Even as the number of frontend programming vulnerabilities grows continually, many are not difficult to combat; you simply need to remember to fortify your frontend security against them.
- Maybe, simply start with the HTML5 Security Cheat Sheet which is what this post set out to do
- Protect
<a href="..." target="_blank">vulnerability to hacked target page by includingrel="noopener noreferrer". See Target=”_blank” – the most underestimated vulnerability ever

Here is a simple Web 1.5 (static HTML with a little bit of styling and JavaScript) recipe to allow a viewer of your web page to see the PHP source-code, behind it, with a minimal amount of JavaScript and a little CSS manipulation—good for showing the work you’ve done to others. Or for embedding in your own source, in debug mode, so that teammates can see each others’ work.
Crushed Under the Tower of Software-Babble
I think my brain cells are shrinking—it is unbelievable how quickly I forget. Such is the life of a software developer, these days.It is amazing how quickly I can forget the details of one programming language detail over another after just a few weeks away—when I see my old code, I amaze myself at how good a programmer I was… last month! Read the rest of this entry »
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