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Feb 5, 2016 at 23:00

Emacs tip of the day: winner-mode lets you undo changes to your window splits!

May 10, 2025 at 13:44

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.

Dec 10, 2016 at 00:03

Emacs command of the day: balance-windows, bound to C-x +. If you've split the window, this ensures that all splits are the same size.

May 28, 2016 at 17:11

Emacs can be almost exclusively used with a keyboard. I find resizing splits to be really awkward without a mouse (what numeric arg to use?)

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