Daniel @da@mastodon.technology

How Coil’s micro-payment service and the Web Monetization API works compared to Flattr. 💰
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/coil-web-monetization.html

Why Syncthing kept deleting my files as I re-created them.
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/syncthing-deletes-recreated-files.html

Evolving rel="nofollow" – new ways to identify the nature of links
https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/09/evolving-nofollow-new-ways-to-identify.html

"We value your privacy. That's why we're asking permission to tell hundreds of companies about your visit to our website. We may have opted you in and have already shared this data (a GDPR violation) or have made this dialog so confusion you'll have no idea what your choices are (also a violation)." Remember, the GDPR requires these prompts to be easy to understand and not disruptive.

Normalize fridge temperatures (and save on electricity) by installing a left-over PC fan.
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/fridge-pc-fan.html

Your online identity is owned by your email provider.
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/email-identity-provider.html

@jlelse stick your RSS as a sitemap in /robots.txt too. Robots like delta-sitemaps just as much as full sitemaps.

macOS Catalina beta is the first time in yeeeears that I’ve had a tons of problem with just regular file management in Finder. Betas in previous years have only had minor issues in these areas. There are just so many basic operations that don’t work properly.

What are the laws around discount marketing in the US? Can you really market a service as being “X% off” all the time and never charge the supposed full price?

Making code examples fit and remain readable on small and large screens is an under-appreciated art form.

Delivering Fast and Light Applications with the HTTP Save-Data header
https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/optimizing-content-efficiency/save-data/

Tutorial: Testing whether your Bluetooth peripherals support BLE Privacy (randomized broadcast addresses).
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/tutoiral-test-ble-privacy.html

PC components generally don’t degrade over time, so what caused my 7-year old 1st-gen. Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon running Windows 10 to become unbearably slow and crashy?
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/slow-windows-hvci.html

@octet33 I assume you've read this series? https://gizmodo.com/c/goodbye-big-five

Real curious what is up with the multi-day Galileo outage. 🇪🇺🛰🗺

So what's happening with Galileo? EU's #GNSS global navigation satellite system. It's been down for days.
https://www.gsc-europa.eu/system-status/Constellation-Information

Given a HTML list were the last element is a "show more" link, how do you set the tabfocus to the first newly inserted list element?

“Metadata is a love note to the future.”
― Jason Scott, Internet Archive