[HN Gopher] Show HN: Randomize HTML content to test your defensi...
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       Show HN: Randomize HTML content to test your defensive CSS
        
       Author : mathnmusic
       Score  : 97 points
       Date   : 2021-12-11 08:15 UTC (14 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (cleartax.github.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (cleartax.github.io)
        
       | indicate wrote:
       | This is similar to Chaos Engineering[0]
       | 
       | [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_engineering
        
       | oriettaxx wrote:
       | is this the first time randomization is applied to HTML?
       | 
       | cool!
        
       | SCHiM wrote:
       | Had you run this on old IE versions, you'd have made a decent
       | fuzzer! If this program ever tries to put a table inside a button
       | it'd have found a couple of crashes for sure.
        
       | klysm wrote:
       | I like the idea of sampling the other side of your API in a
       | stochastic manner. That concept seems widely applicable.
        
       | ratherlongname wrote:
       | Love cleartax, maybe I'm a bit biased because it was founded by
       | one of my alumnus (from IITG).
       | 
       | Always love seeing projects that indicate focus on code quality
       | and better practices, esp. from Indian companies.
       | 
       | It shows that despite the general culture of doing more in less,
       | frugality, etc; still someone was able to focus on doing
       | something right and making it open source too!
        
         | twayDec1121 wrote:
         | n=1 but I remember interviewing with them in 2014-15 and their
         | founder (Archit) came across as really lacking humility.
         | 
         | He called people from big companies as lazy (I was coming from
         | a BigCo). At one point, he laughed when I mentioned writing
         | code in a language he felt was outdated.
         | 
         | And of course like any toxic startup they expected me to work 6
         | days a week.
        
           | keewee7 wrote:
           | >And of course like any toxic startup they expected me to
           | work 6 days a week.
           | 
           | Is that significantly different from other workplaces in
           | India?
        
             | twayDec1121 wrote:
             | it's definitely not the norm, though was still relatively
             | common then.
             | 
             | But it was a huge red flag then, and is a bigger red flag
             | today.
             | 
             | Cleartax was also among the "no equity for employees" club
             | though they went back on it after a while if I remember
             | correctly. But yeah, they were not an employee friendly
             | company by any metric then.
             | 
             | Edit: I just searched Blind after writing this and looks
             | like they have maintained the culture
        
       | claviska wrote:
       | This reminds me of Dan Cederholm's Bulletproof Web Design, which
       | coincidentally inspired me to adapt the paradigm to component
       | development earlier this week.
       | 
       | https://www.abeautifulsite.net/posts/bulletproof-components/
       | 
       | Randomizing content is a great technique to test for this.
        
         | _puk wrote:
         | It may be a shameless plug to your blog post, but that led me
         | to your library shoelace[0], so thank you!
         | 
         | 0: https://shoelace.style/
        
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