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Inktober - Stripes

Posted on January 21, 2022by Asanka Herath #Inktober

“Stripes” - A bee wearing an incorrectly striped sweater

For Inktober 52.

Last modified: January 21, 2022

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Ephemeral Fingerprinting On The Web

Last updated on April 1, 2020 #Privacy

Any ephemeral low-entropy web observable property whose changes are concurrently observable by multiple sites can lead to cross site identity joining.

This method of identity joining does not require coordination between multiple first parties. A single third party embedded within multiple first parties can also use this method.

Inktober - Decay

Last updated on January 13, 2022 #Inktober

Markdown should be readble without knowing Markdown

Last updated on April 5, 2022 #Tools #Engineering

Markdown documents should be readble without understanding complex mark-up. A growing number of Markdown syntax extensions take the form of HTML or HTML-like tags and boilerplate that hinder readability. Instead we should focus on how some construct should be presented in plain-text for human consumption and then add minimal structure to it for machine consumption.

Inclusion/Equity and Evaluating Negatives

Last updated on January 10, 2024 #Engineering #Inclusion and Equity

Evaluating properties like inclusion and equity of products can't be done through exhaustive enumeration of product outcomes. Instead we will need to increasingly rely on the controls that we place how we construct the products.

Why I Hate Carousels

Last updated on January 25, 2024 #Usability #Engineering

Don't use carousels in your UI.
Instead, if you must stick content into little cards, let the horionztal layout wrap to additional lines.
If you end up with too many horizontal lines of content, then you definitely have too many items that can be accessed via a horizontally panning UI. You need a different UI altogether.