2023 - To Read

After years of letting algorithms make up our minds for us, the time is right to go back to basics.

We weren’t always so taken with dynamic duos. But in recent decades, we’ve come to expect that people should have one closest companion.

The line of death, as Eric Lawrence explained in a classic blog post, is the idea that an application should separate trustworthy UI from untrusted content. The typical example is in a web browser, where untrustworthy web content appears below the browser toolbar UI. Trustworthy content provided by the web browser must appear either in the browser toolbar, or anchored to it or overlapping it. If this separation is maintained, then untrusted content can’t spoof the trustworthy browser UI to trick or attack the user.

@milofultz@merveilles.town I recently read a blog post by @mnl@hachyderm.io where he framed this in terms of travel and it really resonated with me. https://the.scapegoat.dev/curiosity-as-tourism/