HTTP Caching
Syndication feed deltas help reduce subscription bandwidth costs
Feed delta updates strip away feed entries that the subscriber has already download and only transmits the update delta consisting of new entries.
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Syndication feeds
Feed Delta Updates plugin for WordPress
Reduce the bandwidth cost of your WordPress news feeds (‘RSS’) using Feed Deltas. Only deliver what’s changed since the subscriber last pulled the feed.
WordPress
Plugin for deleting commenters’ IP addresses from WordPress
How to automatically delete the IP address of commenters from your WordPress database. Get GDPR-ready by minimizing user data after its no longer useful.
HTTP Caching
The Vary HTTP response header explained
Learn about the HTTP Vary response header and its important role in HTTP content negotiation and caching. Vary is an important but little-known part of HTTP.
Hypertext
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.
Gaming
Top 3 management games of 2016 for Linux
Three of my favorite new city-builders and management games in 2016 are all available for Linux through Steam.
Linux
Set up distributed compilation with Icecream in Fedora Linux
How to speed up compilation time with Icrecream/icecc by setting up distributed compilation using all PCs available to you.
Networking
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.
Advertisement Technology
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.
Microsoft Windows
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?
Gaming
Xbox Play Anywhere and EA
Why can’t I play my Windows PC games cross-platform on the Xbox One?
Advertisement Technology
Whatever happen to Google Contributor?
Google seems to have abandoned its Google Contributor program: the subscription service where you could outbid awful ads across the web for a monthly subscription.