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Second Order IDOR Attacks

Ozgur Alp published an interesting medium post on Newsworthy about second order insecure object direct reference (IDOR) attacks. These cross site scripting attacks can take place when web application redirects are hijacked and identifiers are injected and used in without being validating.

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PHP in 2020

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Brent over at Stitcher.io published an illuminating article on the current state of PHP in 2020. He describes the recent evolution of PHP to include strong types, closures and package managers, among other things.

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Cheap Scaleable Cloud Hosting

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Alex Oliver has published a great how to article describing the use of Google Cloud Run for cheap and auto scaleable serverless managed container hosting which is language agnostic.

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City Roads

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City Roads is a tool created by Andrei Kashcha that displays only the roads on a city map. The colours can be customised and the resulting image can be printed on a mug or exported.

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Web Dev Tiny Helpers

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Tiny Helpers is a collection of single purpose web development tools from CSS, APIs, Security and Sys Admin.

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HSL in CSS

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The Software House blog published a useful post about HSL (Hue, Saturation, Lightness) in CSS and how and why to use it to replace RGBA.

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Perl Paint Splatters

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According to Colin McMillen, 93% of paint splatters can be recognised as valid Perl code using OCR software.

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Catering For End Users

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The Instadeq Blog has a great list of things that end users care about but programmers don't, such as "Use the fonts I use in Office" and "emoji support".

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Ordered Data Structres Vs Hash Tables

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Evan Jones published an interesting and helpful article on the differences between ordered data structures and hash-tables, and when is best to use them.

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