overlapping it. If this separation is maintained, then untrusted content can’t spoof the trustworthy browser UI to trick or attack the user.
Apr 27, 2025 at 04:28
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Trying the nix CLI today, and I'm seriously impressed with the formatting of its --help output. Indented warnings, italics, bullets, even adding a left border to code snippets! It's a nice reminder to take full advantage of terminal features to help the reader.
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Aug 6, 2023 at 18:22
I admire that Chromebooks have an explicit date when they stop receiving security updates. Many devices aren't so clear, so we can't have useful discussions like this:
“Absurd”: Google, Amazon rebuked over unsupported Chromebooks still for sale
“Absurd”: Google, Amazon rebuked over unsupported Chromebooks still for sale
No security or feature updates, but selling as "new."