Cookie banners: universally hated, legally complex, conversion killers.
What if you could get useful analytics without the hassle?
I've been testing cookieless analytics that eliminate banners entirely. Results are promising, but the legal landscape has nuances most miss.
Can you safely ditch cookie banners and still understand users? Here's what I learned:
https://www.rhelmer.org/blog/privacy-analytics-without-cookie-banners/
#GDPR #Analytics #Privacy #WebAnalytics #CookieBanners #UX #webdev
@graydon @shaver @tedmielczarek @dria @lmorchard @mhoye @SpiderMonkey @sayrer @jwz I always assumed it was from aviation, code was "in-flight" and then "landed" in the tree. Other terms borrowed include "go/no go", "pre-flight checks", etc.
Built a utility kit for Umami Analytics:
Umami Kit auto-tracks:
✅ Scroll depth
✅ Time on page
✅ Visibility
✅ Clicks (with full/manual control)
🍪 No cookies
🌐 Hosted on Vercel using subdomains (first-party)
🧩 Just add a script — works with no config
🔗 https://www.rhelmer.org/blog/automatic-event-tracking-with-umami-kit/
💻 https://github.com/rhelmer/umami-kit
#WebAnalytics #PrivacyFirst #OpenSource #JavaScript #Vercel #Umami
@VincentTunru haha fair! I suspect people are looking for more, I'm trying to be really lean on the analytics so I don't really have bounce rate. I need to investigate the more privacy-preserving options.
@VincentTunru I added animation to the web version on https://www.stellarwhiskers.com/rocket-reversi/ — still need to update the comparison post but it's getting decent traffic from people comparing Godot and SDL. Worth making it more comprehensive you think?
Something I made for my intro stats class a few years ago. Nobody really appreciated it, which is a tragedy because it's absolutely top-notch humor.
#shitpost #statistics #professor #mean #median #mode #dadjoke #pun
@hosebei there's a new profile manager coming soon, it's enabled in Firefox Nighty https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/try-out-firefox-profiles-in-nightly/m-p/84223
After 13+ yrs at Mozilla & 20+ in the industry, I'm exploring what's next. Seeking roles building scalable systems. Staff-level with a keen eye for optimization.
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It works a little better overall when running locally, if the web version looks zoomed-in try entering and exiting full screen mode.
A few years ago, I resurrected this old Python game Magicor: https://github.com/rhelmer/magicor — I noted a game-breaking bug https://github.com/rhelmer/magicor/issues/2 at the time, which was just fixed by a contributor. I have a WASM version that has a few cosmetic issues, I'll get that updated and find a good home on the web.
This game is nostalgic for me since my kids and I used to play it when they were very young, but I haven't been able to locate the author and it needed some porting to Python3 and latest Pygame, so it's been removed from Debian and other distros (where we used to play it). I think it'd be interesting to get it back into these, but having it on the web is also important for future-proofing and discoverability IMHO. It's at https://www.rhelmer.org/magicor/ for now.
Working on reproducing this "Othello is Solved" paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.19387 using OCaml. Recently started moving to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitboard and got "legal moves" working:
Quick post about re-writing my 17-year-old Breakout! clone https://www.rhelmer.org/blog/rewriting-17-year-old-breakout-game/ #webdev #gamedev
@VincentTunru the AI is the same (minimax with some manual weights to give preference to corners) but i have been working on the godot version for several weeks and quickly ripped out the animation code and other features and did an imperfect job of it. The reason I started down this track was to see how small I could get the godot WASM, most of it is the runtime and I couldn't get it below 10MB or so even with a lot of tricks (pure JS version is more like 10KB) so it was good enough for my selfish purposes. it's a good point though, I will update the code and video to make the versions as similar as possible when I have a moment.
I reimplemented the same game (Reversi) in Godot, Typescript and C+SDL to compare (so you don't have to!) https://www.rhelmer.org/blog/game-dev-c-sdl-vs-godot-vs-web/ #gamedev #webdev #godot
@corbin happens to the best of us :/ https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subdomain_takeovers
Someone was able to hijack a subdomain on my personal website to host a gambling website landing page, presumably because I left it forwarding to GitHub, and GitHub allowed someone else to connect it after I deleted the repository. Check your domains! #webdev #infosec
https://blog.corbin.io/post/772417532865970176/my-domain-got-hijacked-through-github
My old blog post about experimenting with React for the `about:addons` UI in Firefox (spoiler: Firefox uses Lit now) keeps getting search engine traffic for people looking for how to build browser extensions in React, so I made one that covers a bunch of frameworks: https://www.rhelmer.org/blog/browser-extension-popular-frameworks/
