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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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Edent, (edited ) to random
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Hello friends! I'm still testing out my personal ActivityPub server - and I need your help 🙂

If you click this link → @example ←

Do you see the user's account or a page of JSON code?

If you do see the code, could you please let me know which platform / app you're using?

THANKS GANG!

tdp_org,
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@Edent @example I get a "try original site" error (this is a generic issue with Elk).
If I remove "@mastodon.social" from the URL, it works.
Elk 0.11.0 on Firefox latest, Mac.

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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.

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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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@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.

chris, to mastodon
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Mastodon really needs to work on how it kills small websites with previews…. my website right now. :(

tdp_org,
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@chris If you haven't already, it's probably worth putting the Google cloud CDN in front of the bucket. Should be cheaper that way.

tdp_org,
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@chris Is the problem the volume of bandwidth it pulls or the request rate?
The former is probably obviously much harder to solve on a budget, caching will help with the latter. A federated cache would be awesome but complex, I assume.

tdp_org, to random
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tl;dr: multicast media streaming trial/PoC from BT (in the UK).

Some of my colleagues have been helping to test and evaluate MAUD. Possibly worth mentioning the (IMO) major missing point in the article - you have to be running a BT router for it to work as that becomes a local distribution endpoint. Maybe that was just too much technical detail for a broad audience peace which is fair enough, without knowing that it won't make sense to techies though.

https://newsroom.bt.com/bt-group-announces-live-tv-technology-breakthrough-to-meet-growing-customer-demand/

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@ben Yeah for sure. We have player telemetry which does a good job but we do use log data and metrics from the CDNs too - I'd assume that the local endpoint will ship metrics back to the mothership which we could then consume but I am definitely going to ask about that. I'm assuming the CDN will want the data too so they can monitor, feels like that has to happen really.

ianRobinson, to Geology
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The lava from the latest eruption has crossed over a road. I think this is just north of the thermal power plant and the Blue Lagoon. But I could be wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/live/nngyB6sSOYQ?si=KW-ZRWWFyPBV0aKU

tdp_org,
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@ianRobinson It's amazing how fast the lava moves! Looks like the protective berm is still holding at the moment..🤞🏻.

deno_land, to node
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1️⃣ pick a node project
2️⃣ run it with #deno
3️⃣ screenshot the output (success or failure)
4️⃣ share on twitter with #NodeToDenoChallenge
5️⃣ be eligible for prizes 🎁

more details 👇🏻

https://deno.com/blog/node-to-deno-challenge

tdp_org,
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@deno_land Can't people share it here, rather than twitter?
I suspect you'll find that lots of folks here don't use Twitter, including me.

sil, to random
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Just had the idea of going to all the pubs in the city and running fast.com on their WiFi and then publishing the results, along with whether they make you give up data to connect. Could be a useful resource. The Great British Pub WiFi Guide.

tdp_org,
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@sil Would be ace if it was a website which people could submit data to. That'd be a handy resource for people planning meetings/meetups

icing, to random
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Obvious: keyboards should have all the keys on one side, so that we can type everything with one hand comfortably.

tdp_org,
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@icing Just rotate your keyboard 90 degrees. Problem solved 🤣

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.
#AI #NoThanks

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 random
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Waiting for my work computer to do update type stuff so I can work again. Bored. AMA

tdp_org, to random
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So here's a new one.
I was crossing the street in front of our local petrol station/shop and a car was pulling out of the same, opposite me.
The driver wasn't indicating and was taking ages so I started walking over the road. The driver then pretty much drove into me so I gestured to him to indicate.
He got out of the car, super aggressive & pushed me. I told him, "if you can't be arsed to indicate, I can't be arsed to wait for you".
He backed down & drove off.
Don't be this guy, people.

tdp_org,
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@davehay Oh nice. Yep, that would definitely have applied. Thanks for the info🙌
I'm hoping he reflects on his behaviour and doesn't do it again.

tdp_org,
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Once he'd pushed me, I looked in the car and saw his partner and 2 children. What a terrible example to set for your kids. I don't get the need to be so aggressive.
I assume he thought he was being the big guy in front of his family. In reality he just looked stupid.

tdp_org, to random
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Imagine, if you will, a world where everyone is 100% honest.
There'd be no need for any people to do R&D, design, manufacturing, sales, marketing or support/doign of a massive chunk of everyday goods/services e.g.:

  • Locks & keys etc.
  • Surveillance
  • Policing/Security guards
  • Encryption
  • Military & weapons
  • ...
    It's nuts when you think about how much of what people/buy do results directly from dishonesty.
tdp_org, to random
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Dang, Terraform is persistent!
2 hours and 40 minutes to deploy a CDN change.
Thanks for sticking with it TF!

tdp_org,
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@markwalker TBH, I forgot about it after the first 20 minutes 🤣

tdp_org, to random
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Just had a look at our logs and in 2 days, there were 81.3 million requests to www.bbc.co.uk and www.bbc.com from clients with "bot" in the user-agent string.
There were just under 10,000 unique user agents.
Seems a touch excessive.

tdp_org,
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@michael Not sure exactly but low single digits percentage

tdp_org, to random
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We just deployed a long-overdue fix for Apple icons on www.bbc.co.uk & www.bbc.com. For years we've been missing the more modern sizes, that should all be sorted now. You can see the reduction in 404s already which is nice!

tdp_org, to random
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We've been told we're migrating from Zoom to Teams at work.
So I opened Teams for about the 3rd time ever & OMG - do the Teams UI team hate the rest of humanity & want to confuse/frustrate them or something. Never seen something so unintuitive.

A colleague says he thinks you can't share individual windows in Teams, is that right? I use an ultrawide monitor so sharing that doesn't work for most people as they don't so my desktop gets squashed into theirs.

Anyone hiring technical architects?🤣

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