Following in Amazon's footsteps, two student projects independently use 'collaborative filtering' to bring recommendations and social networking to online music; soon they will join forces.
On the return of texture, depth, and expressiveness in UI.
You’ve got a monopoly on lemonade because you pay all the grocery stores to be the default lemonade. So we’re going to force you sell your car. What’s with the weird redirect? If …
Deep-diving on the load performance of F1 websites.
Porffor can run on Lambda now!
Personal blog and portfolio site
SSL requirements are quickly becoming obnoxious.
The five most popular JS frameworks – Angular, React, Vue, Svelte and Blazor – use different rendering strategies, and it shows.
As Cory Doctorow once said "Any time that someone puts a lock on something that belongs to you but won't give you the key, that lock's not there for you." But here's the thing with the LCP DRM scheme; they do give you the key! As I've written about previously, LCP mostly relies on the user entering their password (the…
Around 97% of US households have internet access, but bandwidth and latency are likely worse than you expect.
Walkthrough of the various parts and concepts in Bluesky's AT Protocol (ATProto), the types of servers involved and how it all fits together
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I hate ads. I also hate tracking and bloat. But I didn't actually hate the latter quite enough to get rid of Disqus for comments. It was a free, good service, and you could turn off ads for the users (which I did).
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
If you don't care about the explanation and want a direct link to the simulation, here you go .
A static site with version control history enables me to travel into any point in the project’s past and serve the site as it was back in the day.
And by LLMS I mean: (L)ots of (L)ittle ht(M)l page(S). I recently shipped some updates to my blog. Through the design/development process, I had some insights…
Compare static web hosting performance on an Intel N150 using the same nginx.conf across FreeBSD jails, SmartOS zones, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux, focusing on HTTP vs HTTPS and TLS CPU usage.
If your service needs to trust the clients, hold my Big Mac
A Love Story Between Two Amazing Languages 🦀💜
Achieving Data Freedom Through Open Source and Rust
Based on the latest tests I've published, Django LiveView appears to be the fastest dynamic frontend (I'm sure more variables can be measured). OK…
This article describes my nginx configuration and strategy on how to prevent web crawlers from putting down my instance while still serving most people with minimal amount of friction.
You can make your own website. This guide can help anyone make a website with HTML and CSS. You can make a personal site, link tree, hobby site, digital garden, fansite, or any other website you want. It's fun, and easy enough for a 12-year-old.
Some thoughts in support of simple solutions.
Recently, Google introduced E2E encryption in Gmail. It went bad.
