Weekly Tech Cocktail – Issue #10
Identity checks on Claude push people to open weights, prompt injection reframed as role confusion, Quake in CSS
Tag: Http
The protocol the web runs on: caching, status codes, and the semantics behind them.
10 articles tagged with "Http"
2026
Weekly Tech Cocktail – Issue #9
Washington pulls Fable and Mythos offline, an agent bankrupts its operator scanning DN42, curl pauses bug reports
2025
The Weekly API Cocktail – Issue #1
Coding agents drive the cost of code toward zero, a rant against JavaScript, and HTTP/3 in the wild
2016
Serving the web at light-speed
Optimize website load speed using Nginx with Pagespeed module and Amazon CloudFront CDN. Part 1 of a 4-part series covering tools, techniques, and performance measurement.
Nginx, pagespeed and a simple node.js backend
Set up Nginx with Pagespeed module and Node.js backend in Docker containers for automatic asset optimization, HTML minification, and improved web performance without code changes.
Amazon Cloudfront as our Content Delivery Network
Configure Amazon CloudFront CDN with Nginx and Pagespeed to serve static assets from geographically distributed edge locations, reducing server load and improving performance.
Instrument, Measure and Learn
Measure web performance improvements using Pagespeed statistics, Google Analytics, Search Console, and PageSpeed Insights to track connection time, response time, and user experience.
2011
Give your WSGI application super-powers
Learn how to enhance your WSGI applications with powerful middleware, including the amazing weberror interactive Ajax debugger for Python web development.