https://ericlim.dev/tags/media/ Recent content in media on /dev/eric Hugo -- gohugo.io en-GB Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:33:00 +1200 https://ericlim.dev/posts/20260722t123336--firefox-ddosing-our-home/ Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:33:00 +1200 https://ericlim.dev/posts/20260722t123336--firefox-ddosing-our-home/ A web app I was working on had a bug that only showed up in Firefox. Start a voice recording and the browser would hammer /, its own document root, with thousands of requests, roughly 100 a second, for as long as the recording ran. Chrome and Safari didn’t care. It came down to one empty string. The symptom The app has a voice-to-notes feature. You hit record, a live waveform draws from the mic, you stop, and it transcribes.