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Daniel LeCheminant
Personal blog · danlec.com/blogprogrammingsecurity
Daniel LeCheminant's personal blog at danlec.com covers programming and security. Since 2013, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “XSS via a spoofed React element”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Daniel LeCheminant's posts on fitting web apps into 4096 bytes, such as Stack Overflow and Trello clones, and an XSS-via-spoofed-React-element write-up.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I write code. I write about writing code.
Most-linked posts?
- XSS via a spoofed React element5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-03-18
- As much Stack Overflow as possible in 4096 bytes4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-02-17
- Trello in 4096 bytes3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-02-05
What Hacker News says?
There's a short list at the end of the post about Trello4k: http://danlec.com/blog/trello-in-4096-bytes
Comment linking /blog/trello-in-4096-bytes
on “As much Stack Overflow as possible in 4096 bytes”Submitted As much Stack Overflow as possible in 4096 bytes as a story · 382 points
HN discussionSome of the workarounds he mentions at the end of his Trello in 4096 bytes[1] post seem really interesting: - I optimized for compression by doing things the same way everywhere; e.g. I always put the class attribute first in my tags - I wrote a utility that tried rearranging my CSS, in an attempt to find the ordering that was the most compressible [1] http://danlec.com/blog/trello-in-4096-bytes
Comment linking /blog/trello-in-4096-bytes
on “As much Stack Overflow as possible in 4096 bytes”Submitted Trello in 4096 bytes as a story · 11 points
HN discussiontongue in cheek, but check out Trello in 4096 bytes: http://danlec.com/blog/trello-in-4096-bytes
Comment linking /blog/trello-in-4096-bytes
on “Trello clone with Phoenix and React – 5-part tutorial”Submitted A bug in the Sundown and Redcarpet markdown parsers may lead to XSS as a story · 6 points
HN discussionIt's Stackoverflow in 4kB. Here is the explanation: http://danlec.com/blog/stackoverflow-in-4096-bytes
Comment linking /blog/stackoverflow-in-4096-bytes
on “Web Bloat Score Calculator”Submitted Hacking StackOverflow.com's HTML sanitizer as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI find "The long tale of two tribes" at the bottom of the page far more interesting than the score calculator itself. We should discuss this and not nitpick on WebBS gaming. It would be better for discussion to have article at the beginning of the page and later on introduce the score calculator. I would not say that it is easy to pick one particular side. It is true however that web feels too bloated. It is funny h…
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on “Web Bloat Score Calculator”Submitted How the Trello Team Uses Trello as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI hope you are aware about this attack vector[1] that was fixed in React long time ago. 1. http://danlec.com/blog/xss-via-a-spoofed-react-element
Comment linking /blog/xss-via-a-spoofed-react-element
on “Show HN: Thi.ng/hdom – S-expression based, pure ES6 UI/VDOM components”Submitted XSS via a spoofed React element as a story · 4 points
HN discussionGoogle's Closure Compiler does something like this [1]. It also reminds me of Stack Overflow in 4096 bytes [2], where author also tried to write code that would compress more. [1] https://github.com/google/closure-compiler/wiki/FAQ#closure-... [2] http://danlec.com/blog/stackoverflow-in-4096-bytes
Comment linking /blog/stackoverflow-in-4096-bytes
on “The smallest JavaScript libraries on the internet”Submitted HackerOne's First XSS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted XSS via a spoofed React element as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Make sure you validate your React props as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stack Overflow in 4096 bytes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted As much Stack Overflow as possible in 4096 bytes (2014) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted XSS via a spoofed React element as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trello in 4096 bytes as a story · 1 points
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