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Update (2021-01-15): Brave Software liked my feedback and are working on adding IPFS to the Delete browsing data dialog. See issue #7578.

The official Raspberry Pi accessory distributor conundrum

Update (2020-12-30): The Swedish retailer Kjell (an RS Components reseller) began accepting pre-orders for the Raspberry Pi 400 with a Norwegian keyboard layout on 2020-12-18 (two days after I researched and wrote this article). Kjell doesn’t list an estimated availability date. Neither CPC nor Kjell lists just the Norwegian keyboard accessory, though. The Raspberry Pi Foundation added Jkollerup as a distributor of the Norwegian keyboard layout Raspberry Pi keyboard accessory on 2020-12-19.

Get the Apple News app for macOS in unsupported regions

Article updated at 2020-12-22.

I replaced the aging battery on my MacBook Pro

Update (2020-12-02): The battery capacity issue seems to have been caused by a calibration error in the battery controller. The battery would drop from 42 % to 7 % and remain there for a few hours. I failed to notice this and though it needed to be recharged. After I noticed the pattern, I just kept using the MacBook at 7 % charge until it powered off roughly three hours later. I then charged it back up to 100 %. After doing this once, the battery now reports the right charge level, and the battery life has increased to about eight hours.

Save-Data aware HTTP/2 server push

Update (2020-11-30): Chrome has announced plans to remove support for server push.

Accelerate redirects with HTTP/2 server push

Update (2020-11-30): This didn’t turn out quite the way I’d envisioned. Chrome has announced plans to remove support for server push.

Which CDN providers support stale-while-revalidate?

Update (2020-11-23): Corrected table to reflect that Cloudflare does not support asynchronous background revalidation.

Update (2020-11-23): Both Brave for Linux, macOS, and Windows; and Onion Browser for iOS has added support for Onion-Location. Neither browsers are affiliated with the Tor Project, but can connect to the Tor Onion network.

Update (2020-11-12): The above assumption is no longer the default. Starting with version 33, Fedora no longer creates a swap partition by default, but relies on ZRAM instead. You still need a storage drive backed swap partition as you still can’t swap volatile memory into itself when the system powers down.

Inconsistent user-experiences with native lazy-loading images

Update (2020-10-29): Firefox 81 (due for release in 2021-Q1) will introduce a new default omnidirectional root margin of 300px.

Update (2020-10-15): I published this article right before the release of Firefox 71, so I completely missed that preconnect stopped working in the very next version! It still doesn’t work today in Firefox 81.

How to label a webpage as being out-of-date

Article updated at 2020-10-08.