whatsamattayou's comments

whatsamattayou | 9 years ago | on: Google Fonts Redesigned

When I go to a web page, yes, I expect the page to load completely and be done with it.

No scrolling needed. Show 1 page of content, and use AJAX to quickly load new page content.

whatsamattayou | 9 years ago | on: PhpMyAdmin Project Successfully Completes Security Audit

Some dev environments aren't local, and sometimes this is faster, especially if you have to document the changes for future updates that don't include your fancy tools.

whatsamattayou | 9 years ago | on: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock

"Siri, a coworker is complaining next to me. What should I do?"

whatsamattayou | 9 years ago | on: University pays $20,000 to ransomware hackers

If you're a Windows programmer, might be a good idea to write a Windows Service that watches for drive encryption. Then you could stop it before it does anything. For now, I think most of the methods are known, so they are easy to watch for.

whatsamattayou | 9 years ago | on: Bloomberg Plea: Ad-Blockers Disrupt the Experience

I made an ad blocker for iOS that I popped up on the App Store so friends and family can find it easily.

But lately, some websites seem to prefer displaying nothing unless the blocker is disabled.

For those instances, I recommend using Chrome or Firefox. Then you can experience the site unprotected, if you want.

Usually it's not worth it.