I’m making sure I post this Lazy Reading on the right day. A nice full week’s worth of stuff.
- Bandwidth used when loading different web pages. (via) The largest one is also the most surprising.
- Do you have an IBM x3550? Turn ACPI off.
- The recent TCL presentation at NYCBUG is available in audio form.
- Did you want to know a lot of detail on how to do journaled soft updates in UFS? You want detail, you got it. (via, via) (Is that a repeat link? I don’t think so…)
- This is totally useful if you’re using ssh from a Windows machine.
- SSH is used as a noun and a verb, I just realized. No link, it’s just me noticing verbification.
- BSDCan 2012 registration is open. (via Michael Lucas’s Twitter feed) Conventions are awesome. You should go.
- Michael Lucas talks about book promotion with his recent book. There’s a graph, so it’s automatically great.
- Speaking of books, Modern Perl: The Book is free to download in PDF form.
- A story about _why. (via) I’m not so interested in his identity, but in what he did to get people to program.
- My git habits. (Not mine; that’s just the title.) Speaking of learning, I’ve always thought the next steps past learning the basics of anything is to then see how experienced people approach it, idiomatically.
- Why Juniper Gives Back to the FreeBSD Community. I link to this because I like what they are doing, and also because in a perfect world I would rather have a BSD-ish interface on my networking equipment than fiddle with IOS. Oh well.
- Bunnie Huang always builds neat stuff. This time it’s a Geiger counter. (via)
Your unrelated link of the week: Neo Scavenger. (via) It’s a game, in Flash, and in beta. If you like postapocalyptic survival, it may be for you.
Re: Bandwidth used when loading different web pages:
What an interesting link; thanks for that! Good to see that somebody bothered to visualize this. It reflects pretty much my experience of the web significantly slowing down for me once I enable JavaScript, which is why I’ve turned it off by default even in the light of an in my opinion far too large a number of sites over the recent years that are rendered useless by this.
It is especially annoying that it has become hard to find a web shop that does actually work without that scripting BS without any necessity. It used to be good practice to require web designers to test their creations with several browsers and different settings, but gone seem to be these days and even major websites don’t seem to care anymore.
The Github bit also explains why I dislike loading their site, since I usually expect sites that only have text on them to load much faster (JavaScript disabled). That Stylesheet crap on the site seems to explain the delay. Than again, at least part of the delay might also be related to their use of HTTPS, which probably involves checks for revoked certificates or somesuch.
To summarize: It is somewhat sad that large parts of the web got broken by misguided web 2.0 fancyism. Human readable HTML has also become a relict of past days. I’m looking for the web but cannot find it anymore. Should people cease to care about the past and instead enter some walled garden and enjoy the new world? Should web designers care even less?