Captchas Turned Notification Exploits 🔗
When my site analytics reported a large number of inbound traffic from Hacker News clones, I got curious and started clicking links.[1] I like to visi [...]
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
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Named Blogs 🔗
I think it’s endearing when people name their blog. I’m not talking about branding, like people do with professional blogs or newsletters. I’m talking [...]
Reading and Writing as Human Expression & Connection 🔗
Why do we write? We write, in part, because our own reading was given as a gift to us and we want to extend that same magic we received to others. Her [...]
The Beauty of Building 🔗
Jan Miksovsky has an absolutely tremendous article about how he cobbled together some disparate pieces of hardware and software in order to help impro [...]
Navigations on the Web 🔗
When trying to define the difference between a link (<a>) and a button (<button>), a general rule of thumb is: links are for navigation, buttons are n [...]
Persisting State to localStorage in Recoil Across Browser Tabs 🔗
I was working on a project using Recoil for state management in React. I needed to persist some state to localStorage, and there’s some info on how t [...]
Job Screening Blog Post 🔗
Take a look at these two animated gifs. First: Second: Can you tell the difference between them? Do you care? If not, we might not be a good f [...]
Hacker News Clones 🔗
Every once in a while, I’ll have a post gain traction over on ye ole’ orange site (Hacker News). I find out about it because my analytics digest will [...]
Quality Means The Flexibility to Change 🔗
Here’s Ben Nadal quoting Dave Farley: I've come to the belief that the only definition of quality in code that makes any sense is our ability to chang [...]
For Sale: Used Domain (**Clean Title**) 🔗
Bryan Braun has an interesting post about his experience with what he calls a “haunted domain”: He buys a domain that seems fine on the surface. When [...]