Daniel @da@mastodon.technology
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What should you <link rel=dns-prefetch> and when to use preconnect instead. Also, Firefox doesn’t support this performance optimization on HTTPS websites. 20% of HTTPS websites deploy it, though. #webperf
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/dns-prefetch-preconnect.html#src=mastodon
Risks in renting your PC to FluidStack for “up to $50/month”.
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/fluidstack-cloud-residential-isp.html#src=mastodon
The Cubbit NAS is an IoT datacenter-trojan for your home.
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/cubbit-home-datacenter.html#src=mastodon
All the spam I’ve received in the last few days starts off with “Dear patrons”. I guess SpamAssasin and its cousins have been trained on that as a particularly non-spammy greeting.
Is it just me or does “The Unicode Consortium” sound like an evil and oppressive organization from a sci-fi novel? I’m all for their work, but they sound hella evil for being the group in charge of standardizing what (the characters, glyphs, and symbols) we communicate.
Evolution of the Scrollbar #UX #design
https://scrollbars.matoseb.com/
Russia internet: Law introducing new censorship controls comes into force. #Runet
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50259597
Why pay for Grammarly Premium when you’re the one doing all the work?
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/grammarly-free-labor.html#src=mastodon
I can’t decide if I should set my pretty face as the profile photo here or not.
New feature in Firefox 71: It can now consume all my 32 GB of RAM when I double-click the address field while it’s also decoding a video.
Google shouldn’t be the only source of interest-based web recommendations.
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/web-discovery.html#src=mastodon
This Video Is Sponsored By ███ VPN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY
(reviewing the claims in VPN ads)
Mobile data prices fall across low and middle income countries
https://webfoundation.org/2019/10/mobile-data-prices-fall-across-low-and-middle-income-countries/
@jeremiahlee Regarding your blog post and translator extension. Did you see the news from the last couple of days regarding Firefox getting native client-side translations? They got EU funding to work on more privacy-friendly client-side translations, if the reports are right.
The build system says a file doesn’t exist (it does), but it is well-behaved and never complains when observed with strace or inotifywatch).
Don’t you just love wasting a whole day chasing a #Heisenbug?
The open-source Joplin note-taking app is good on desktop but fails to impress on Android.
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/review-joplin-notes.html
Immediately close the tab if you click on a link and it starts loading a page from Blogspot even you didn’t expect that. Seen a lot of scams abuse Blogspot blogs to capture your browser in the last few weeks.
Optimize your HTML <head> metadata for better GZIP compression-rates (exploiting this one weird bit-reduction efficiency trick).
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/html-meta-order-compression.html
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