Advice for a new executive – Excellent suggestions from Lara Hogan and Chad Dickerson.
Firefox :screenshot
command – Simple way to take a screenshot of a page from the web dev console. Only in Firefox Nightly and Firefox Dev Edition right now.
RFC for a Secure Unserialization Mechanism in PHP – I recommend avoiding PHP serialize() and unserialize() entirely.
Keynote Speakers Make Bad Life Decisions and Are Poor Role Models – We are all doomed. From the 27th Usenix Security Symposium.
The secret-token URI scheme – Provide a standard format for secret token strings, making it easier to detect and prevent them from being accidentally leaked.
Puppeteer Recorder – Chrome extension that records page interactions and generates a Puppeteer script version.
Bedrock DB – Built on top of SQLite, by Expensify. Trying to figure out if this is brilliant, crazy, or both.
ITP Debug Mode in Safari – ITP ( Intelligent Tracking Prevention ) logging, better than the previous option, which was nothing.
Amazon Aurora Serverless – Autoscaling MySQL, with per usage billing.
“Even with Location History paused, some Google apps automatically store time-stamped location data without asking.” – Things like this make it hard to believe that Google considers privacy a top level issue.