I installed the Pi-hole ad blocker (https://pi-hole.net/) on a Raspberry Pi Zero, and have it as my DNS server on my home network. It has improved general browsing speed tremendously.

> The author is arguing for semantic markup, but prior to HTML5 the concept barely existed

Not really. The concept existed and was well known in many developer circles (e.g. List Apart Issue 268 from 2008 http://alistapart.com/issue/268/).

HTML5 was honestly the opposite. XHTML and XHTML2 were born of a desire to have stricter, more semantic markup. But we live in the shitty timeline where XHTML2 died and we got HTML5 instead.

That's fair. Semantic markup did exist pre-HTML5. I guess I should say that HTML5 emphasized it and drove adoption.

This article is from 2008, but I think it would be quite challenging to find something similar from 1999.

Semantic HTML was already fashionable in late 2004, when I was a graphic designer arguing against table tags. But my own exposure is a bad measure, just as is anyone else's. One of the most famous groups pushing for well-written HTML was WaSP, and it turns out that it was founded in 1998, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Standards_Project

I can thoroughly recommend reading Atul Gawande's "Checklist Manifesto". The premise, on the face of it, is mundane, but the stories that back up the claims are thoroughly enjoyable to read. http://atulgawande.com/book/the-checklist-manifesto/

The book is good, but the article it‘s based on is better, because there‘s simply not enough material for a whole book, so it feels a bit forced.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/10/the-checklist

I wish every self help book had an article like this for it.

This was an excellent read. Thanks for the link!

Thanks for bringing this up! The name of the CEO didn't ring any bells for me until your comment. I've read the book and loved it; I second the recommendation.

Came here to say the same - book is an excellent read applicable across many professions.

If you work with other developers and store your Vagrantfile in source control, then you can allow per-developer settings using the method shown here: https://www.glenscott.co.uk/blog/allow-per-developer-vagrant...

I prefer this method: https://gist.github.com/stephenreay/2afd4205e76836f20e176722...

Same basic idea but plain ruby constants no need for yaml parsing.

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What are good strategies for protecting your website against ZIP bomb file uploads?

This is a great tip. To make it compatible with most modern browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari and MS), you'll need to use the following checks:

        if (typeof window.document.hidden !== 'undefined') {
            hidden = 'hidden';
        }
        else if (typeof window.document.msHidden !== 'undefined') {
            hidden = 'msHidden';
        }
        else if (typeof window.document.webkitHidden !== 'undefined') {
            hidden = 'webkitHidden';
        }

        doVisualUpdates = !window.document[hidden];

reference: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Page_Visibi...

The Flickr mobile app is a great example of where things went wrong for Yahoo. They both were too slow to spot a trend and poor at executing once they had. Ironically, from 2008 onwards, there was a module on the Flickr homepage showing the most popular cameras people were using. iPhone topped this chart somewhere around 2009 and yet they still didn't take that seriously enough to invest heavily in the iOS app development.

And even worse, rewind to 2008 and the Flickr API was considered the gold standard of API design. There were books written about it and it was regularly mentioned at conferences.

They had all the pieces to build a great mobile experience. The interest and support wasn't there from the leadership.

I don't think Flickr had any interest in becoming yet another gallery app. It always marketed itself as a place of photography with above average content from professional and hobbyist photographers. As a photographer who uses Flickr I'd almost guarantee that if Flickr put emphasis on mobile photography a lot of DSLR and Analog users would leave. I sure would.

And the Flickr redesign guy went on to ruin Chowhound.

This is a good tool for determining whether your account has been compromised by hackers:

https://haveibeenpwned.com

I was expecting a blank page with the word "Yes." centered in large bold letters.

I saw a similar (presumably joke) page a while ago: "enter your CC information and we'll tell you if it's been hacked".

I saw a similar one to tell you if your password was secure; it responded "not anymore".

The domain search facility there is fantastic. I have my own domain and try to use a different email address for every signup. Luckily that site allows you to do a complete search for @example.com in the 'domain search' tab.

I wonder why searching for "@gmail.com" does not show any result .. are you sure that works as you mentioned?

You have to prove you own the domain for the domain search to work. https://haveibeenpwned.com/DomainSearch

Wow. Thanks for that. I didn't even know about the Bitcoin/Gmail breach that came up for my email, and I didn't remember even having an Adobe account.

That might explain a breach I had a while back.

I don't remember signing up to Adobe, but I have a "Welcome" email from February 2011. Was there a free download of Photoshop, or something like that?

CS5 was released in April of 2010. The update CS5.5 was released in May of 2011.

I'm guessing someone used your email address to start a free trial in order to pirate the software. They were either replacing an older version they had, or wanted a free upgrade and attempted to hide their identity.

FYI Photoshop is one of the most pirated pieces of software.

Thanks, this site is much more useful than the NYTimes article.

Thanks! Only once, and not at a site i would put legit info on. Not that i ever do really haha.

Useful though. I doubt thats all in reality unfourtanetly.

Thanks for that, very handy

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