Dmitry Chestnykh @dchest@mastodon.social

PSA: you can't simply cut strings in JavaScript, because they're in UTF-16. '😉'.length == 2. Instagram got it wrong. https://mastodon.social/media/Jt_MBuCiXIpiY3jEahI

Ferrari produces nice smoke machines 😉 https://streamable.com/7cq8u

Too Many Investors Believe the Unlikely, Avoid Reality https://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2017/04/28/whatever-you-do-dont-read-this-column/

Announcing TypeScript 2.3 https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/2017/04/27/announcing-typescript-2-3/

I found a micro black hole on Earth. It wasn't created by LHC, like we thought, but by LibreOffice developers who didn't account for the fact that windows are rectangular and created a toolbar with rounded corners. Strange things are happening in the gap — sometimes it even becomes black and I'm afraid it might suck the matter inside. Please be careful. https://mastodon.social/media/j6ZbUZWyPx9ORo5YXds

Now, the icons plz. Gimme me my icons back! https://mastodon.social/media/1dZFN670amkzZXzvmEA

oh, turns out I can turn them back on in Finder preferences (even though I didn't turn them off).

What service should I force quit to bring back the Finder sidebar stuff? https://mastodon.social/media/NqSCv0637boIadYiLO0

Great question about what to do with nonces in NaCl. My answer: https://github.com/dchest/tweetnacl-js/issues/123 https://mastodon.social/media/z1Q4gC6pqqDaPT4VZSU

Somebody at Apple cared enough to handle this case 👍 https://mastodon.social/media/rNdmYbGD_7iKpknarAM

Nooooooo, what have you done to ScreenFlow icon? Monsters! https://mastodon.social/media/JASXl1fqRUxLjlurUPc

BearSSL: SSL For All Things by Thomas Pornin https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLhZJ3xYqiM4iyBXQVcFC7mO5Xstg6IwBN&v=ILeWSeOOwyI

Turns out content blockers in Chrome can't yet block QUIC requests:

https://blog.brave.com/quic-in-the-wild-for-google-ad-advantage/

https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/66k0eh/psa_disable_quic_in_your_chromiumbased_browser/

I hear many misconceptions about React. React is very simple, it's conceptually a lot simpler than Vue.js or most other frameworks — it's a brilliant invention that provides just the right pieces that are needed to build complex apps with components and no more. Rare libraries/frameworks approach such simplicity. The fact that there's an ecosystem of unnecessary monstrous "solutions" doesn't make it complex.

TIL about Network Link Conditioner (in Additional Tools for Xcode) https://mastodon.social/media/0LUY7EEnJwg8D6RL8kM

Can't get over seeing Parallels icon and thinking "why is it paused?" https://mastodon.social/media/8ovU37aAmg5QADISLOQ

BBC News doesn't want React on client due to performance (they use it server-side), looking into @preactjs https://wildlyinaccurate.com/introducing-a-faster-bbc-news-front-page/

The amount of tracking shit Disqus adds to your website: http://donw.io/post/github-comments/ If you respect your visitors, don't use Disqus.

What Happens When You Send a Zero-Day to a Bank? https://privacylog.blogspot.de/2017/04/what-happens-when-you-send-zero-day-to.html