Bluesky Exploits
https://github.com/qwell/bsky-exploits [github.com]
2023-09-13 20:32
tags:
exploit
security
social
ux
web
web
I have discovered a number of security vulnerabilities in Bluesky and atproto. Each time I’ve found something new, I’ve chosen to report it to Bluesky at security@bsky.app, as requested at https://bsky.app/.well-known/security.txt, and provide them with details. Bluesky has responded to only one of these reports, one time, 4 days after submission, saying “We appreciate the report, and we’ll be taking a closer look at the issue.”. They did not follow up on that report and they have not responded to any of my other reports.
Smashing the state machine: the true potential of web race conditions
https://portswigger.net/research/smashing-the-state-machine [portswigger.net]
2023-08-10 16:24
tags:
concurrency
exploit
networking
security
web
HTTP request processing isn’t atomic - any endpoint might be sending an application through invisible sub-states. This means that with race conditions, everything is multi-step. The single-packet attack solves network jitter, making it as though every attack is on a local system. This exposes vulnerabilities that were previously near-impossible to detect or exploit.
source: L
The Garden of Computational Delights
https://arbesman.net/computationaldelights/ [arbesman.net]
2023-08-06 22:17
tags:
essay
links
tech
web
Beneath the utilitarian purpose of computation, computing is also a source of delight and wonder. Software is not just databases and mail merges or SaaS and spreadsheets; it’s creative coding and simulated cities, code poetry and bulletin board systems. It’s websites that dazzle and iPhone apps that make the heart sing. And it’s sometimes even spreadsheets, coerced to dance and do all manner of weirdness. All of these approaches to computing are what am collecting here, and bundling under the term “garden of computational delights.” This is a list of places that collect or catalyze sources for being enraptured by the web, programming, and the wider world of computing. Or, as per Tim Hwang and Omar Rizwan, this is a garden of all the different places you might discover where “the computer is a feeling.”
source: Dfly
A Blog Post With Every HTML Element
https://www.patrickweaver.net/blog/a-blog-post-with-every-html-element/ [www.patrickweaver.net]
2023-08-04 00:16
tags:
docs
essay
html
standard
text
ux
web
I could, element by element, continue to add support (mostly by making CSS updates for each element to fit in with the rest of my style choices) as I came across specific needs for them, but not one to shy away from an exhaustive exploration, I decided to write this post and attempt to use every element.
A goal of the post, was to avoid delaying other future posts with CSS updates on a previously unused element, but in reality it took a year and a half to make all the updates for just this post! I am using the MDN Web Docs list of HTML elements as a reference which has more than 100 tags divided into a few categories, which I will also use in this post.
source: L
acme.sh runs arbitrary commands from a remote server
https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh/issues/4659 [github.com]
2023-06-09 04:49
tags:
programming
security
sh
turtles
web
Now it became immediately obvious to my why HiCA only supports acme.sh. They are not conforming to ACME at all! (Bugs the heck outa me that they’re using the official ACME logo on their site even though they don’t implement the ACME standard.)
Instead, HiCA is stealthily crafting curl commands and piping the output to bash. acme.sh is (being tricked into?) running arbitrary code from a remote server.
source: HN
FAAS in Go with WASM, WASI and Rust
https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2023/faas-in-go-with-wasm-wasi-and-rust/ [eli.thegreenplace.net]
2023-05-11 21:07
tags:
go
programming
rust
wasm
web
This post is best described as a technology demonstration; it melds together web servers, plugins, WebAssembly, Go, Rust and ABIs. Here’s what it shows:
How to load WASM code with WASI in a Go environment and hook it up to a web server.
How to implement web server plugins in any language that can be compiled to WASM.
How to translate Go programs into WASM that uses WASI.
How to translate Rust programs into WASM that uses WASI.
How to write WAT (WebAssembly Text) code that uses WASI to interact with a non-JS environment.
source: L
Memoirs from the old web: The KEYGEN element
https://www.devever.net/~hl/web-keygen [www.devever.net]
2023-04-29 20:49
tags:
browser
html
retro
security
turtles
ux
web
The purpose of the <keygen/> element was to allow a web browser to generate a private/public keypair upon submitting a form, in a way that allowed a web browser to be enrolled in a new client certificate.
source: L
Charts.css
https://chartscss.org/ [chartscss.org]
2023-03-31 02:28
tags:
html
library
visualization
web
Charts.css is a modern CSS framework. It uses CSS utility classes to style HTML elements as charts.
source: L
Venkat’s Blog Post Unjustly Removed from Google Search Results Due to EU RTBF Takedown
https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2023/03/venkats-blog-post-unjustly-removed-from-google-search-results-due-to-eu-rtbf-takedown.htm [blog.ericgoldman.org]
2023-03-17 22:55
tags:
policy
web
This is not the first time my blog has been subject to right-to-be-forgotten (RTBF) takedowns. See, e.g., this post (scroll down for the updates). But every time the RTBF is applied to my blog, it’s probably a wrongful application of a misguided policy and worth relaying here.
Why some GitHub labels are illegible
https://firsching.ch/github_labels.html [firsching.ch]
2023-03-14 22:48
tags:
design
graphics
html
ux
web
essentially the text of the label will be colored white if perceived-lightness<0.453 and black otherwise. However, when the perceived-lightness is very close to the threshold, we don’t trigger the min or max and actually get some sort of grey color for the label.
source: HN
Feeds, updates, 200s, 304s, and now 429s
http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2023/01/18/http/ [rachelbythebay.com]
2023-01-20 22:05
tags:
admin
development
web
The carrot basically is: if you have a well-behaved feed reader, you will continue to be able to discover a new post on my feed in a reasonable amount of time. This is most people. Most people do it right. Thank you for that.
The stick is: if you do not, you will not. It will take considerably longer to notice something’s different out here.
The Safari bug that never was
https://obyford.com/posts/the-safari-bug-that-never-was/ [obyford.com]
2023-01-07 21:56
tags:
browser
bugfix
html
text
web
We’d managed to get from ‘some quite strange things are happening to the header, beta banner and buttons’ to ‘text wraps unnecessarily within intrinsically-sized elements when using certain fonts and the inner HTML of the element contains a new line that is not preceded by a space’.
source: HN
Porting Zelda Classic to the Web
https://hoten.cc/blog/porting-zelda-classic-to-the-web/ [hoten.cc]
2022-05-16 00:17
tags:
bugfix
development
gaming
retro
turtles
web
I spent the last two months (roughly ~150 hours) porting Zelda Classic to run in a web browser.
I hope my efforts result in Zelda Classic reaching a larger audience. It’s been challenging work, far outside my comfort zone of web development, and I’ve learned a lot about WebAssembly, CMake and multithreading. Along the way, I discovered bugs across multiple projects and did due diligence in fixing (or just reporting) them when I could, and even proposed a change to the HTML spec.
Weird how there’s bugs everywhere one looks.
A Tale Of A Trailing Dot
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/05/12/a-tale-of-a-trailing-dot/ [daniel.haxx.se]
2022-05-14 00:41
tags:
networking
security
standard
text
turtles
web
Trailing dots on host names in URLs is the gift that keeps on giving. Let me take you through a dwindling story of how the dot is handled differently in different places through the stack of an Internet client. The evil trailing dot.
source: L
How I experience the web today
https://how-i-experience-web-today.com/ [how-i-experience-web-today.com]
2022-04-19 22:45
tags:
browser
business
design
development
essay
interactive
ux
web
An interactive experience!
source: DF
Those HTML Attributes You Never Use
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/03/html-attributes-you-never-use/ [www.smashingmagazine.com]
2022-04-04 21:05
tags:
html
web
But there is a whole bunch of lesser-used attributes that I was sure I’d forgotten about, and probably a whole bunch of attributes I didn’t even know existed. This post is the result of my research, and I hope you’ll find some of these useful to you, as you build HTML pages in the coming months.
source: HN
The perils of the “real” client IP
https://adam-p.ca/blog/2022/03/x-forwarded-for/ [adam-p.ca]
2022-03-05 22:36
tags:
cloud
networking
security
turtles
web
The state of getting the “real client IP” using X-Forwarded-For and other HTTP headers is terrible. It’s done incorrectly, inconsistently, and the result is used inappropriately. This leads to security vulnerabilities in a variety of projects, and will certainly lead to more in the future.
source: HN
It's always been you, Canvas2D
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/canvas2d/ [developer.chrome.com]
2022-03-05 00:27
tags:
browser
graphics
javascript
update
web
Admittedly, the API is a bit behind the times when it comes to state-of-the-art 2D drawing. Fortunately we’ve been hard at work implementing new features in Canvas2D to catch up to CSS, streamline ergonomics and improve performance.
source: HN
Google Docs in a clean-room browser
https://www.ekioh.com/devblog/google-docs-in-a-clean-room-browser/ [www.ekioh.com]
2021-09-20 17:32
tags:
browser
cloud
development
javascript
programming
turtles
web
Like Google Mail, Google Docs almost entirely consists of obfuscated JavaScript, some of it common between the two. Its HTML structure is quite simple, though it uses hidden iframes for various purposes (one for key input and another for calculating word widths, amongst others). Over the course of the couple of months I identified over 30 distinct issues that needed fixing, and I’ll discuss the more interesting ones in the second section of this blog.
As with Gmail, I believe Flow is the only browser engine written after Google Docs that can run Google Docs.
source: HN
Why Keyboard Shortcuts don't work on non-US Layouts and how Devs could fix it
https://tkainrad.dev/posts/why-keyboard-shortcuts-dont-work-on-non-us-keyboard-layouts-and-how-to-fix-it/ [tkainrad.dev]
2021-04-09 02:48
tags:
browser
bugfix
development
ux
web
This is most annoying when the most important keyboard shortcuts are inaccessible. A very common shortcut is / for accessing search functionality. Unfortunately, there is no /-key on most international layouts. Adding modifiers to produce this key with your layout rarely helps. For example, on my German layout, / is produced via Shift+7. Most web applications will ignore this. Similarly painful is when Electron apps use [ and ] for navigating backwards and forwards.
If you use a US layout, you might be surprised to hear about these problems. But rest assured, they are not new and I am not the only one who is affected. We are at a point where it is easy to find users complaining about this for almost any popular web application.
source: HN