Reading List Monday 16 October 2017 Wi-fi security flaw ‘puts devices at risk of hacks’ – A flaw in the WPA2 standard means “Every wi-fi device is vulnerable to some variants of our attacks. Our attack is exceptionally devastating against Android 6.0” (Technical details). @Extend and Functional Selector – CSS proposal by Jonathan Neal, which is really rather groovy. CSS Utility Classes and “Separation of Concerns” The web component experience – “I moved an entire application from React to web components, a good exercise to spot the differences” Chrome Intent to Implement: image async attribute – good, although i dislike the conflation of “web developers” with “AMP team”. Tracking friends and strangers using WhatsApp iOS Privacy: steal.password – Easily get the user’s Apple ID password, just by asking ‘Our minds can be hijacked’: the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia – ‘Everyone is distracted all the time’ say ex-Facebook employees, the last generation of people who remember when phones plugged into walls.
Reading List Friday 6 October 2017 Web Components: The Long Game – “Big Al” Russell on frameworks, interop and standards. The future of accessibility for custom elements – excellent article by “Big Rob” Dodson. Screen Reader User Survey #7 – If you are a screenreader user, please complete this survey. It helps lots of developers make better websites. JAWS wide open – “file issues on JAWS support for HTML, CSS, ARIA and SVG through its new open issue tracker” UX Case Study : CNN’s Mobile App DeltaV Conference launches today! – a new community conference based around performance (like Velocity used to be, but friendly). Uncovering How Streaming Is Changing the Sound of Pop – how the medium re-shapes the message (as always) The ultimate guide to bust fake tweeters: A video toolkit in 10 steps How ANYONE can make insanely better slides No Justification for Spanish Internet Censorship During Catalonian Referendum – EFF Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android: What developers need to know – “Just use Webkit/ Blink for the successor to IE”, they said. So, they did. The five universal laws of human stupidity – “A stupid person is more dangerous than a bandit. We can do nothing about the stupid.” The Niamh prime flame-haired Brummie Stallman stand-in @sil finds a prime number that, when printed, makes an image of his daughter Bluetooth sex toys are trivial to compromise just by walking around neighborhoods