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Aurelio De Rosa
Personal blog · audero.it/blogprogrammingweb
Aurelio De Rosa's personal blog at audero.it covers programming and web. Since 2016, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Monkey Patching in JavaScript (2016)”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog for demos and articles on browser APIs, such as the resource timing and battery status demos, and on JavaScript monkey-patching. No commenter judges the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The website of Aurelio De Rosa. Engineering manager, tech lead, mentor, author, and speaker.
Most-linked posts?
- Monkey Patching in JavaScript (2016)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-18
What Hacker News says?
"I'm still trying to imagine the way one exploits a lack of partitioning in the DNS cache." There's a PDF here: https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/nd... Basically timing based. See https://www.audero.it/demo/resource-timing-api-demo.html for a demo of what's available in the browser's navigation and resource timing API. For example, I get this on a cached reload: domainLookupStart: 52.09000012…
Comment linking /demo/resource-timing-api-demo.html
on “Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies”Submitted Why People Think PHP Sucks (2014) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAs far as I know, you can't monkey-patch anything in PHP, but you can in JS[1]. That alone might make JS the more dangerous of the two languages. 1. https://www.audero.it/blog/2016/12/05/monkey-patching-javasc...
Comment linking /blog/2016/12/05/monkey-patching-javascript/
on “PHP is worth learning and using”Submitted Monkey Patching in JavaScript (2016) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWow, I'm surprised how much info is available in desktop chrome. Events get fired when I unplug my laptop and plug it back in: https://www.audero.it/demo/battery-status-api-demo.html I searched Chrome settings for "battery" and found nothing. I did find this article with instructions for turning it off in Firefox: https://www.hackread.com/smartphone-laptop-battery-invading-... I'm not opposed to the concept of a bat…
Comment linking /demo/battery-status-api-demo.html
on “Your battery status may be used to track you online”
