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Design Overhaul (part 1)
Like a book being judged by its cover, people tend to judge an app by its UI. Since jumping into a web development job 3 years ago, I’ve done a fair amount of client side work. I’ve helped redesign legacy … Continue reading
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Was Mark Zuckerberg an AOL add-on developer?
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s first website was recently found to still be online at Angelfire, an early free web hosting site. The Internet Archive confirms the site existed in its current form back in 1999, and the page’s source code … Continue reading
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Facebook User Identification Bug
Time for Round 2 I decided to take another shot at Facebook’s Security Bug Bounty program. This time I ended up finding a bug that allowed a website to use Facebook to detect if their visitors were particular people. After … Continue reading
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Crafty Tricks for Avoiding XSSI
While looking at the response data from certain AJAX requests in GMail, I noticed that they were prepending their response JSON with either a number, “while(1);”, or “)]}’”. They do this to avoid cross-site inclusion attacks (XSSI), where a malicious … Continue reading
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The Chrome Web Store Effect
It’s been about 5 months since I tried out Chrome’s Web Store for my Snake and Text to ASCII Art apps, and I figured I’d give an update on how putting them in Chrome’s Web Store has effected their usage. … Continue reading
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Facebook Bug Hunting
Image By laikolosse Facebook has a neat security bug bounty program where developers, hackers, security researchers, and random Joe’s can submit security flaws to Facebook in exchange for a monetary reward and a place on their White Hat thank you … Continue reading
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2012 Comes to a Close
I’ve had a lot of false starts with writing posts lately. Writers blocks seems to have gotten the best of me, but I figured I’d do a post to reflect on the past 12 months. The hand of a fellow … Continue reading
Book Review: “JavaScript: The Definitive Guide”
I felt a little nerdy asking for this for Christmas, but it was worth while read The web apps I write for this site are written in JavaScript, and after landing a web developer job two years ago, I’ve focused … Continue reading
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Trying out Chrome’s App Store for the Web after falling down the W3C Widget Rabbit Hole
In my last post I discussed offline storage for web apps, and that I wasn’t sure how users were supposed to know that certain apps worked offline. Google Chrome has come up with a neat solution for this that allows … Continue reading
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Notes on Offline Web Storage for TAAG
After you’ve visited it at least once, the Text to ASCII Art Generator (TAAG) will now work even when you don’t have an internet connection. I had a user request this, so I figured I’d add it in for them … Continue reading
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