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Lead Architect @ BBC. Snowboarder, skateboarder. Oxfordshire, UK. Opinions mine. He/Him.
Interested in #serverless #nodejs #googlecloud #terraform #bigquery #analytics #web #cdn #http #tls #http2 #http3 #security #infosec #privacy #webperformance #webperf etc.

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Get the popcorn out:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-69042935

jpmens, to random
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One of the features I miss most on this platform is the ability to simply format text. Something like a stripped down version of Markdown: I don't expect links (nor do I think they'd be valuable, maybe too dangerous), but code blocks with non-proportional font would really be something I'd use.

tdp_org,
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@jpmens @mpts Yeah, I was going to say, I generally use Elk which supports it: https://elk.zone/

tdp_org,
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@jpmens @freyfogle @mpts 🤣
Yeah would be cool to have a plain and a styled version perhaps

tdp_org, to webdev
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My pals in BBC World Service have been doing some awesome work on "lite" versions of their news articles (other page types to follow).
They essentially skip the Server-Side React hydration which means you end up with a simpler HTML+CSS page, no JS.
Page sizes drop significantly:

Screenshot of a BBC World Service Mundo "lite" page with Dev Tools open showing bytes transferred and total as stated

tdp_org,
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@tonypconway @kravietz Yep, spot on. It might be that this is a trailblazer which prompts the .co.uk stack to adopt it, the initial case is definitely compelling IMO.
Toby mentioned he'd be talking to you folks 👍🏻

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The BBC is hiring 2x data-focussed Technical Architects ("senior" & "lead") for UK-based folks (due to boring tax/legal reasons).

Great & smart team (we work with them regularly) using mostly AWS-based tech. Flexible location (mainly remote by default but options to work from a number of offices). Solid pension & benefits.

Shares/boosts would be much appreciated. Closes May 16th.

Full details on the adverts:

https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Glasgow-Senior-Architect-G511DA/794392302/

https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Glasgow-Lead-Architect-G511DA/794389302/

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Despite the very clever people working at Google & Fitbit, my Pixel Watch still marks me mowing the lawn as "Biking" every time.
I do get that the arm position will be pretty much identical but maybe they ought to consider metadata - how many people are cycling for an hour whilst in wifi range and within ~60 metres of their home location whilst moving at walking pace? 🤣

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We're being force-migrated from Zoom to Teams (to save some Schekels) which was a bit of a wrench at first but I've found a few things which I prefer in Teams:

  • Dedicated "raise hand" vs "react" buttons on the toolbar
  • Visualised sequencing for people who raised their hand so you can go through in order
    I do always struggle to find the "mute" button for some reason (seems to be common with lots of people) and the video quality is pretty poor compared to Zoom but I can live with it.
tdp_org, to random
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If you could launch any 3 people to Mars and never see or hear from them again, who would it be?

tdp_org,
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@janl V similar to mine. I'd probably put pooptin in there too - feels like doing that might nullify tronald - 2 for 1 deal! 🍻

tdp_org, to random
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@tomatospy isn't pulling any punches (and is absolutely correct, IMO) on today's Risky Biz newsletter.

https://news.risky.biz/corporate-freeloading-makes-open-source-vulnerable/

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🚨 **UK TV Licensing scam! **🚨

I just recieved this scam email purporting to be a TV Licensing renewal reminder. It's reasonably well done except for:

  1. The sender email address
  2. The trademark symbol - AFAIK that's never used by TVL

I believe they're using the data from the People's Energy data breach as the email address they sent this to used the unique plus alias I used on my account with PE.

The "sign in" link goes to an AWS S3 hosted file BTW.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55350995

tdp_org,
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@markwalker Yep, and it works with more email services than you might think...just wish more websites/services would support them.

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Every time you think they can't stoop lower...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68788110

tdp_org, to random
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Is it "no one is registering for our conferences so let's spam everyone and offer free tickets" week or something?
I must have had 5-10 every day so far.
Blocked every sender.

tdp_org,
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@tomw +1

tdp_org, to webdev
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I enabled Brotli compression on the CDN which serves the main BBC websites (www.bbc.co.uk. www.bbc.com etc.) outside the UK this morning.
Over ~4 hours, we're seeing a mean of ~20% better compression (smaller responses) via Brotli & ~95% of responses being Brotli now.
I've not had time to look in detail at performance but there doesn't look to be a significant change (LMK if you see diferent!).
(the spikes are breaking news events linking to a large "live" pages)

tdp_org,
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@slink Unfortunately I don't know any of that, sorry. This is on Fastly so it's all tied in to their platform.
I am planning on doing the same on our platform too though, once time allows. So at that point I can provide the info.

tdp_org,
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@kura @slink Not sure on Fastly but I think nginx can do that - haven't looked in a while.
There's also the client CPU to consider too of course.

tdp_org,
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A little update on our enabling of Brotli for www.bbc.co.uk, www.bbc.com etc.
We're seeing compression improvements of roughly 15-40% over gzip. 15% is for HTML only, 40% is the overall. The caveat is that some clients which don't support Brotli request unusual content so this may be skewed to some degree.
I'll cover an issue which has cropped up in the next post.

tdp_org,
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Our stack is: Fastly -> GTM (BBC CDN) -> Belfrage (BBC routing) -> origins for most of our modern web pages.
Currently, only Fastly supports Brotli, the others do gzip, deflate & no compression.
Fastly strips gzip,deflate from the accept-encoding header sent to origin so our layers all return uncompressed content which means they're using more egress bandwidth. It's not a huge problem for us but something I thought might be useful for others to know.

tdp_org, to webdev
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Somehow, we never got round to enabling Brotli compression on www.bbc.co.uk & www.bbc.com so I am just in the final throws of deploying that.
So far in ~1 hour on our staging site, I'm seeing ~24% smaller files under Brotli (vs. gzip). 🤞this (or better) also happens on live which'll be tomorrow.

tdp_org, to random
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Whoops.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-68656415

tdp_org, to ai
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I'm going to say it now, i'd pay more for a computer without AI BS hardware and software.

tdp_org, to pizza
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Any tried add trusted (I can search for recipes, looking for genuine recommendations) recommendations for a good, authentic Italian pizza dough recipe which is realistic for me to make at home?
(We have a mixer etc)

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