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dakullon Target=”_blank” is an underestimated vulnerability

Twitter's t.co links seem to mitigate this by issuing a 301 to the actual link thus fixing the `window.opener.location` vulnerability.

I wonder if the reasons for implementing this are related or just good riddance :)

dakullon Skylake's Linux power management is dreadful you shouldn't buy until it's fixed

That video reminds me of childhood, good old Tom's Hardware :)

dakullon Ruby Web Applications Without Rails

>That's for a cold start. Once the application is initialized, it becomes way faster.

If one uses Unicorn in production there's no such thing as a `cold start` Ruby is not the JVM lest you run JRuby or Rubinius ofc :-)

dakullon Shaky: ASCII Diagram to PNG

Is it just me or the ASCII diagrom looks way better than the generated faux-comic-PNG?

dakullon What's new in Rails 5?

The intent of Rails is to make writing web applications easier, but that writing web applications actually got much more difficult for me as a Rails developer when Angular and Ember and then later React got popular. I love Ruby, but I respect the fact that the Javascript-client-side-heavy/"single-page" part of the app is where the magic is for at least a few years now- really several years.

Not really sure why you say that whilst TL3 tries to solve exactly that issue in a simpler, classical way [0]

I love the idea of being able to use the usual Rails helpers combined with JS in a React-kind of way and at first sight that's what TL3 could manage to do.

[0] by that I'm referring to the clean HTML that still looks semantic and has all the normal separation of views and styles whereas in React et al if one's inspects the code is just looks horrid.

Regarding SPAs the isomorphic approach seems really contrived at this point and for most web apps TL3 seems like an elegant solution whilst keeping the full power of Rails intact.

Sure there are cases with heavy UI apps that require components et al but for my use cases TL3 + Rails5 looks like a breath of fresh air, maybe a middle step to full SPA.

dakullon Ask HN: Does anyone know what happened to Reia?

Was just thinking out-loud: "Why not run a cvasi-Ruby implementation on the BEAM?"

dakullon Eliminating GIL in Ruby Through Hardware Transactional Memory (2013)

Darn - I'm still mad about Intel's TSX-HTM bug[0]. I really wanted to compile this and play with it.

[0] - http://techreport.com/news/26911/errata-prompts-intel-to-dis...

dakullon RuJIT – Trace-based JIT Compiler for Ruby

Did anyone compile and benchmark it?

dakullon 6 Reasons to Use Netbeans IDE

at least in AutoCAD you have AutoLISP :-)

dakullon XSS,CSRF,SQLi – we don't have any of those in Rails at all

I know the tweet is caustic but it did spark a good discussion.

dakullon Ruby 2.2.0-preview1 Released

This looks awesome so far - kudos to the team. I also started benchmarking it just for fun[0]

[0] - http://marianposaceanu.com/articles/ruby-2-2-0-preview-1-qui...

dakullon Errata prompt Intel to disable TSX in Haswell, early Broadwell CPUs

Yours also sounds like a "non-statement statement" e.g.:

https://www.mikeperham.com/2013/12/31/rubys-gil-and-transact...

dakullon Is Linode down everywhere?

I did - it was down for about two hours[0] it seems (see the status history), anyway it was only their website, the infrastructure was all OK.

[0] http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/linode.com.htm

dakullon Removed from catalog: Fallout 1, 2, & Tactics

“If people are wondering, Bethesda has the rights to these games starting Jan 1 2014. Which is why GOG having them for free was great. So many people that may have purchased them from Beth got them for free before then.”

dakullon How I Made my Blog 2.3x Faster

why not push them to a CDN ? and you could extract the inline images from the css and combine all of them into a sprite

dakullon How I Made my Blog 2.3x Faster

Yeah I was thinking something similar also as bonus points using this is that you learn a ton while hacking for near-static-page performance and you get to have your CMS.