Bawolff's rants

 Recently I've been helping Yaron do some SPARQL query optimization for his site Commons Walkabout . Its a cool site. It lets you explor...

 I was going to write a new years post. Suddenly it's almost February. Last year I had the goal of writing at least 1 blog post a month....

 The most recent issue of the Wikipedia Signpost published an article I wrote about the {{calculator}} series of templates, which I worked...

One thing you aren't allowed to do when writing pages in MediaWiki, is use SVG elements. You can include SVG files, but you can't dy...

This November, the company Flatt put out three XSS challenges - https://challenge-xss.quiz.flatt.training/ ( source code at https://github....

 Recently I decided to make a Hashtags extension for MediaWiki. The idea is - if you add something like #foo to your edit summary, that beco...

 Last weekend I competed in SekaiCTF. I spent most of the competition focusing on one problem - htmlsandbox . This was quite a challenge. It...