Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads
Recently I read about a massive geolocation data leak from Gravy Analytics, which exposed more than 2000 apps, both in AppStore and Google Play, that secretly collect geolocation data without user consent. Oftentimes, even without developers` knowledge.
I looked into the list (link here) and found at least 3 apps I have installed on my iPhone. Take a look for yourself!
This made me come up with an idea to track myself down externally, e.g. to buy my geolocation data leaked by some application.
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Arthi-chaud/Meelo: Self-Hosted, Personal Music Server, designed for collectors and music maniacs
Self-Hosted, Personal Music Server, designed for collectors and music maniacs - Arthi-chaud/Meelo
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In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox
History of checkboxes and radio buttons in user interfaces
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HTML loves text. We can get some huge text with .
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rany2/edge-tts
Use Microsoft Edge's online text-to-speech service from Python WITHOUT needing Microsoft Edge or Windows or an API key - rany2/edge-tts
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Apache Kvrocks™
Apache Kvrocks is a distributed key value NoSQL database that uses RocksDB as storage engine and is compatible with Redis protocol.
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Unraveling the Magic of Composition over Inheritance | by Robin Ingelbrecht | Medium
“Composition over inheritance” is a principle in programming that emphasizes the use of object composition instead of class inheritance to achieve code maintainability. While inheritance can be…
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lwthiker/curl-impersonate
curl-impersonate: A special build of curl that can impersonate Chrome & Firefox - lwthiker/curl-impersonate
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21st.dev – The NPM for Design Engineers
Ship polished UIs faster with ready-to-use React Tailwind components inspired by shadcn/ui.
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Larasense - Home
Stay updated on Laravel news, trends, and updates with curated content from top blogs, YouTube, and podcasts—all in a sleek, user-friendly design.
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cerbero90/enum
🎲 Zero-dependencies package to supercharge enum functionalities. - cerbero90/enum
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Backdooring Your Backdoors - Another $20 Domain, More Governments
After the excitement of our .MOBI research, we were left twiddling our thumbs. As you may recall, in 2024, we demonstrated the impact of an unregistered domain when we subverted the TLS/SSL CA process for verifying domain ownership to give ourselves the ability to issue valid and trusted TLS/SSL certificates for any .MOBI domain.
This resulted in significant Internet-wide change, with Google petitioning the CAB Forum to wholly sunset the use of WHOIS for ownership validation when issuing CA-sig
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TubePen - Video Highlighting and Annotation Simplified
Learn faster and better from YouTube videos - highlight, annotate, save time with AI-powered summaries, retain more with AI-powered quizzes
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browserbase/stagehand: An AI web browsing framework focused on simplicity and extensibility.
The AI Browser Automation Framework
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Laid Off for the First Time In My Career, and Twice In One Year
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The future of htmx
In this essay, Carson Gross and Alex Petros discuss htmx's future direction and philosophy. They explain how the project aims to emulate jQuery's success through API stability, minimal feature additions, and quarterly releases while continuing to promote hypermedia-driven development and support the broader web development ecosystem.
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How I program with LLMs
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Laravel Joins Explained: Clear Guide with Practical Examples
Combine data from multiple tables in Laravel using different join types like inner, left, right, and advanced joins with practical examples.
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Ideas from "A Philosophy of Software Design"
Almost a month ago, I created a telegram channel with the goal of reading tech books consistently, and sharing summaries of them.This week, I have finished reading the first book - “A Philosophy of So
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Draw all roads in any city at once
This website allows you to select a city and then draws every single road on a screen.
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The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2024
Ho, ho, ho, hope you’ve brought an appetite for destruction, because we’ve got some choice cuts for you this holiday season. Among the books being tarred and feathered in the town squar…
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Getting to Two Million Users as a One Woman Dev Team
The story of the The StoryGraph with graphs
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Off the Beaten Path to Upgrade Symfony 2.8 to 7.2 | Tomas Votruba
There are two types of upgrades. One follows only `UPGRADE.md` files on every release, replacing what has been removed with new alternatives. It works, and we could say that the codebase will be "up-to-date."
The other upgrade doesn't stop at the required minimum but **makes use of all modern features the framework provides**. It will be faster, easier to understand, and easier to upgrade to the next version. I [wrote a post](/blog/two-kinds-of-legacy-code-upgrade) that explains why the latter is better.
There are no sources about Symfony upgrades spanning multiple major versions—time to fix that.
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Design Token-Based UI Architecture
Describing established patterns for organizing design tokens and practical approaches for automation
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How Autoload made PHP elegant. Discover how autoloading has… | by Julien SCHMITT | Oct, 2024 | Dev G
PHP has undergone significant changes since its early versions, and one of the most impactful features is the autoloading mechanism. This feature has transformed the way developers organize and…
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16 libri per dev da regalare e regalarvi per Natale
Scopri i 10 libri per dev consigliati da poter regalare e da regalarvi per Natale, così da approfondire e conoscere nuovi argomenti.
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From where I left
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Avoid Common Mistakes while using hooks in React
This is my first story on any frontend stack, as I am currently going through a learning course, so thought of sharing a few concepts as I learn. Today, we are diving into the world of React Hooks —…
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A Builder's Guide to Evals for LLM-based Applications
Evals for classification, summarization, translation, copyright regurgitation, and toxicity.
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delight-im/PHP-Auth
Authentication for PHP. Simple, lightweight and secure. - delight-im/PHP-Auth
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Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter
Glassy headers have become a core part of the “slick startup” UI toolkit, but they’re all missing that final 10% that really makes it shine. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create the most realistic lush frosted glass anywhere on the internet.
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Every UUID
A searchable list of every UUID v4 - scroll till you find a new favorite.
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Unsolicited advice to my younger designer self - Microsoft Design - Medium
Last summer was my 3rd year working as a product designer in Microsoft. Before Microsoft, I worked as a graphic designer across a variety of different companies and thus, came in with some…
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The action pattern : r/PHP
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The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding
A field guide and why we need to rethink our expectations
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outerbase/studio
A lightweight Database GUI in your browser. It supports connecting to Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite. - outerbase/studio
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Making AWS News stupid fast with smart caching
As I’m typing this, Re:Invent 2024 is only weeks away. In anticipation of AWS News’ busiest period of the year, I redesigned the API access patterns to support very efficient caching. This re…
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I recently started a new project, tried maxxed out PHPStan, and faced the same pain points. Does any
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steel-dev/steel-browser
🔥 Open Source Browser API for AI Agents & Apps. Steel Browser is a batteries-included browser instance that lets you automate the web without worrying about infrastructure. - steel-dev/steel-br...
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New in Symfony 7.2: Stateless CSRF (Symfony Blog)
Symfony 7.2 introduces stateless CSRF protection, enabling secure token validation without relying on server-side sessions.
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The UX of LEGO Interface Panels - Interaction Magic
LEGO interface panels are beautiful, iconic, and great for learning interface design basics. I bought 52 of them from BrickLink to explore the design, layout and organisation of complex interfaces.
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A Framework for Evaluating Browser Support • Josh W. Comeau
Lots of exciting new features have been landing in CSS recently, and it can be tough trying to figure out if they’re safe to use or not. We might know that a feature is available for 92% of users, but is that sufficient? Where do we draw the line? In this blog post, I’ll share the framework I use for deciding whether or not to use a modern CSS feature
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OussamaMater/Laravel-Tips: Daily Laravel and PHP tips.
Daily Laravel and PHP tips
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Getting Over Not Being A Good Enough Programmer
Here’s the truth about feeling like you’re not a good enough programmer…
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A Day in the Life: The Global BGP Table
Update: This article was discussed on Hackernews
Much has been written and a lot of analysis performed on the global BGP table over the years, a significant portion by the inimitable Geoff Huston.
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This Website is Hosted on Bluesky
Well, not this one. But this one is! How? Let’s take a closer look at Bluesky and the AT Protocol that underpins it.
Note: I communicated with the Bluesky team prior to the publishing of this post. While the functionality described is not the intended use of the application, it is known behavior and does not constitue a vulnerability disclosure process. My main motivation for reaching out to them was because I like the folks and don’t want to make their lives harder.
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1 dataset. 100 visualizations.
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Foursquare's 104M Points of Interest
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
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April King — Handling Cookies is a Minefield
Discrepancies in how browsers and libraries handle HTTP cookies, and the problems caused by such things.
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Tips
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Netflix’s Distributed Counter Abstraction
In our previous blog post, we introduced Netflix’s TimeSeries Abstraction, a distributed service designed to store and query large volumes of temporal event data with low millisecond latencies…
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The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development
Jungle music was found in countless games from the early 90s. This article goes over what jungle is, where it comes from, and why it was the perfect match for PlayStation & Nintendo 64 games.
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How to Delegate Effectively as Your Responsibility Grows
I’m gearing up, like some kind of power washer, to spray new productized services into our operations group so they can SOP those services at scale. And because I’m doing that, this seemed like a good moment to draw on my experience, both in leadership roles and as a management consultant, and lay out a…
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Functors to Monads: A Story of Shapes · in Code
For many years now I’ve been using a mental model and intuition that has guided me well for understanding and teaching and using functors, applicatives, monads, and other related Haskell abstractions, as well as for approaching learning new ones. Sometimes when teaching Haskell I talk about this concept and assume everyone already has heard it, but I realize that it’s something universal yet easy to miss depending on how you’re learning it. So, here it is: how I understand the Functor and other related abstractions and free constructions in Haskell. The crux is this: instead of thinking about what fmap changes, ask: what does fmap keep constant? This isn’t a rigorous understanding and isn’t going to explain every aspect about every Functor, and will probably only be useful if you already know a little bit about Functors in Haskell. But it’s a nice intuition trick that has yet to majorly mislead me.
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Transfer Playlists Between Music Services
Trasferisci playlist da qualsiasi piattaforma musicale a un'altra, incluse Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, YouTube, Google Play Music, TIDAL e tante altre!
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How I ship projects at big tech companies
What I think about when I'm lead engineer on a project
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sending-an-ethernet-packet.md
I'm sick of complex blogging solutions, so markdown files in a git repo it is - francisrstokes/githublog
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IMG_0416
Between 2009 and 2012, Apple iPhones and iPod Touches included a feature called “Send to YouTube” that allowed users to upload videos directly to YouTube from the Photos app.
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Methodology is bullshit: principles for product velocity | SSOReady
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An analysis of title drops in movies
A title drop is when a character in a movie says the title of the movie they're in. Here's a large-scale analysis of 73,921 movies from the last 80 years on how often, when and maybe even why that happens.
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Programmer in Berlin: Culture
This is part 4 of a 5-part series detailing what I wish I had known as an American programmer moving to Berlin. This page details cultural differences and things I wasn’t aware of until I stumbled on them.
Politics One thing about Germany, and Europe in general, is that it’s relatively left-wing when compared to the US. This is a place where universal healthcare is so commonly accepted that no party – not even the super-racist party! – is talking about removing it. The aforementioned super-racist party has effectively the same political platform as the mainstream Republican party in the US (minus the healthcare thing). Politics in Europe certainly has its own problems, but at least in Germany there is a flourishing multi-party system that allows for people to have some kind of choice when voting. There is even a fun website called the “Wahl-o-Mat” (“Vote-o-Matic”) that tells you which party to vote for after answering a series of questions. There’s also none of the Electoral College silliness, which I won’t get into here.
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Show HN: Convert any website into a React component | Hacker News
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Embeddings are underrated
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Make it Yourself
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I Attended Google's Creator Conversation Event, And It Turned Into A Funeral | GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT
I recently attended a funeral. It was called the Google Web Creator Conversation Event and took place on October 29, … Continue reading "I Attended Google’s Creator Conversation Event, And It Turned Into A Funeral"
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How I write code using Cursor: A review
A personal review of Cursor, an LLM-powered coding tool.
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(44) Vectors in SQLite! (with libSQL) - YouTube
In this video, I explore how to improve related article recommendations on a website by leveraging SQLite with experimental vector support in libSQL, a packa...
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An Introduction to BGP... from the operator of a small AS
BGP is a critical protocol powering the Internet, yet remains poorly understood. Here’s a quick introduction from the operator of a small AS.
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Property hooks in Practice | PeakD
Property hooks, asymmetric visibility, interface properties... PHP 8.4 has hot new features. Let's see them in action.... by crell
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Kurt Vonnegut’s lost board game finally published
It could have been a contemporary of Risk, Diplomacy, and other legendary wargames
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How Google took my job — and how yours could be next
As you may know, up until this month, I was editor-in-chief of GGRecon, a small but growing publisher in the UK focusing on gaming and esports. In August last year, we hit record numbers of visitors…
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Unlocking the Power of JSON Patch
JSON Patch is a simple, efficient, and standardized way to apply partial updates to JSON documents, especially over HTTP
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0 → 1, Shipping Threads in 5 Months
Zahan Malkani shares how they built a microblogging service to compete with Twitter with a small team that shipped a new social network in a few months.
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adaline/gateway
The only fully local production-grade Super SDK that provides a simple, unified, and powerful interface for calling more than 200+ LLMs. - adaline/gateway
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Everything App for your teams
Huly, an open-source platform, serves as an all-in-one replacement of Linear, Jira, Slack, and Notion.
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HTML for People
HTML isn't only for people working in the tech field. It's for everyone. Learn how to make a website from scratch in this beginner friendly web book.
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Media Chrome Docs
Documentation for Media Chrome, a set of fully customizable media player controls using web components.
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Practices of Reliable Software Design
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My dev environment for php projects
My best dev environment for PHP projects with RoadRunner based on Docker and Docker Compose
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PHPDocker.io
PHPDocker.io is a PHP development environment generator built with Docker containers
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How were the 70s versions of pong and similar games implemented without a programmable computer?
My Dad once commented "Back in the 70s - when Wozniak was working at Atari - they were building games using electronics - not programming computers."
As a Computer Science graduate withou...
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SiteOne Crawler
A very useful and free website analyzer you'll ♥ as a Dev/DevOps, QA engineer, SEO or Security specialist, website owner or consultant. It performs in-depth analyzes of your website, generates an offline or markdown version of the website, provides a detailed HTML audit report and works on all popular platforms - Windows, macOS and Linux (x64 and arm64 too).
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Fixing Layout Shifts Caused by Web Fonts | DebugBear
Identify and fix layout shifts caused by web fonts, improving your Core Web Vitals scores and user experience
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Serialization is the Secret - Zach Daniel
If a value mutates in the forest with no one to see it, does it really mutate?
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Boris Vallejo and the Pixel Art of the Demoscene | Marin Comics
Boris Vallejo is an epic fantasy painter, who has had an immense influence on fantasy book covers, computer game box art, and even the demoscene. Throughout the decades, his works have often been replicated by pixel artists, leading to controversy. I rediscovered Vallejo's great work for myself, looked into the demoscene's love for his pictures and decided to recreate one of his paintings using only four colors and record it on video. My little article here features fantasy art history, demoscene drama, and a lot of pixel art fun.
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#art
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Bop Spotter
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