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Why Is the Web So Monotonous? Google.Does it ever feel like the internet is getting worse? That’s been my impression for the last decade. The internet feels now like it consists of ten big sites, plus fifty auxiliary sites that come up whenever you search for something outside of the everyday ten.

Why We've Tried to Replace Developers Every DecadeEvery decade brings new promises: this time, we'll finally make software development simple enough that we won't need so many developers. From COBOL to AI, the pattern repeats.

Why Valetudo?

An Internet of PHPPHP is big. The trolls can proclaim its all-but-certain “death” until the cows come home, but no amount of heckling changes that the Internet runs on PHP.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) cheat sheetThis cross-site scripting (XSS) cheat sheet contains many vectors that can help you bypass WAFs and filters.

Simple things are complicated: making a show password optionAdding a ‘show password’ option to GOV.UK Accounts seemed like a straightforward task, but the more we looked into it the more complicated and interesting it became.

Glaze: Protecting Artists from Style MimicryGlaze is a tool to help artists to prevent their artistic styles from being learned and mimicked by new AI-art models such as Stable Diffusion.

A person’s name is not the title of a work — even if people call that person a piece of work.

HTML Standard

Who says standards documents are dry reading?

SharpHigh performance Node.js image processing

Whenever I’m using a new library for the first time, and I copy-and-paste an example from the README, it neeeever works the first time (especially when dealing with the filesystem), but this one did, so I think this must be some really good stuff.