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Exfiltrating GitHub Gists

https://prepitaph.org/snippets/gist-exfil/

Published: May 14, 2026 00:00

snippet by FND May 14, 2026 Everyone’s leaving the dilapidated slop factory. My own efforts were stumped by GitHub’s account-data export being incomplete: Gists were missing. Recovering them was a matter of assembling a couple of…

Text Compression with Web Standards

https://prepitaph.org/snippets/text-compression/

Published: January 25, 2026 00:00

snippet by FND January 25, 2026 An ill-advised return to the rabbit hole of personal web apps and client-side secrets left me with a series of usability challenges. Naturally, those could only be addressed by fumbling with byte…

Animated Hamburger Icon

https://prepitaph.org/snippets/hamburger-icon/

Published: September 19, 2025 00:00

snippet by FND September 19, 2025 While I’m generally skeptical of hamburger menus, sometimes they seem unavoidable – or at least pragmatic in a resigned kind of way. So we might as well try to get the icon right.

Animating Text Color

https://prepitaph.org/snippets/text-animation/

Published: August 31, 2025 00:00

snippet by FND August 31, 2025 I recently helped build a website in stark mode: Intentionally gaudy colors on dark background. That design necessitated visual flourishes for top-level navigation links to stand out when activated.

Faceted Filtering with Constructed Style Sheets

https://prepitaph.org/articles/facsseted-filtering/

Published: June 29, 2025 00:00

by FND June 29, 2025 An effort to escape irksome constraints of enterprise software not only made me appreciate the impact of modern CSS when combined with JavaScript APIs, it also taught me a few things about progressive enhancement,…

MacBook Setup

https://prepitaph.org/journal/mbp-2025-01-04/

Published: January 4, 2025 00:00

journal by FND January 4, 2025 I’m in the process of setting up a new-ish MacBook. Unusually, this isn’t currently my primary machine, which gives me some leeway to really start from scratch instead of just transferring all the cruft…