Wandering Thoughts archives

2025-06-20:	Quick numbers on how common HTTP/2 is on our departmental web server
2025-06-12:	What would a multi-user web server look like? (A thought experiment)
2025-05-29:	My blocking of some crawlers is an editorial decision unrelated to crawl volume
2025-05-25:	A thought on JavaScript "proof of work" anti-scraper systems
2025-05-23:	What keeps Wandering Thoughts more or less free of comment spam (2025 edition)
2025-05-21:	Thinking about what you'd want in a modern simple web server
2025-05-08:	In Apache, using OIDC instead of SAML makes for easier testing
2025-05-02:	The HTTP status codes of responses from about 22 hours of traffic to here (part 2)
2025-04-24:	Chrome and the burden of developing a browser
2025-04-17:	The appeal of serving your web pages with a single process
2025-04-12:	Mandatory short duration TLS certificates are probably coming soon
2025-03-13:	Doing multi-tag matching through URLs on the modern web
2025-03-11:	Some views on the common Apache modules for SAML or OIDC authentication
2025-03-10:	The web browser as an enabler of minority platforms
2025-02-21:	HTTP connections are part of the web's long tail
2025-02-17:	More potential problems for people with older browsers
2025-02-16:	The HTTP status codes of responses from about 21 hours of traffic to here
2025-02-07:	Web application design and the question of what is a "route"
2025-02-02:	Web spiders (or people) can invent unfortunate URLs for your website
2025-01-26:	Some learning experiences with HTTP cookies in practice
2025-01-25:	Syndication feeds here are now rate-limited on a per-IP basis
2025-01-22:	More features for web page generation systems doing URL remapping
2025-01-03:	The programmable web browser was and is inevitable
2025-01-01:	The modern web is why web browsers don't have "nice things" (platform APIs)

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