Seth Honda is the founder and developer of 404. He is a high school computer science and literature teacher with a background in bioinformatics and community outreach. He grew up in Hawaii and builds software in his spare time.
The defaults are easy because someone made them that way. Firebase, Supabase, Auth0, Google Sign-In. These solutions are well-documented, widely used, and take about twenty minutes to integrate. That convenience is real, but
At the school where I teach, teachers stand in the hallway during passing periods. Admin tells us it's because "our presence has power." The idea is simple: an authority
When companies get caught doing this sort of thing, the response is almost always the same: "we're using this technology to combat fraud," or "ensure positive user experience,
Why the ad industry replaced cookies with something you can't block
In 2018, GDPR became enforceable. In the years that followed, state privacy laws and the widespread adoption of ad blockers
