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Feed Delta Updates plugin for WordPress

Reduce the bandwidth cost of your WordPress RSS feeds using Feed Deltas.

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Plugin for deleting commenters’ IP addresses from WordPress

How to automatically delete the IP address of commenters from your WordPress database.

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The Vary HTTP response header explained

Learn about the HTTP Vary response header and its important role in HTTP content negotiation and caching.

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Why are ‘what to read next’ article recommendations so terrible?

The Recommended articles sections below articles are a mess. Incredibly simple steps could improve the recommendations.

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Top 3 management games of 2016 for Linux

My favorite city-builders and management games for Linux.

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Set up distributed compilation with Icecream in Fedora

How to speed up compilation time with Icrecream/icecc by setting up distributed compilation using all PCs available to you.

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PHP: Making file_get_contents() more routing-robust and dual-stack

Make your network-based file_get_contents() request more reliable by having it not give up so easily and try multiple network routes and protocols instead.

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Google Contributor program stops accepting new subscribers

Google has completely abandoned its innovative Google Contributor program that was set to reinvent how the web is funded.

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Your control is limited to Active Hours in Windows 10

Microsoft insists on rebooting your PC every day. Active Hours control gives users up to eight hours a day without reboots. Is this enough?

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Xbox Play Anywhere and EA

Why can’t I play my Windows PC games cross-platform on the Xbox One?

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Whatever happen to Google Contributor?

Google seems to has abandoned its Google Contributor program.

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eSATA port-multiplier only shows up as a single disk in Windows 10

I tested multiple eSATA port-multipliers in Windows 10 but all of them refused to show more than one connected disk.

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