Andrey Romanov

Building BlazeDiff: How I Made The Fastest Image Diff up-to 60% Faster with Block-Level Optimization From analyzing pixelmatch's bottlenecks to creating a faster algorithm with zero allocations and...

If you use visual regression tests, you might be interested in a new image comparison library that claims to be significantly faster than existing libraries: dev.to/teimurjan/bu...

Guest Post: How I Scanned all of GitHub’s “Oops Commits” for Leaked Secrets ◆ Truffle Security Co. GitHub Archive logs every public commit, even the ones developers try to delete. Force pushes often cover up mistakes like leaked credentials by rewriting Git history. GitHub keeps these dangling comm...

A cautionary tale about GitHub: a man scanned commits that were overridden with "push force" and found secrets worth $25k.

Moral: if you accidentally push a secret, treat it as compromised

trufflesecurity.com/blog/guest-p...

This weekend's project was to set up AdGuard Home on a VPS to block trackers and ads at DNS level

Scroll-driven animations are 🔥

What used to require JS is now achievable with pure CSS (Chrome only so far). A scroll-to-top button example in the video: hidden by default, reveals on scroll, sticks to top, scrolls smoothly to the top on click.

Discovered the Helix editor: helix-editor.com

Will probably drop neovim in favor of Helix, because everything I set up manually in neovim works out of the box in Helix.

Airbnb engineers published a good case study on implementing font scaling to improve accessibility: medium.com/airbnb-engin...

Another evidence that using rems instead of pixels is good for a11y.

By default, lists have a fixed padding that doesn't play well with long markers. But there's a neat trick to make layout adapt to markers size using CSS subgrid: noahliebman.net/2024/03/maki...