Tag: web
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Use a .dev domain? Not anymore.
Use a .dev domain? Not anymore. (medium.engineering) For years, programmers used .dev domains for testing their code. Those days are over.
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On This Day In 2005
On this day in 2005 Paul made the Internet a fraction of a percent more-weird by cooking and eating a "Birmingham Egg". Dan's just resurrected the web page about it. You know: for posterity.
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Web! What is it good for?
https://adactio.com/journal/9016 (adactio.com) You can listen to an audio version of Web! What is it good for? I have a blind spot. It’s the web. I just can’t get excited about the prospect of building something for any particular operating system, be it desktop or mobile. I think about the potential lifespan of what would be …
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My Blog Now Has a Content Security Policy - Here's How I've Done It
My Blog Now Has a Content Security Policy - Here's How I've Done It (Troy Hunt) I've long been a proponent of Content Security Policies (CSPs). I've used them to fix mixed content warnings on this blog after Disqus made a little mistake, you'll see one adorning Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) and I even …
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Improving URLs for AMP pages
Improving URLs for AMP pages (Accelerated Mobile Pages Project) TL;DR: We are making changes to how AMP works in platforms such as Google Search that will enable linked pages to appear under publishers’ URLs instead of the google.com/amp URL space while maintai… TL;DR: We are making changes to how AMP works in platforms such as …
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Reaching people on the internet
The Oatmeal
As somebody who likes to keep his content on his own server (y'know: right here!) but whose readers sometimes prefer that it's syndicated to e.g. Facebook (as it is), I appreciate this comic by The Oatmeal. -
Enabling IPv6 Support in nginx
This is going to be a really short post, but for someone it could save an hour of life.
So, you’ve nothing to do and you’ve decided to play around with IPv6 or maybe you’re happened to be an administrator of a web service that needs to support IPv6 connectivity and you need to make your … -
The Web began dying in 2014, here's how
Before the year 2014, there were many people using Google, Facebook, and Amazon. Today, there are still many people using services from those three tech giants (respectively, GOOG, FB, AMZN). Not much has changed, and quite literally the user interface and features on those sites has remained mostly untouched. However, the underlying dynamics of power …
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Fnorders
He's been kept away from blogging by Complicated Life Stuff, but that didn't stop Dan from making a thing.
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Sub-Pixel Problems in CSS
Something that jumped at me, recently, was a rendering dilemma that browsers have to encounter, and gracefully handle, on a day-by-day basis with little, to no, standardization.
Take the following page for example. You have 4 floated divs, each with a width of 25%, contained within a parent div of width 50px. Here’s the question: How … -
AMP Is Poisonous
AMP, Google's technology that tries to make the mobile web faster by giving Google a monopoly over it, is fucking poisonous and it destroys everything that makes the Web great. Reject AMP!
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Let them paste passwords
One of the things people often tweet to us @ncsc are examples of websites which prevent you pasting in a password. Why do websites do this? The debate has raged - with most commentators raging how annoying it is.
So why do organisations do this? Often no reason is given, but when one is, that reason … -
AMP: breaking news
Google has made much of their Accelerated Mobile Pages project as a solution to bloated websites and frustrated users. But could AMP actually be bad news for the web, bad news for news, and part of a trend of news distribution that is bad for society in general?
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Rails is f*cking boring! I love it.
Together with a friend I recently built Dropshare Cloud. We offer online storage for the file and screenshot sharing app Dropshare for macOS/iOS. After trying out Django for getting started (we both had some experience using Django) I decided to rewrite the codebase in Rails. My past experience developing in Rails made the process quick — and …
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TLS 1.3 FTW
In common slang, FTW is an acronym "for the win" and while that's appropriate here, I think a better expansion is "for the world."
We're pleased to announce that we have sponsored the development of TLS 1.3 in OpenSSL. As it is one of the most widely-used TLS libraries, it is a good investment for the …