Reading List
- Dark corners of Unicode – “Yes, it turns out that Unicode decomposition also decomposes Hangul (the alphabet used to write Korean) into its sub-components” (but you probably knew that already)
- CSS Font Rendering Controls Module Level 1 Unofficial Proposal Draft – featuring
font-display:optional– use the font if it’s cached, else use a fallback & cache it for next time - The Performance of Houdini Paint by Ian Kilpatrick (Google)
- WebKit start implementing Shadow DOM – “The feature will be enabled by default without prefix on trunk on Mac and iOS ports and disabled elsewhere by default.”
- WordPress Patches Serious Shortcodes Core Engine Vulnerability
- Facebook “likes” will be used to serve ads. I assumed they always had been, actually. They’re already used by police in Thailand to monitor “subversives”.
- The toxic side of free. Or: how I lost the love for my side project (part 1/5) < important stuff by Remington Sharp
- Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents – “Because of a software bug, loss of information was introduced where none should have been … For PDFs that were scanned with the named Xerox devices during the last 8 years, it cannot be proven what characters were on the original sheet of paper”. According to a BBC report, Xerox Vice President Rick Dastin “said that oil rigs, the military … were among the owners most likely to have switched their copiers to the setting”
- Fuck the Internet of Things – Tim Severien
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