Wandering Thoughts archives

2013-12-29:	Broad thoughts on tags for blog entries
2013-12-27:	A reason to keep tags external in 'entry as file' blog engines
2013-12-24:	The 'entry as file' blog engine problem with tags
2013-12-20:	A realization: on the modern web, everything gets visited
2013-12-19:	Your (HTML) template language should have conditionals
2013-12-14:	Why I'm not likely to use Chrome much in the future
2013-11-24:	Baidu's web spider ignores `robots.txt` (at least sometimes)
2013-11-22:	My hack use for Chrome's Incognito mode
2013-11-09:	Google Feedfetcher is still fetching feeds and a `User-Agent` caution
2013-11-03:	Wikitext needs a better way of writing tables
2013-10-27:	Some things I've learned from transitioning a website to HTTPS
2013-10-19:	I should never have allowed 'outside' content to break my layout
2013-10-02:	What your `User-Agent` header should include and why
2013-09-11:	Understanding why CSRF protection really needs cookies
2013-09-07:	Good SSL for your website is absurdly difficult in practice
2013-09-04:	What (and how) I use HTML tables for layout here
2013-08-31:	HTML quoting as I currently understand it
2013-08-30:	I'm done with feeling guilty about using HTML tables for layout
2013-08-14:	The pragmatics of an HTTP to HTTPS transition
2013-08-05:	Who or what your website is for and more on HTTP errors
2013-08-03:	The paucity of generally useful HTTP error codes The pragmatic issues around HTTP error codes mattering (or not)
2013-07-25:	An important thing about security issues in HTTP error responses
2013-07-19:	Thinking about the security issues in HTTP 403 versus 404 errors
2013-07-17:	Do specific HTTP error codes actually matter?
2013-06-24:	How to get your syndication feed fetcher at least temporarily banned here
2013-06-08:	The Flickr redesign and knowing your site's focus
2013-06-05:	The case against blog sidebars
2013-05-31:	The mystery of `POST`s with a zero `Content-Length`
2013-05-24:	My issue with infinite scrolling web pages: the lack of a stopping point
2013-05-23:	Why web robots sending `Referer` headers is wrong
2013-05-21:	Diffbot's bad `Referer` header
2013-04-21:	Why a free SSL Certificate Authority is not horrifying
2013-04-17:	Some thoughts on going to HTTPS by default
2013-04-07:	The apparent source of my Firefox memory bloat problems
2013-03-25:	Rethinking avoiding Apache
2013-03-20:	Don't use ab for your web server stress tests (I like siege instead)
2013-03-14:	What I want out of a web-based syndication feed reader
2013-02-07:	Today's learning experience with CSS: don't be indirect
2013-02-05:	What makes DWiki and other dynamic file based blog engines slow
2013-02-04:	Dynamic web sites and blogs need not be slow, illustrated
2013-02-02:	A fundamental problem with the trackback protocol
2013-01-27:	How the modern web 2.0 social web irritates me by hiding discussions
2013-01-16:	How I drafted (okay, wrote) an entry in public by accident
2013-01-14:	Why JavaScript (or something like it) is in demand Good JavaScript usage is a good thing
2013-01-13:	Blogspot's massive web 1.0 failure
2013-01-06:	24 hours of Atom feed requests here

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