Podcasters should embrace programmatic ad insertion
On the web, few companies are wiling to pay for advertisements that aren’t targeted to their ideal customer – or at the very least a customer in their target market. However, in…
How-to test for HTTP stale-while-revalidate support?
stale-while-revalidate is a useful extension to the HTTP Cache-Control response header. The header instructs intermediary caches that they can fulfill requests by returning resources that have expired from the cache for some…
Microsoft adding Ogg, Theora, and Vorbis open media formats to Windows 10
Just last week, Microsoft announced it would migrate their Groove Music subscribers to Spotify – a streaming music service which is probably the web’s largest user of the Vorbis audio codec. This…
Native content blocking in Firefox without installing any extensions
Firefox lets you block permissions per domain for many things including the permission to load images and scripts. This can be used in lieu of a more advanced content- or ad blocking…
Save-Data aware HTTP/2 server push
Server initiated push is a new feature in HTTP/2 that can greatly improve page load performance by pushing critical resources to the client without requiring the client to request the download first.…
Podcast hosts should distance themselves more from the ads they read to maintain trust
Podcasts “leverage the relationship between a show host and their listeners” to push products and services in their adspots. I recently had a frustrating experience where I realized that I had internalized…
I regret transferring my domains to Hover
I got a bit upset with my old domain registrar, and wanted to move my .blog domain away from them as quickly as possible. In my rush to transfer to a new…
Speeding up device charging with a new USB 3.1 controller and a Type-C connector
My computer’s mainboard, an , has a USB 3.1 Type-C connector port. However, it’s power delivery capabilities were quite underwhelming. I thought I’d look into the issue with a USB multimeter to…
Accelerate redirects with HTTP/2 server push
You can achieve low-latency responses to redirects with HTTP/2 by pushing the resource at the redirected location along with the response that informs the web browser about the redirect. It’s even easy…
FSFE: Publicly funded software has to be Free
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has published an open letter to EU legislators calling for new legislation that will require code paid for by the people to be made available as…