Friday, 3rd January 2020
Come version 80, any cookie without a SameSite attribute will be treated as “Lax” by Chrome. This is really important to understand because put simply, it’ll very likely break a bunch of stuff. [...] The fix is easy, all it needs is for everyone responsible for maintaining any system that uses cookies that might be passed from an external origin to understand what’s going on. Can’t be that hard, right? Hello? Oh...
How the Digg team was acquihired. (via) Useful insight into how a talent acquisition can play out from Will Larson, who was an engineering leader at Digg when they negotiated their acquihire exit. # 2:27 am
What do you call the parts of a story? Or: why can’t journalists spell “lead”? (via) Carl M. Johnson’s analysis of what journalists call different elements of a story, useful for data modeling a CMS for a news organization. # 1:13 am