Compression and concatenation on the web - The Consensus
Everybody knows you can concatenate gzip files to form valid gzip files, but do the browsers know? We explore concatenation with gzip, brotli, and zstd.
Do web components have a future if nobody is writing them?
With my previous post on “using the platform”, I was surprised that the comments on Hacker News and Lobsters tended to veer toward web components. This…
WCAG 3: a different future for accessibility - TetraLogical
Did you know that when given a minimum payment threshold, people pay off about 70% less from their credit card than they would have done without it? The minimum payment doesn't change the number of people who pay off their full outstanding balance, but it dramatically changes how much everyone else chooses to pay.
pourdev/pour-engine: A zero-dependency WCAG 2.2 accessibility audit engine, written from the W3C specifications. Runs entirely in the browser and reports what it cannot prove instead of guessing.
A zero-dependency WCAG 2.2 accessibility audit engine, written from the W3C specifications. Runs entirely in the browser and reports what it cannot prove instead of guessing. - pourdev/pour-engine
Imprint’s average engineer is merging 4x more PRs than 2 years ago. Yay.
Aggregated behind the average is something even more interesting:
we have two teams that are merging 10x their PRs over that period.
One engineer is merging 25x the PRs per week of our average engineer two years ago,
and a number of others are closing in on that number.
That’s pretty neat, and the slope of the line suggests our average in a year is going to look much closer to
today’s p90 than today’s p50.
Even more importantly, we aren’t just shipping more, our quality has improved:
incidents are down 42% half-over-half, and critical incidents are down 78% half-over-half.
I think we’ve always known the quality/velocity tradeoff wasn’t a particularly useful
construct, but that’s undeniable today.
Automated attack surface analysis and reduction can meaningfully improve the security of deployed software in the near term. In this post, we preview data we’ve collected from applying attack surface reduction techniques to large open-source codebases using Claude.
PHP2Shell — AI uncovers critical vulnerabilities in the backbone of the web
PHP2Shell is a family of critical vulnerabilities in core PHP that can allow unauthenticated attackers to execute code or disclose sensitive process memory.