Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and the Web
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Federal News Network ☛ Cloud Exchange 2024: CMS’ Andrea Fletcher, Remy DeCausemaker on extending digital services through open source
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services sees The Centers for Medicaid & Medicavalue and ease of open source software in developing new capabilities faster.
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James G ☛ Re-casing titles with word counts
My bookmarking tool has a feature that automatically retrieves a title when a URL is pasted into the tool. I built this feature to help reduce the friction associated with bookmarking. The workflow I had in mind for this tool was: [...]
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Web Browsers/Web Servers
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Rachel ☛ A high-level view of all of this feed reader stuff
This is showing the number of requests, how many were conditional or not, which ones presented a good If-Modified-Since value, one that was out of sequence ("oos"), or made up entirely. Then it does the same three counters for If-None-Match values.
Next up are the counters for cookies, referrers and query parameters which were needlessly presented for whatever reason, and finally it's whether the requests are showing up over IPv4 or IPv6.
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Rachel ☛ How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins
I used to wonder just what could be this stupid. The user-agents on these bad requests aren't particularly helpful. But, then one day, I got lucky and noticed that the first request of the set has one very interesting little detail in it (while the others do not):
FxiOS/127.1
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SaaS/Back End
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Jeff Triplett ☛ Jeff Triplett's Micro.blog
I work with a few machines, and it’s an excellent way to create a database dump from one machine and then restore it from another machine. I sometimes use it to test data migrations because restoring a database dump takes a few seconds.
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