Stuart Langridge

Web consultant and custom developer. Believer in the web. Thou look’st like antichrist, in that lewd hat. He/him. @[email protected]

[Stuart Langridge @sil]

Can I make someone else's tweet my pinned tweet?

[Matthew Garrett (@[email protected]) @mjg59]

@sil Your righteous Cassandra energy right now must be enough to power the country

[Daniel Newns @DanielNewns]

It’s time for @LaravelLiveUK ! Don’t forget to come by and say hello to the @jumptwenty4 team! Cast your vote on the really important topic! #marmite or #vegemite

[Daniel Newns @DanielNewns]

The #marmite and #vegemite beef is real! Great slide by @Caneco if you’re at the @LaravelLiveUK event today then come and cast your vote at the @jumptwenty4 stand.

[Stuart Langridge @sil]

@OccidentalAvian ooh, so it is! thank you. Now fixed.

[Stuart Langridge @sil]

@Samuraiko ah, then you're fine with me. More art in the world is a good thing, and you're already on that, so I'll happily take that as encouragement :) People do find the transcripts useful, which I'm pleased about; certainly I do myself!

[Stuart Langridge @sil]

@Samuraiko Don't worry about money for me. Maybe pick someone who needs the donation more -- artists are having it tough at the moment with all the AI stuff and art is good, so if you'd like to donate (and please don't feel you have to!) maybe to an artist you like? Tell them I said hi :)

[Stuart Langridge @sil]

@Samuraiko ok, reassuringly, the CR transcript search system has picked up the recent release of episode 1 of chapter 2 of #CandelaObscura and seems to have made it available. So that's nice; looks like it's working OK. Let me know if it works as you'd expect.

[Stuart Langridge @sil]

@Samuraiko OK, I think this is done and Candela Obscura transcripts are now searchable. Let me know if there's anything that seems wrong, especially after the release of Chapter 2.

[Stuart Langridge @sil]

@Samuraiko I’ll give it a try! I might need to wait until the second chapter starts to see how they get published on YouTube, but it should be doable

[Stuart Langridge @sil]

Take a look at Learn Privacy at https://t.co/Dlxja7B0XT for how to set up CSPRO on your sites so you can help protect your users' privacy. And if you like that and want me to write things for you, get in touch! #stuartwriting 6/6

[Stuart Langridge @sil]

A #WebPrivacy tip.

Most web pages use third-party stuff somehow; web fonts, images, videos, JavaScript. It can be useful (and eye-opening for you, the page developer) to see what these things actually do. Do you know about Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only? #stuartwriting 1/6

[Stuart Langridge @sil]

Most of the time, the way you use the sites you build isn't the way that your actual users do. What CSPRO does for you is give you quiet feedback on what your users are experiencing: if your pages load loads of extra JS and pass back user info, you'll know. #stuartwriting 5/6

[Stuart Langridge @sil]

To know more about the facade pattern and other ways of using third party stuff without compromising your users' privacy as much, check out Learn Privacy at https://t.co/RLyvHwPuxg And if you like that and want me to write things for you, get in touch! #stuartwriting 4/4

[Stuart Langridge @sil]

A #WebPrivacy tip.

When you embed a resource from somewhere else on your website -- a video, a tweet, an image, whatever -- you're also aiding the source of that info to track your users around the internet. It's your job to help avoid that. #stuartwriting 1/4

[Stuart Langridge @sil]

You can make the "facade" look as much like the actual embedded thing as you want. Most sites that you might want to embed from -- YouTube, TikTok, Twitter -- support oEmbed so you can fetch a machine-readable version of the embedded thing #stuartwriting 3/4

[Stuart Langridge @sil]

To learn more about fingerprinting, why it's bad for user privacy, and what you can do as a developer, check out Learn Privacy at https://t.co/6YTenENsiW. And if you like that and want me to write things for you, get in touch! #stuartwriting 5/5

[Stuart Langridge @sil]

A #WebPrivacy tip.

Fingerprinting is the act of trying to covertly identify a user or distinguish one user from another by reading stuff about their setup. Web sites and web browsers can do this, and your job as a developer is to protect your users from it. #stuartwriting 1/5

[Stuart Langridge @sil]

In practice, most developers and most businesses have no need to fingerprint users. If you make people sign in then they identify themselves to you with consent, and in a way they can unilaterally opt out of at any time they choose. This protects their privacy. #stuartwriting 4/5