Blogs

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2022-08.

The United States of Amazon: The Day Amazon Sent the FBI to Take My Family’s Bank Accounts

Tags: amazon, legal

Wow, this indeed looks like a major flaw in the US legal system. It’s at least a good illustration at how major corporations can leverage it for bullying people.

https://medium.com/@amy_riveter/the-united-states-of-amazon-the-day-amazon-sent-the-fbi-to-take-my-familys-bank-accounts-b5172b4ddda3

Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon | Tracking pixel

Tags: tech, google, surveillance, privacy

New way to track… this is really an arm race. Let’s see how the adblockers react to this.

https://chromium.woolyss.com/f/HTML-Google-Tag-Manager-the-new-anti-adblock-weapon.html

Project Zero: A walk through Project Zero metrics

Tags: tech, security

Interesting statistics on how responsive several vendors and projects are regarding security vulnerabilities.

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2022/02/a-walk-through-project-zero-metrics.html?m=1

The Fastest GIF Does Not Exist

Tags: tech, gif, browser

Sometimes there can be interesting deviations between specs and implementations. Clearly this is still the case for the GIF format, with surprising results.

https://www.biphelps.com/blog/The-Fastest-GIF-Does-Not-Exist

Data Races in Python, Despite the Global Interpreter Lock

Tags: tech, python, multithreading

Contrary to popular belief, data races are definitely a reality in Python. Don’t be fooled, the Global Interpreter Lock won’t prevent them.

https://verdagon.dev/blog/python-data-races

How I Shaved 187MB Off United Airline’s 439mb iOS App

Tags: tech, bloat

Please remember to strip your symbols when you build software for production before it gets that bad…

https://telkins.dev/posts/how-i-shaved-187mb-off-uniteds-airlines-439mb-ios-app/

Moving the kernel to modern C [LWN.net]

Tags: tech, linux

This indeed would be nice to see such a move. We’ll see if that’s doable or not in the near future I guess.

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/885941/01fdc39df2ecc25f/

You can’t capture the nuance of my form fields

Tags: tech, web, frontend

This is so true… It’s just almost always better to use standard components in my experience. In particular it makes things easier for keyboard navigation and accessibility.

https://drewdevault.com/2021/06/27/You-cant-capture-the-nuance.html

Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News

Tags: news, information

A good reminder about why I stopped watching the news years ago.

https://www.raptitude.com/2016/12/five-things-you-notice-when-you-quit-the-news/

Bye for now!