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CDN

Budget CDNs BunnyCDN, KeyCDN, and CDNSun compared

Compare three budget content delivery networks to find which one gets you the most bang for your bucks. Minimum pricing varies greatly.

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CDN

Which CDN providers support stale-while-revalidate?

A quick review of which content delivery networks support RFC 5861’s Stale-While-Revalidate and Stale-If-Error caching directives.

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Advertisement Technology

Podcasters should embrace programmatic ad insertion

Host-read ads can damage trust. Podcasts should either use different people to read their ads or embrace programmatically inserted ads.

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CDN

How to test for HTTP stale-while-revalidate support?

Verify that your CDN or caching proxy supports RFC 5861 asynchronous cache revalidation through the stale-while-revalidate HTTP response directive.

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Codecs

Microsoft adds Ogg, Theora, and Vorbis media formats to Windows 10

Windows 10 adds support for three new open-source multimedia codecs, Theora for video and Vorvis for audio, and the Ogg multimedia container format.

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Web Browsers

Native content blocking in Firefox without installing any extensions

Firefox has a built-in content blocker but you’ll need external tools to use it to block anything.

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Hypertext

Save-Data aware HTTP/2 server push

Learn how to set up HTTP Save-Data request-hint aware HTTP/2 server push with Apache HTTPD and Nginx web servers.

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Advertisement Technology

Podcast hosts shouldn’t read ads to maintain trust

Hosts erode trust when reading advertiser messages on their shows. Programmatic ads may be the only way to maintain trust.

Authentication and Passwords

I regret transferring my domains to Hover

Ads had promised me that Hover.com was a great domain registrar. Trusting them to handle my domains turned out to be a big mistake.

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Hardware

Charge devices faster with a new USB 3.1 Type-C controller

How upgrading the USB 3.1 PCIe controller on my mainboard let my devices quick-charge over USB 3.1. Plus, it’s nice to add more USB ports to your PC.

Documentation for Cache-Control plugin for WordPress

Learn how to use the Cache-Control plugin for WordPress to improve your website’s cacheability and page-loading performance.

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