Is unicode character encoding a safe alternative for html encoding when rendering unsafe user input to html?

I am building a web application in which a third party library is used, which transforms the user input into JSON and sends it to an controller action. In this action, we serialize the input using the standard Microsoft serialize from the … Continue reading Is unicode character encoding a safe alternative for html encoding when rendering unsafe user input to html?

The Ceedy World of Message Serialization

Look, I’ve been there too. First the project just prints debug information for a human in nice descriptive strings that are easy to understand. Then some tool needs to log a sensor value so the simple debug messages gain structure. Now your debug messages {{look like : this}}. This is …read more

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Day Clock Monitors Air Quality of the Great Indoors

As the world settles into this pandemic, some things are still difficult to mentally reckon, such as the day of the week. We featured a printed day clock a few months ago that used a large pointer to provide this basic psyche-grounding information. In the years since then, [Jeff Thieleke] …read more

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