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Daily Edition · Page 4

THE DAILY INDEX

Technology, AI, software, security, crypto and business

ARTICLES & TUTORIALS

TLDR Dev

TLDR Dev

REVERSE ENGINEERING IWORK

This dev created a Swift package called WorkKit to directly parse iWork files (.key, .numbers, and .pages) without requiring export to other formats or server-side processing. This involved reverse engineering the iWork binary format, which uses Google's Protocol Buffers, and extracting the schemas from the application executables. WorkKit maps type IDs to Swift classes, decompresses the Snappy-compressed data, and uses a two-pass system to load and merge document content, which is then exposed to provide decoded data.

andrews.substack.com · 24 min

TLDR Dev

CONTEXT INHERITANCE IN TANSTACK ROUTER

TanStack Router's context inheritance feature allows state and type information to flow from parent routes to child routes in a type-safe manner. Path parameters, search parameters, and router context can be defined on parent routes and automatically become available to all child routes with full TypeScript inference. This creates a system where child components gain access to all accumulated state throughout their parent route hierarchy.

tkdodo.eu · 6 min

TLDR Dev

THE HISTORY OF CORE WEB VITALS

Core Web Vitals was launched by Google in May 2020 as a set of standardized metrics that measure user experience by assessing website loading speed, interactivity, and visual stability. The initiative was meant to be a more open approach to improve web performance, and has reportedly saved Chrome users over 30,000 years of waiting time through 2024 by encouraging website optimization. These metrics were developed based on research showing that pages meeting the Core Web Vitals thresholds see 24% fewer user abandonments.

addyosmani.com · 8 min

TLDR Dev

HOW FIRST WAP TRACKS PHONES AROUND THE WORLD

An investigation uncovered a massive archive of data showing the global phone-tracking activities of a company called First Wap. First Wap's tool, Altamides, exploits vulnerabilities in the SS7 telecom protocol to track phone locations worldwide without detection on the device itself. The data showed that First Wap tracked thousands of individuals, including journalists, dissidents, and even individuals like Anne Wojcicki, using this method.

lighthousereports.com · 14 min

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