Few days ago I decided to find a Stopwatch app for my Mac. I went over to the App Store and noticed that there were no good free options available. I thought to myself, how hard would it be to make one with Electron? Turns out, it was very easy. Getting an Electron shell running […]
Archives for July 2017
One Month Without AMP
One month ago I decided to disable Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) support on my site. This is a quick follow up on my experience so far and some metrics. In summary, I like it. Proof that it’s gone The following image captured in Google Webmaster’s Search Console indicates that the total count of AMP pages […]
Reverse Engineering One Line of JavaScript
Few months ago I saw an email asking if someone could unwrap this one line of JavaScript. <pre id=p><script>n=setInterval(“for(n+=7,i=k,P=’p.\\n’;i-=1/k;P+=P[i%2?(i%2*j-j+n/k^j)&1:2])j=k/i;p.innerHTML=P”,k=64)</script> This line will render just like the image below. You can see it in your browser here. It was created by Mathieu ‘p01’ Henri, author of www.p01.org where you can find this and many other cool […]
Writing Good Code is a lot Like Writing Prose
Introduction I love to write prose. I also love to write code. Different people have different approaches to writing code. I had a co-worker whose criteria for writing good Software was to make sure that one block of code can be read without having to scroll. My criteria for writing good code can be summarized […]
Firefox Marketing Declares a War on Chrome
It appears that Firefox has gone all-in with a new marketing campaign aiming at presenting Google Chrome as a big brother/browser that is watching your every step. They kicked it off with the following billboard posted somewhere in San Francisco. Firefox also appears to be a running ads on various sites targeting similar message. A […]