miniblog.

Go has an os.Root API that allows you to enforce all paths are subdirectories of a given root. It fixes users accessing foo/../../../etc/passwd and similar. Seems like a really nice solution for a relatively common problem.

I sometimes see blog posts lamenting how inconsistent UIs are in modern apps. When did consistency peak? Windows 3? After the release of Aqua for macOS? The era when Bootstrap was the default CSS framework for many web developers?

Has the JS ecosystem reached a point where people agree roughly what a good architecture looks like? I don't see as many blog posts complaining about new framework churn and I'm wondering why.