Personal data in cookies is bad. I accepted this for quite some time, until I actually stopped to think about it, and realised how much simpler our scaling would be if we could store a lot more state information in cookies.
Auto growing textareas
This feels like a topic that’s been explored to death already, but I really don’t like most implementations of this technique, so here’s how we do it.
First, in case anyone has just arrived from Mars, or even more unlikely, isn’t familiar with Facebook, the auto-growing textarea is a text box that gets bigger as you [...]