Your web browsers are slowing down your Time Machine backups
You probably use your web browser more than any other application on your Mac and it’s causing slow Time Machine backups that fill up with non-essential…
PHP HTML Tidy ironically doesn’t tidy up after itself
I learned HTML and the value of open readable source code back in the day through looking at the sources of the websites of the time…
Distributed web not ready for Runet cutoff from the Internet
Russia is preparing a nation-wide experiment where the whole country temporarily disconnects from the global Internet to see if the country can rely on Runet alone.…
Well-Known URI vs DNS-SD for routing distributed web service discovery around internet censorship
In this article, I want to discuss the use of Well-Known URIs and DNS based service discovery (DNS-SD) methods for mapping domain names to resources on…
Enabling both .onion and .i2p routing with Proxy Auto-Configuration
You can browse Tor hidden services (example.onion) and I2P services (example.i2p) by configuring your operating system and web browser’s proxy configuration to point to the local…
Android apps time out connections after setting up a PAC proxy configuration
Android added support for adding Proxy Auto-Configuration (PAC) configuration profiles to Wi-Fi network in Android 6 “Marshmallow”. Android 7 “Nougat” introduced a bug that causes almost…
Chrome is right to remove the webRequest extension API
…but the proposed declarativeNetRequest API isn’t a good replacement. So where does that leave us?
Tranco: An improved free top websites ranking list
Comparing secondary authoritative DNS service providers
A secondary authoritative DNS (sometimes called “slave DNS”) service provider is a DNS name server that clones and hosts your primary DNS server over the DNS…
Reporting emails to SpamCop actually stop spammers
A persistent spammer led me to explore options for taking action against their obnoxious bulk emailer. SpamCop proved to be an effective solution to disrupt the…
