How Standard Ebooks serves millions of requests per month with a 2GB VPS; or, a paean to the classic web.
As one gets older, one feels less and less excitement for the new tech hotness—after all, when one must drive a nail, there’s only so many different kinds of hammers to get excited about before one stops caring and just reaches for the go-to. So when I want to start a new website, I reach for PHP.
Präteritum war für nicht genug befunden gewesen.
Franz Morat KG tv-computersystem 6800.
The UI (basically a classical monitor) allows you to see the content of the RAM and to control the CPU, all of which happens by using the light pen.
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Wie meine Mutter immer sagte, koche jeden Tag frisch und Abwechslungsreich. Erst wenn mein Gast zufrieden ist, bin auch ich zufrieden.
Paged Out! is a free experimental (one article == one page) technical magazine about programming (especially programming tricks!), hacking, security hacking, retro computers, modern computers, electronics, demoscene, and other similar topics.
Starting with today, Antville can process images in WebP format, a missing feature that bit me plenty of times – so much that it is a bit weird it took me so long to make this work.
Adding insult to injury, it did not even take any implementation, just adding an ImageIO plugin to Helma and a case for the mime type to Antville… 😅
Update: Oh, almost forgot to configure AddType image/webp .webp for Apache!
Update 2: Alternative, and maybe the better way to enable WebP support in Apache: enabling it system-wide by adding image/webp webp to /etc/mime.types.
It irks me this is not supported out of the (Apache/Bullseye) box…
Hochwasser und Überschwemmungen in Deutschland: Die Lage in Bildern.
Vera Russwurm präsentiert die Neue Österreichische Welle.
The Cosmetics: Hello Man.
Relevant: Noch kein Wikipedia-Artikel für die Cosmetics… 😿
From the “I am doing more technical writing again, lately” dept.
Advent of Technical Writing.
In the Advent of Technical Writing series, I share something I have learned from my experience as a technical writer. My experience is primarily in software technical writing, but what you read may apply to different fields, too.
Relevant: Software Technical Writing – A Guidebook.