Anselm Hannemann,

My Writings

• How AMP supercharges link rot 16 July, 2016

  First of all, I’m not going to dismiss the huge performance benefits and research concepts of AMP here. There’s a more important story here to look at: Link rot. Yesterday, I read about a story where an artist lost his entire work when Google switched off the old Blogger platform. This threw thousands of blogs into nirvana. Google announced this, but the key problem remains: If the domain itself and all its subdomains are offline, no-one can set a redirect to a new location. With AMP, it’s a similar though a bit different topic. AMP has been built to improve...

• If you use Let’s Encrypt and have Apple News Bot, act now 08 July, 2016

  Since quite some time I wondered why Apple’s News Bot hehaves so agressively on WDRL’s site. It creates about 20-40000 requests to my server each day. This week I finally found the reason due to this article. AppleNewsBot is incompatible with Let’s Encrypt certificates and gets more agressive when detecting that it can’t fetch the data. Apparently, this issue has been reported to Apple already months ago but until now, the “botnet” (I think it’s valid to call it like this in that case) is still behaving the same. Therefore to reduce my server load, I wanted to have a...

• Using VPN and Tor for Web Development 30 May, 2016

  Many developers might ask why I would use a VPN or Tor network. Besides some of these networks being able to protect your privacy, they offer developers a huge other feature: Slowness and different locations to test your application and website. Check a CDN’s Cache If you use a CDN to serve your assets, you sometimes need to purge / invalidate the cache for a file. But most CDNs don’t do this instantly but take quite a while to do so. Especially Amazon Cloudfront can be quite unreliable for that but with a VPN, you can easily connect to various...

• The Responsibility Mindset With Artificial Intelligence 27 April, 2016

• Open Service Worker Questions 04 February, 2016

• Why You Should Choose Your Own HTTPS. 06 January, 2016

• See The Progress 16 December, 2015

• Using Web Fonts The Best Way (in 2015). 08 October, 2015

• Safari isn’t the new IE but it’s also not user centric 01 July, 2015

• Performance is King but so is Privacy and Data Ownership 15 May, 2015

• Native Scrolling 16 March, 2015

• A Channel To Write. 02 March, 2015

• Don’t fight but start supporting each other 13 January, 2015

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