Benefits of HTTP/3 Protocol
Benefits of HTTP/3 Protocol Benefits of HTTP/3 over HTTP/2 — When will you notice H3 the most?
Clean Fast Basic Webfonts – Verdana, Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif
Clean Fast Basic Webfonts – Verdana, Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif Short version: there isn’t one “standard” browser font. Browsers map the generic families (serif, sans-serif, monospace) to OS-specific defaults. Typical defaults (factory settings) (Users and distro packages can change these, but that’s the common baseline.) Verdana vs generic sans-serif “Times sans” vs “just sans” Practical … Read more
Targeted Keywords as Domain Names
Targeted Keywords as Domain Names No SEO upside: Buying lots of keyword domains and pointing each at a subsection of your main site doesn’t help rankings; at best it’s neutral, and at worst it looks like a “doorway” setup and can hurt you. Use one canonical domain, build out topic pages in subfolders, and 301-redirect … Read more
Dependency Injection in Modern and Legacy PHP
Dependency Injection in Modern and Legacy PHP A decade or two on, Tom Butler’s (Tom B Zombie) DICE remains the smallest, quickest, easiest and arguably fastest amongst all small to mid to large projects — reportedly compilation of Symfony, PHP-DI or others finally bests DICE, but projects ‘huge enough’ to matter are uncommon. Here’s the … Read more
Lenny Interviews Nick Hurley VP of ChatGPT
Lenny Interviews Nick Hurley VP of ChatGPT Right tech, right time. You won’t know what to polish until you ship. Over 700 million active weekly users (10% of humanity). Billions in income. First major podcast interview. https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/inside-chatgpt-nick-turley In ChatGPT, the “GPT” stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer. So “ChatGPT” basically means: a chat system built on … Read more
What caused the incredible slow-down of NetSuite that had previously run at Barely Tolerable Speed (ie, 5 seconds per page load)
What caused the incredible slow-down of NetSuite that had previously run at Barely Tolerable Speed (ie, 5 seconds per page load) Of course nothing else ‘on our end’ had changed. The dataset size was not even into the hundreds-of-thousands of rows. Business operation 1-10 employees. Not all workloads belong in a giant datacenter 1,000 miles … Read more
Timeline of General Browser Consistency, Stability
Timeline of General Browser Consistency, Stability Coding to the Future; Quirking to the Past When web browsers became “stable” in the sense that HTML, CSS, and JavaScript behaved consistently enough across the major players (and quirks like “multiple classes not working” basically disappeared), that transition happened gradually, but there’s a clear inflection point. Timeline of … Read more
SEO 4 AI
SEO 4 AI If you want AI to show your content, you need to be seen as the go-to expert in your space. That means creating a lot of helpful content that covers your main topics and the smaller questions people ask around them. Think of your website like a library. The more complete it … Read more
SANDi Microsoft predecessor to Siri Alexa etc
SANDi Microsoft predecessor to Siri Alexa etc SANDI (Speech Application Natural Dialog Interface) was an early 2000s voice-driven platform developed by Microsoft, primarily aimed at enabling voice applications over the telephone network. It was part of Microsoft’s broader effort to integrate speech recognition and natural language processing into mainstream computing, and was tied closely to … Read more
Simple Good CAPTCHA for WP
Simple Good CAPTCHA for WP WPBRUISER WPBruiser (formerly “Goodbye Captcha”) is a non-CAPTCHA anti-spam plugin for WordPress that works by detecting bots before they can submit spam — without requiring any user interaction (like solving CAPTCHAs). It’s designed to stop spam on: 🔍 How WPBruiser Works WPBruiser uses a JavaScript-based behavioral analysis approach. Here’s what … Read more