Excellent reading for web engineers: How to consume RSS safely. Mark lists 10 HTML elements that must be stripped to safely display HTML from an RSS feed. He mentions stripping style attributes from RSS, but fails to mention an even more imporant set of attributes: the JavaScript event attributes. Sure, you’ll want to leave <img> […]
I got this “cold call” email today: Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 12:19:09 -0700 From: Dennis R… To: Michael Radwin <michael@…> Subject: Could you/your family be interested in moving to Seattle area to do Browser and/or algorithm work for AMAZON? Hello Michael, I know this is out of the blue. No, we’ve never communicated before, […]
If you’re a Unix geek, you know about /usr/games/fortune. If you know much about Yahoo!, you know that we like to name our software things that start with “y”. For example, my Making the Case for PHP at Yahoo! talk mentions our legacy yScript language. Today, a rather clever co-worker of mine suggested a list […]
Ariella surprised me with a wonderful present this week. Now I’ve gotta get a Mac, too.
We went to see Air Supply last night with Rachel and Dan. What a trip!
Nullsoft (the Winamp people) today released WASTE, a secure, mesh-network IM/chat/file-transfer system. Looks kinda cool. They even GPL’d the code. WASTE is initially available on the following platforms: Windows FreeBSD MacOS X Notice a particularly popular operating system missing from that list? No, I’m not talking about Solaris.
Bill Nye the Science Guy will be speaking at UCLA on Sunday June 1st at 3pm in the Ackerman Grand Ballroom.
The cover story of the June 2, 2003 edition of BusinessWeek is entitled Yahoo! Act Two. As an insider, the article seems pretty accurate to me. It does a pretty good job explaining what’s changed about the corporate culture since Semel came on board. Our stock price is up almost 70% since the day he […]
I had a chuckle when I read these two bullet points in the Mozilla Firebird 0.6 Known Issues release notes: Form auto-complete is still an unstable feature and may lead to crashes. Followed immediately by: Disabling of form auto-completion is not working. Makes me wonder why I’d ever consider using something other than the World’s […]
I hate email almost as much as I hate the web. I’ve found that I’m using my Windows 2000 laptop a lot these days, but I’m still doing my email on my 4.5-year-old FreeBSD machine (running a vintage 2.2.7 kernel, complete with the a.out runtime linker bug). Switching back and forth between the two has […]