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zmxvon Cloudflare’s privacy-first Web Analytics is now available for everyone

I've just integrated it with my pet project at varten.com. It's a very smooth experience, and data points started to show up on the Cloudflare dashboard within a few minutes. One minor downside: it doesn't work on clients with JavaScript turned off.

zmxvon Show HN: Dayta – data tracker for mindful living

I had been using Google Sheets to keep track of some of my daily activities. Google Sheets is a feasible solution but the UI is not optimal for this use case, so I built this web app and released it on the first day of 2020. Hopefully Dayta can be a useful tool for those who are pursuing a mindful life.

zmxvon Show HN: Open-Source Web App of Simone Giertz's Every Day Calendar Gadget

Project inception: https://medium.com/@zmxv/every-day-calendar-html5-edition-b5...

zmxvon Validating Your Version of Xcode

The XCode trojan author is believed to have also backdoored the Unity3D engine. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10256998

zmxvon Unity3D has also been backdoored by XCodeGhost author

Chinese security engineers from Alibaba and Baidu have discovered backdoored Unity3D (v4.6.4 to 5.1.1) in the wild. The infected SDKs share the same behaviors as the infamous XCodeGhost trojan. Four types of malicious attacks have been uncovered and PoC'ed:

* Targeted phishing by prompting an alert box.

* Downloading apps with enterprise certificates.

* Opening a phishing web site in the browser.

* Launching App Store to promote specific apps.

(The last two attacks are exploiting the same vector.)

zmxvon Google’s look, evolved

I ran a survey to gauge the reaction toward the logo change and shared the results at http://blog.zmxv.com/2015/09/crowds-reaction-to-googles-new-...

HN discussion thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10161043