… is the title of a an article by Chris Coyer about managing complexity on websites and why simple & boring might get the job done where “fancy” might not. Head over to the article, it is well worth reading, and don’t forget to […]
Author: quhno
First American exposed 885 MILLION full datasets. Translation of their statement to plain English
After exposing 885 MILLION full datasets title insurance records, including bank account numbers and statements, mortgage and tax records, Social Security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and drivers license images, which covers the last 16(!) years, the estate title insurance giant First American Financial Corp […]
Just a Tit (?)
At least I believe it is a tit but of which kind? (click to view in full size) edit: Solved, no Tit but a Nuthatch. /edit
How to write a good bug report for video bugs …
… so that we have a chance to reproduce it. In the end of the day, developers can only fix bugs they can analyze or see. This is especially valid for video bugs. If you encounter a video bug, like e.g. video flickers, shows […]
This is frustrating (small things matter)
134 lines of code, 4 normal functions, 20 calls to chrome.something APIs, some of them nested, 0 const, 0 let, 0 var, 0 ESLint errors, 0 Vivaldi debugger errors. 5h wasted with refactoring and debugging because I wanted to make it run, but it […]
Sometimes I wonder if Leonardo da Vinci …
… while painting the Mona Lisa, the Jesus portrait and his self-portrait, sat in front of his mirror while portraying himself, silently smiling about the generations to come who try to interpret the images … … but probably I am totally wrong with that.
I still can not draw …
… so I had to cheat. I imported a photo as backdrop image in Harmony Keymod (Site closed. Grab it from archive.org and clean up all the code added by archive org), then set the brush to “shaded”, the “offset-scale” to about 80 (I […]
I miss the time when icons were still pieces of art.
(right click on the image and open in a new tab to see it in its full glory)
Hunting Down Audio Bugs – a view from behind the scenes
All what should become a great mess later started with a single bug report some time back: “[SlowAudio] HTML5 Live stream has bad sound and video” (dramatic music effect) found by Gwendragon, who in the following events tested, logged and categorized a lot of […]
VPNs, Proxies und Datenschutz
Original: VPNs, proxies and privacy. (translation draft) In unserer Serie über Datenschutz und Sicherheit befassen wir uns mit echten VPNs, sicheren und anonymisierenden Web-Proxies, Browser-VPNs und erklären, worauf Sie bei einem VPN-Service achten müssen. TEAMBOLG BLOG Veröffentlicht am 17.04.2018 von Tarquin Wilton-Jones —- Cover […]
