Tag about-networking

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How computers talk.

2024-09-30

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Building a robust frontend using progressive enhancement - Service Manual - GOV.UK

www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/using-progressive-enhancement

an extremely based frontend manual from the GOV.UK

2024-09-07

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WebP: The WebPage compression format

purplesyringa.moe/blog/webp-the-webpage-compression-format

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

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WebAIM: History of the browser user-agent string

webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history

how user agents became a lying mess

2024-08-30

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Practically-exploitable Cryptographic Vulnerabilities in Matrix

nebuchadnezzar-megolm.github.io

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”.

2024-05-23

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Load Balancing

samwho.dev/load-balancing

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

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Queueing – An interactive study of queueing strategies

encore.dev/blog/queueing

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

2024-05-20

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bbs-over-dns

bbs-over-dns.com

microforum in DNS TXT records

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stalwart: all-in-one mail server

github.com/stalwartlabs/mail-server

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

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A Nix DSL for defining DNS zones

github.com/nix-community/dns.nix
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trippy: A network diagnostic tool

github.com/fujiapple852/trippy

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

2024-02-06

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The little ssh that (sometimes) couldn't

mina.naguib.ca/blog/2012/10/22/the-little-ssh-that-sometimes-couldnt.html

A fascinating tale about network problems.

2024-01-12

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voidlizard/hbs2: P2P CAS / P2P Framework / Distributed GIT

github.com/voidlizard/hbs2

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.

2023-11-26

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netaddr.IP: a new IP address type for Go

tailscale.com/blog/netaddr-new-ip-type-for-go

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.

2023-11-25

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What I learned from making a DNS client in Rust

blog.adamchalmers.com/making-a-dns-client

A lot about sockets, syscalls and bits

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mess with dns

messwithdns.net

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