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Perfection kills » Experimenting with html minifier
2010 Mar 10, 3:40Notes on the features and performance of an HTML minification tool.
Protecting Browsers from Extension Vulnerabilities
2010 Feb 27, 10:06A web browser add-on security research paper that describes the Google Chrome security model. "We propose a new browser extension system that improves security by using least privilege, privilege separation,and strong isolation. Our system limits the misdeeds an attacker can perform through an extension vulnerability.
Our design has been adopted as the Google Chrome extension system."
[tcpm] Tuning TCP parameters for the 21st century
2010 Feb 19, 2:43A Googler's thoughts on tuning TCP params for better perf.Coding Horror: You're Reading The World's Most Dangerous Programming Blog
2010 Jan 20, 8:28GZip vs Deflate execution speeds. Deflate found to be much faster in particular cases and about the same in the rest.DMTHEATRICS announces the exclusive NYC premiere of THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF LEBOWSKI
2010 Jan 13, 9:35A live stage performance of The Two Gentlemen of Lebowski.Gibberish rock song written by Italian composer to sound like English Boing Boing
2009 Dec 17, 6:13"In this remarkable and fully rockin' video, an Italian singer performs a rock piece whose lyrics are gibberish intended to sound like English"Let Me Google That For You – Neatorama
2009 Dec 10, 2:31If you want to be a jerk about answering a question on the Internet, 'Let Me Google That For You' is perfect!Google Public DNS
2009 Dec 3, 4:52Having replaced HTTP with SPDY, Google digs deeper into the Web stack providing their own DNS servers. Also, as Waxy noted, you can't argue with the most memorable IP addresses I've seen: "Configure your network settings to use the IP addresses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as your DNS servers". Also check out their DNS server's DNS prefetching in the performance notes.John Resig - Deep Tracing of Internet Explorer
2009 Nov 19, 3:46A free tool dynaTrace Ajax provides "full tracing analysis of Internet Explorer 6-8 (including JavaScript, rendering, and network traffic)". Looks pretty too...Extreme JavaScript Performance
2009 Nov 12, 3:35Presentation comparing the performance of different JavaScript operations on different web browsers. Suggestions cover full range of good to know to common sense to ugly ugly ugly.The WHATWG Blog » Blog Archive » Sniffing for RSS 1.0 feeds served as text/html
2009 Sep 29, 10:54How Firefox and IE7&8 perform feed sniffingInternet Archive: Free Download: The Spirituals to Swing Concerts of 1938 - 1939 (April 11, 1971)
2009 Sep 25, 12:14"Phil Elwood presents the complete recordings of two concerts organized by John Hammond and given on the Christmas Eves of 1938 and 1939 at Carnegie Hall; featuring the best Swing, Blues, and Gospel musicians of the day. Performers include Charlie Christian, Lester Young, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Bill Broozy, and many others"Timefire: On Reducing the Size of Compressed Javascript (by up to 20%)
2009 Sep 1, 4:39"...what effect does the large-scale structure of the JS output code have on the DEFLATE algorithm of GZIP which is used to serve up compressed script?" Another instance of using knowledge of the specific file type to get gains in compression. Is there a web proxy running all this at which I can point my phone?CSS minifier and alphabetiser – Barryvan
2009 Sep 1, 4:36"I’ve written a small Java application that will read in a CSS file and output its contents to stdout or another file in a format that’s optimised for gzipping." Cool!Love this laughter: Sony's sublime emotion-detecting patent illustration | Offworld
2009 Aug 19, 8:06"I can conceive of no reality in which the designer behind Fig. 2 of Sony's newly patented emotion-detecting system didn't understand what he'd just created, especially as they perfectly distilled What TV Comedy Looks Like."
YouTube - Louis Vuitton "SUPERFLAT MONOGRAM"
2009 Jul 9, 10:53"...but the inside of his stomach is gateway to a psychadelic wonderland." Need I quote more? The whole thing made me think of a rather upbeat and trippy episode of Lain. Also, one of the repeating noises in the soundtrack made me think I was finishing a lap in Mario Kart.Bits Up!: DNS Prefetching for Firefox
2009 Jun 22, 3:28Details on Firefox's DNS prefetching: "The Firefox implementation takes this approach one step further than just pre-resolving anchor href hostnames. It uses the prefetch logic on URLs that are being included in the current document. By this I mean that it uses the prefetch logic on things like images, css, and jscript that are being loaded right away, in addition to anchor links which might be clicked on at a slightly later time."Chromium Blog: DNS Prefetching (or Pre-Resolving)
2009 Jun 22, 2:55"To speed up browsing, Google Chrome resolves domain names before the user navigates, typically while the user is viewing a web page." In addition to noting what and how they do it, and how web devs can control it, they give a few stats on how much it helps.Controlling DNS prefetching - MDC
2009 Jun 22, 2:53"Firefox 3.5 performs DNS prefetching. This is a feature by which Firefox proactively performs domain name resolution on both links that the user may choose to follow as well as URLs for items referenced by the document, including images, CSS, JavaScript, and so forth."Paleo-Future: Robots vs. Musicians (1931)
2009 Jun 12, 9:16"This ad from the March 9, 1931 Simpson's Leader-Times (Kittanning, PA) is in no way subtle. The consequences of using recorded music at theatre performances rather than live musicians are, "Monotony in the theatre - corruption of taste - destruction of art." Yikes."
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