HTML
How to use AddToAny as a fallback for the Web Share API
AddToAny offers privacy-by-default content-sharing and is well-suited as a light-weight falback to the native Web Share API.
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Web Browsers
What to <link rel=dns-prefetch> and when to use preconnect
Learn the difference between dns-prefecth vs preconnect, how to work around browser bugs, and when to use which? iOS and Safari requires special attention.
CDN
Risks with renting your home PC to FluidStack for “up to $50/month”
Your ISP and internet services may not be happy with you if you rent our your PC and IP through FluidStack. An effortless $50/month sure is tempting, though.
Storage
Cubbit NAS is an IoT datacenter-trojan for your home
Cubbit promises peer-to-peer redundancy for your data hosted by its other customers. They product will also act as a datacenter operated from your home.
Productivity
Why pay for Grammarly when you’re the one doing the work?
You’re the one paying for Grammarly. However, you’re also the one spending your time training and improving its machine-learning algorithm. Is that okay?
Google shouldn’t be the only source of interest-based recommendations
How do you keep up with all the new webpages talking about your favorite niche interests? There are few options but Google Discover.
Ruby
The curious case of the working-directory-changing Rakefile
Rake randomly ran into problems with non-existing files. That wasn’t the core issue. Instead, something interfered with the process’ working directory.
Search engines
Ctrl blog was unavailable in Bing Search for a month
Ctrl blog was nowhere to be found with Bing in September. I can only speculate on what I did to offend Bing. Link canonicalization may be to blame.
Note-taking
Review: Joplin note-taking app
The open-source note-taking app Joplin supports encryption and choose-your-own-cloud. Desktop app gets the job done, but the Android app is slow and clunky.
Web Monetization
How to make a vanity Payment Pointer for Web Monetization
The Web Monetization API uses Interledger Payment Pointer (ILP3) addresses to transfer funds. Here’s how to set up a short vanity ILP3 alias for your wallet.
HTML
Optimize your <head> metadata for better compression
Reduce the file size of compressed webpages by optimizing the order of <meta> and <link> elements in the document <head> section.
Note-taking
A sync bug in Standard Notes kept deleting my notes
The Standard Notes webapp kept either deleting or overwriting the unlucky note at the top of my notes list. It’s time to switch note-taking apps again.