CalDAV
Windows 10’s “Interesting Calendars” feature is powered by webcal/iCal
New Windows Calendar feature is just standard webcal subscriptions but interestingly you can’t add your own webcals.
Open Standards
CalDAV
How to add an iCal/webcal calendar to the Calendar app in Windows 10
Learn how to work-around Windows 10 limitations to add iCal and webcal calendars to the Windows Calendar app through Outlook.com.
Hypertext
EdgeDeflector enforces your default browser setting in Windows
EdgeDeflector stops Windows from forces-opening links in Microsoft Edge, and makes Windows respect the system-wide default web browser setting instead.
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.
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.
Microsoft Windows
How to enable Remote Desktop (RDP) in Windows 10 Home
Windows 10 Home edition has a built-in remote desktop access (RDP) server. Unlock it with this free utility program. However, enabling it is a big security risk.
Apache HTTPD
New Brotli compression filter module now in Apache Web Server
Learn how to enable the new Brotli compression module alongside Gzip compression in the Apache HTTPD server.
P2P
Set up a seedbox via distributed BitTorrent (DHT)
Ensure reliable and long-term content distribution over BitTorrent with a dedicated seedbox. All you need is a small server or a cloud VPS.
HTTP Caching
Cache-Control plugin for WordPress
Take control over your WordPress site’s HTTP Cache-Control response header directives with my easy-to-use WordPress plugin.
Open Standards
Provide icons for web apps in GNOME Web (Epiphany)
Get the details on how GNMOE Web (formerly Epiphany) uses favicons and other website assets when installing websites as web apps on the Linux desktop.
Open Standards
Robot discrimination: No robots allowed, except Googlebot
A survey shows how many websites discriminate against and block all search engines and spiders except GoogleBot in their /robots.txt files.
Open Standards
Explore some of the lesser-known robots.txt search directives
I’ve analyzed dozens of search engines and the robots.txt file of millions of websites. Here are my list of some of the more arcane robots.txt directives.