The Java Hacker – Peter Jaric's Blog
There once was a simple Firefox plugin that added a Restart option to the File menu, but at some point it stopped working. Today I discovered that there is a built-in restart option. Just go to about:profiles and there it […]
Today things started acting up on my computer, and I traced the cause to missing files in my OneDrive folder, where I keep some configs files, like for example .bashrc. A lot of files were missing, and naturally I was […]
A while ago, while I was riding my bike to work, I thought: “Would it possible to make one.plus.two.times.three evaluate to 7 in JavaScript?” I wanted to see if it was possible, and with some invaluable help from Mathias Bynens […]
A while back, Gregoire Gilbert and Johannes Ridderstedt (then Lundberg) of the Uppsala Tech community asked me if I could write an article about bug bounty hunting for their upcoming magazine The Uppdate. Its first issue is now available at […]
My work laptop is a Dell XPS 15 running Windows 10 with a high resolution display (3840×2160). Since everything becomes so small when using standard 100% zoom I have enabled a custom scaling factor (it says 350% in the settings, […]
This is a report about Øredev 2015 that I posted on my employer’s intranet. Due to the huge demand I asked if I could publish it on the internet. Unfortunately it is available in Swedish only. I våras råkade jag […]
Finally we have a winner! But first, some background. One month ago, on the 29th of August, I announced the JavaScript Misdirection Contest: There is a programming contest called The Underhanded C Contest. In their own words, it is “an […]
Some time ago I noticed that it is possible to create Skype links for starting a chat with your account. This is how one of these URIs would look: skype:#accountname/$*T;somenumber?chat I started to play around with this and soon noticed […]
Update: If you haven’t read the post before, please read the original post below. I got a lot of interesting comments on Twitter about this post, and among them the obvious problem that this approach is slow. Then it hit […]
Today and yesterday I’ve been visiting Nordic.js, a Scandinavian JavaScript conference. To celebrate the occasion I made a little JavaScript challenge that I announced at Twitter: I had a specific solution in mind, which I didn’t receive, but I got […]