The B-List: Latest links

Latest links

Thread Safety

In this day of multi-core CPUs and parallel programming platforms a common meme amongst developers has become “Is library X thread safe?”. As reasonable as that sounds, it’s actually not a particularly interesting question to ask, and anyone who claims to have a useful answer, probably doesn’t know what’s going on.

More importantly:

Phrases like “W is completely threadsafe” or “X isn’t thread safe” should be a red flag to you. They’re a sign that the speaker doesn’t quite understand the subtlety of the question, and the irrelevance of the answer without further qualification.

(Via Planet Intertwingly)

Visit site

CSRF pwns your box?!?!

I think this may be the first PURE CSRF vulnerability that I’ve seen that resulted in compromise of a victims machine

Ouch.

If you’re using Django, by the way, you really have no excuse if you get caught by a CSRF attack.

(Via Planet Websecurity)

Visit site

When Should Isaac Laquedem Stop Reproducing?

First line says it all, really:

You’re the Wandering Jew. When do you start worrying about sleeping with your own descendants?

Most brilliant Ask Mefi question in a while.

Visit site

HTML Accessibility

Be careful, Ian; Accessibility Club doesn’t always play by the rules.

Visit site

Keypress in Safari 3.1

It starts out as a discussion of a backwards-incompatible change in Safari’s keypress handling, and ends up with a remarkably good overview of a thorny bit of the JavaScript world. Go read it :)

Visit site

lolhistory

The Internet has been won. You can all go home now.

Visit site

A Steampunk Monitor and Keyboard for a Mac mini

Want.

(Via ziwt)

Visit site

On The Use of Code in Weblog Titles

We can speculate that “blog” is actually a fifo node, the read side of which is connected to netcat(1) and is being carted up to pastiche.org where it’s piped through a series of sed(1) filters that convert Charles’s raw thoughts into standard SQL99 INSERT statements.

Brilliant!

Visit site

Crimes reported in KU residences, 2005-2007

A neat little data project I was part of; design by Rich.

Visit site

Django James - who is this kid?

I have no idea.

However, this is, without a doubt, the best thing that’s ever turned up in my ego-search feeds.

Visit site

Your markup validator

A helpful reminder that markup validators do not double as penis measuring rods, and that the occasional unescaped ampersand does not utterly destroy a person’s credibility.

Visit site