JavaScript and CSS Block Encoding: Broken by design · 2 days ago
While discussing possible server-side answers to the Cross-origin CSS exploit, a potential solution that struck me was to capture the server-side script output and filter (, ), { and } into their HTML encoded equivalents.
Needless to say, it broke. But why does it break? Should it break? Is there not something inheritely broken by design here?
Dear Google · 141 days ago
Please stop fucking with altering my search terms. I don’t appreciate having to enter it twice if quotation marks fix your bastardisation creative interpretation of terms, much less having fuck-all no useful results when it doesn’t.
Comment [1]
mediawiki's Special: Recent Changes bug · 277 days ago
If you’re wondering why your RecentChanges doesn’t go back to 30 or even 14 days, but just to 7 days, then your answer is probably $wgRCMaxAge.
Extending phpDocumentor with custom tags · 315 days ago
phpDocumentor offers a decent HowTo add your own Converters for phpDocumentor, but I despaired trying to find pre-existing information on how to add custom tags once the subject cropped up at work. If you’re in a similar situation, this article may be of help.
void and null function 'returns' in PHP · 346 days ago
In case you were ever wondering what functions that pretend to be procedures return when used as a function, the answer is: NULL. That’s all there is to it.