Botnet Part 2: The Web is Broken.
Certain companies recruit app developers to create botnets by injecting “network sharing” SDKs into their apps. These botnets then use the network bandwidth of unsuspecting users of said apps to crawl the web, brute-force mail servers and other nasty things.
Helma in a browser…? 🤔
CheerpJ 4.0: WebAssembly JVM for the browser, now with Java 11 and JNI support.
Great exhibition!
Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991.
Relevant: Radical Software was a video magazine started by Beryl Korot, Phyllis Gershuny, and Ira Schneider.
Relevant 2: Lynn Goldsmith’s (aka Will Powers) “Adventures in mental health” (I still adore this song) is one exhibit, I already wrote about her and Rebecca Allen before.
Oh, what a rabbit hole… Relevant to relevant 2: Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith, a controversial case about artistic fair use that probably will meet us again with an LLM by its side, soon.
And finally: Relevant 2 to relevant 2: rockandrollphotogallery.com.
Watching:
Introducing Kermit: A typeface for kids.
Using design to empower children by making reading easier, improving comprehension, and helping dyslexics.
Unsure Calculator – Calculate with numbers you’re not sure about (via lobste.rs).
Relevant: Guesstimate and Squiggle.
Ah, the new Stereolab albu– wait, what?!
🐝❤️🩹
(…) it was what an animal did who was no longer safe in the world.
Emily Polk: Telling the Bees.
Bees have long been witness to human grief, carrying messages between the living and the dead. Finding solace in the company of bees, Emily Polk opens to the widening circles of loss around her and an enduring spirit of survival.
Relevant: How To Comfort A Dying Bee?
Github is not the end.
The lifecycle of a pull request.
You have three options to contribute to a repository:
- Paste a patch on the web UI
- Compare two local branches (you’ll see this only if you’re a collaborator on the repo)
- Compare across forks
Relevant: Introduction to Tangled.
Relevant 2: git-pr – A pastebin supercharged for git collaboration.
From React to SSI, PHP and back.
JSX Over The Wire – Turning your API inside-out.
What we have here is a server that returns all the data necessary for any given screen in one roundtrip.