Alex CashMar 15
So many little 200-5000 line scripts and apps I’ve always had gnawing at the back of my mind that I’ve whipped up in the last month or two. Spinning up a little one off tool to solve your own problem is so much more feasible than it used to be.
Show threadAlex CashMar 15
Related prediction: security and ops is gonna be a massive fucking mess for a while. Whole classes of scraping, mitm-ing, and drm stripping tasks have gone from “too much of a faff” to reasonably attainable.
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My old World of Warcraft guild was using some cursed PHPBB-alike where every URL is a php file with half a dozen query strings. Every page has like 100 valid urls and all of them get used. /viewtopic?id=foo and /forum/viewtopic?id=bar&gid=baz are I shit you not the same page.
Mar 15 at 10:54pmIvory for iOS
Show threadAlex CashMar 15
500 lines of python to go archive a website like this isn’t novel. It’s not technically impressive. But it *is* fiddly. And I wouldn’t have bothered without LLM codegen.