The most abused number in CSS is 999 as z-index value, if flipped around it’s 666, coincidence?
Monthly Archives: October 2014
YOURLS spam clean up with a few lines of JavaScript
Cleaning YOURLS spam when the stock antispam fights WordPress: manual IP blacklist, console JavaScript to batch-copy IPs and mass-delete spam rows in the admin UI.
Placeholder text is evil, case study : Monster Android app
A “test” label disguised itself as actual content at the bottom of the login screen reaching production environment.
What happened
The Monster Android app (version 2.0.1) displayed a “test” label at the bottom of the login screen — a leftover from development that was not removed before the production release. The placeholder text was visible to every user who opened the application.
UX and QA lesson
Incidents like this highlight how important a systematic UI review is before every release. Placeholder text — whether Lorem Ipsum, test labels, or temporary strings — should be identified and removed during the development cycle, not left to individual memory.
A release checklist that includes verifying all visible text on every screen is a good starting point to avoid embarrassing production bugs.
Spell updated with Cordova 3.5.1 security fix
It doesn’t happen really often to receive emails from Google, and usually when it happens it’s bad news (like spiders not crawling, terms&conditions updates a la Orwell etc), and also today they met my expectations with this message : This is a notification that your it.simonerescio.spell, is built on a version of Apache Cordova that contains security … Continue reading Spell updated with Cordova 3.5.1 security fix