semi-interactively explains how TLS works, very cool

an extremely based frontend manual from the GOV.UK

a really fun (albeit somewhat impractical) way to compress webpages when all you have is browser APIs

how user agents became a lying mess

a paper explaining some reasons not to trust Matrix. includes pearls like “a homeserver can silently add user to a E2EE group and decrypt all the following messages and that’s not considered a vulnerability”.

A bottom-up, animated guide to HTTP load balancing algorithms.

In this blog, we go on an interactive journey to understand common queueing strategies for handling HTTP requests.

microforum in DNS TXT records

May be a replacement for a current postfix+dovecot+rspamd+L+ratio setup. Notably supports JMAP, although most clients don’t anyways.

Looks super cool, I’ll have to remember it when I next need to do network diagnostics.

A fascinating tale about network problems.

A distributed network that allows you to add host-independent repo identifier as a git origin. Looks like it worth a try, especially with sr.ht being down and Codeberg half-broken because of a DDoS attack.

The Go standard library’s net.IP type is problematic for a number of reasons. We wrote a new one.

This post explores some problems with Go’s “simplicity by design”: introducing a better IP type that’s also interoperable with the language proves to be a non-trivial challenge.

A lot about sockets, syscalls and bits

A website/game that allows you to create some DNS entries and see what happens.