today's howtos

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 31, 2023

• Interactive API tutorials

  OpenAPI, the de facto standard for documenting APIs, is a decent reference-style documentation. But it can't serve as a good how-to or tutorial.

  In this article, I will introduce a concise and readable way to write interactive tutorials and how-tos for any HTTP API (REST, RPC, or other style). And for that (surprise, surprise), we will rely on the HTTP protocol itself.

• The State of API-Powered Publishing to Social Media Networks

  If you’re blogging like I’m doing here, it’s nice to be able to kick your posts out automatically to social networks (in addition to RSS). A reasonable list right now: [...]

• Using Bluetooth on the Steam Deck

  In the following sections, we will show you how to enable Bluetooth on your device and use it to pair to another device.

  While these steps will focus on connecting a pair of Bluetooth headphones to the Steam Deck, these same steps will work for most, if not all, devices.

• Varying Sizes of Radio Buttons

  When I was looking at what looks like the “official” online personality test for Meyers-Briggs when I was spouting off about personality tests, I noticed that their radio button choices were actually kinda cool: [...]

• Email anti-spam (and really all anti-spam) is all heuristics now

  Back in the days, one of the things some people said about DNS blocklists in general and sometimes Spamhaus in particular was that they were opaque, capricious, and didn't actually validate what they were putting in their blocklists, so who knows what could wind up in there for who knows what reason. Those people would take this incident as a validation of their view.

• Quickpost: PDF/ActiveMime Maldocs YARA Rule

  Here is a YARA rule I developed to detect PDF/ActiveMime maldocs I wrote about in “Quickpost: Analysis of PDF/ActiveMime Polyglot Maldocs“.

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