By @edent · BIMI dns svg · 600 words · read ~134 times.
I've written before about the moribund BIMI specification. It's a way for brands to include a trusted logo when they send emails. It isn't much used and, apparently, is riddled with security issues. I thought it might be fun to grab all the BIMI images from the most popular websites, so I can potentially use […]
Continue reading →By @edent · hack security svg xss · 450 words · read ~221 times.
Bit of a boring write-up, but here we go. Taxi app Gett had a content injection flaw in its search function. By searching for an HTML string, it was possible for an attacker to add links or images to a page. It was really hard to contact them - but the threat of media attention […]
Continue reading →By @edent · hack php svg twitter · 3 comments · 550 words · read ~269 times.
One of the problems with OEmbeds of Tweets is that they're heavy. Lots of JavaScript, tracking cookies, and other detritus. See this excellent post by Matt Hobbs looking at how to make your website faster by removing Twitter embeds and replacing them with images. Here's my attempt to turn a Tweet into a semantic SVG! […]
Continue reading →By @edent · images linux NaBloPoMo SuperTinyIcons svg tips · 8 comments · 250 words · read ~790 times.
I work on the SuperTinyIcons project. Our aim is to make pixel perfect SVG icons in under 1KB. Because SVG can be quite verbose, every single redundant byte we can eliminate is a byte we can use in drawing. Here are three quick tips for shaving a few bytes off an SVG. Decimal Magic SVG […]
Continue reading →By @edent · images logo Open Source svg · 250 words · read ~156 times.
I love reading Changelogs - but I hate writing them. Here's what's changed with SuperTinyIcons since I launched it in 2017. It's a project to create SVG logos of popular services in under 1KB. Maximum filesize is 1,023 bytes. New Contributors! What started off as just me noodling around, has now attracted over 60 contributors! […]
Continue reading →By @edent · graphics javascript svg · 20 comments · 400 words · read ~51,769 times.
For my contact page, I wanted a generic calendar icon to let people view my diary. Calendar icons are almost always a skeuomorph of a paper calendar, but I wondered if I could make it slightly more useful by creating a dynamic icon. Here it is, an SVG calendar which always display's today's date: The […]
Continue reading →By @edent · NaBloPoMo svg · 25 comments · 250 words · read ~50,065 times.
You may not realise it, but bandwidth is expensive. It costs you time, money, and battery power whenever you download a file larger than it needs to be. That's why I've become a little bit obsessed with SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics. They're the closest thing to magic that the web has when it comes […]
Continue reading →By @edent · NaBloPoMo presentations svg · 350 words · read ~518 times.
I do a lot of talks and presentations - sometimes in boring conference centres, sometimes in pubs, and occasionally in the middle of a field. One of the things that I've learned is the audio-visual equipment is unreliable. The colours can be off, the projection can be blocked by detritus on stage, or the screen […]
Continue reading →By @edent · emoji linux png svg twitter · 2 comments · 350 words · read ~550 times.
The Video EVERY EMOJI! pic.twitter.com/2fCUqwu67c — Terence Eden is on Mastodon (@edent) October 24, 2017 Download the WEBM version (19MB). The Process Mostly notes to myself, but I thought you lot might be interested 🙂 Get Every Emoji from Twemoji Twitter maintain the Twemoji Project - it contains high quality SVGs of every emoji. They […]
Continue reading →By @edent · svg twitter · 250 words · read ~1,452 times.
Five years ago, Twitter updated its logo and demonstrated that it could be made entirely of circles. Interestingly, the official Twitter logo doesn't use circles directly. So, here is an SVG I've made which is only circles: Or, without the edges, and no transparency: And the raw code: <svg height="100" viewBox="0 0 100 100" width="100" […]
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