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Simplex Sigillum Veri
Personal blog · remusao.github.io/postsprogrammingweb
Simplex Sigillum Veri is a personal blog at remusao.github.io about programming and web. Since 2017, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a post on how trackers make it easy to include them by accident, such as through CDN-hosted fonts or stylesheets and embedded like buttons. One commenter called that post a very interesting read.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Simplex Sigillum Veri
What Hacker News says?
That's true. But also trackers (especially big ones) deliberately try to make it as easy as possible to accidentally include them in your page. e.g: the if you use their cdn for fonts/style sheets, if you include a fb like button etc. A friend of mine covers this more extensively in this blog post which I found a very interesting read: https://remusao.github.io/posts/static-comments.html So I think it's still concer…
Comment linking /posts/static-comments.html
on “Facebooks crawls every page recorded by its tracking pixel”Submitted TIL–Python has a built-in persistent key-value store (2018) as a story · 312 points
HN discussionOnly tangentially related but I wrote some code to manipulate these filters with the hope that I would help manage/centralize them more easily: https://remusao.github.io/posts/parsing-thunderbird-msg-filt... Leaving it here in case that’s useful to anyone.
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on “The Future of Thunderbird”Submitted Getting the Most Out of Sqlite3 with Python as a story · 191 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's in a Parser Combinator? (2016) as a story · 105 points
HN discussionSubmitted A more efficient matching engine for HTTPS Everywhere as a story · 70 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Getting the Most Out of Sqlite3 with Python as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Tldts – Fast Domains and URLs Parsing (written in TypeScript) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted State of Privacy in Statically Generated Blogs as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Simple-Sanic, a Blazing Fast Http.server Replacement Using Sanic as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Install Diablo 2 on Windows, Mac or Linux as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Packaging Node.js Apps the Easy Way as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Monitoring Your Internet Bandwidth with a Raspberry Pi as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A more efficient matching engine for HTTPS Everywhere as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Parsing Thunderbird Message Filters with TypeScript as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts About Unit and Integration Tests as a story · 1 points
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