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message to all reverse engineers and hackers of fedi: when youre figuring out some really obscure thing and you finally crack it PLEASE document it somewhere on the web. maybe youre the first to ever walk this path, maybe youre the first person to care. but i promise you are not the last, and there will be a day when some lone hacker follows the path you took years or decades ago and they will find what you wrote and they will be eternally grateful and wont forget it ever. and thats so beautiful

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Thio
@760ceb3b9c0ba4872cadf3ce35a7a4 If you do anything that you couldn't find a simple explanation of how to do it, be the person who makes that explanation
Child of the Void

@760ceb3b9c0ba4872cadf3ce35a7a4 literally nothing in this world will make you feel as lonely and frustrated in this world as coming across a forum post from 2005 that is your exact question but has no replies

Marco Ivaldi

@BravelySemantha @760ceb3b9c0ba4872cadf3ce35a7a4 extra points if the one asking the question was your younger self ๐Ÿ˜ญ

CauseOfBSOD :fediverse:

@760ceb3b9c0ba4872cadf3ce35a7a4@wetdry.world heres some documentation on something i did the other day then (cause i didnt really document it when i did it and im pretty proud of it):

basically how it works is the extension base64 decodes 2 url parameters to determine category and url, then inserts the result into the respective fields (span elements) using .innerHTML. to get a redirect when JS is blocked by the default CSP for extensions, I embed an iframe using a
custom document i developed for this purpose (view with js off so it doesnt immediately rickroll you) that i hosted on my website. The iframe has custom sandboxing options to allow it to navigate the top-level browsing context and run javascript (sandbox="allow-scripts allow-top-navigation").

@760ceb3b9c0ba4872cadf3ce35a7a4@wetdry.world heres some documentation on something i did the other day then (cause i didnt really document it when i did it and im pretty proud of it):

basically how it works is the extension base64 decodes 2 url parameters to determine category and url, then inserts the result into the respective fields (span elements) using .innerHTML. to get a redirect when JS is blocked by the default CSP for extensions, I embed an iframe using a
custom document i developed for this purpose

Sven Slootweg

@760ceb3b9c0ba4872cadf3ce35a7a4 Addition: it doesn't matter if it's some quickly written misspelled notes, that's better than no documentation at all, if you don't feel up to writing a Proper Article(tm)

jack will miss this server

@760ceb3b9c0ba4872cadf3ce35a7a4 I got an email notification yesterday, someone commenting "Thanks" on an ascii-art pinout of a 7-seg LED module I put on Gist after failing to find a definitive product sheet elsewhere online :)

Koos van den Hout

@760ceb3b9c0ba4872cadf3ce35a7a4 I agree a lot, but recently I would add "do it at a place that will stay around". Social media and other sites where "everyone" goes come and go, but you can make your personal website stay.

Lena64t :queercat_trans:

@760ceb3b9c0ba4872cadf3ce35a7a4

Deal! But when I do, You'll be mentioned and have to read my articles.

:blobcatboo: :blobcatboo: :blobcatboo:

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