nathan hammond

First, I would like to both thank and congratulate Eran Hammer-Lahav for all of his effort judging the Node Knockout. Yes, that is right, he judged every single one of the entries. Now, with his unique perspective, he decided to give out some awards of his own: The Unauthorized Node Knockout #2 Awards. I won't spoil ...

First, check out Radiation Info. Since the earthquake in Japan I have been closely following the news to keep up with what is happening. Of particular interest to me (and initially, concern) were the events unfolding at the Fukushima nuclear power plants. As I was trying to follow along I kept becoming frustrated with the reporting ...

Almost exactly a year ago I wrote what turned out to be a pretty popular bookmarklet for downloading YouTube videos. Last month YouTube announced adding 1080p as a playback format. Catching wind of that a few days ago, I decided I'd go back and check to see if they still worked. Nope. I guess that betrays ...

This definitely has not gotten enough attention. Originally discussed here in 2006 by a team of people from Stanford, there exists a class of attacks on browsers that enables one to identify which sites a user has visited through either their caching mechanism or CSS. The white paper can be read here, but in short: <style ...

Update Out with the old, in with the new. It has been quite a while since this article was written, and it was seriously out of date. I have updated the bookmarklets, included here for convenience. Be sure to use these links here at the top, and click and drag them to your bookmarks bar. YouTube ...