90% of pages loaded in the US with Firefox are now using HTTPS

Plus solar powered web sites, the history of Git and Let's Encrypt, and more domain price increases.

#253 — February 12, 2020 Read on the Web StatusCode Weekly Covering the week's news in software development, ops, platforms, and tooling. How Sustainable is a Solar Powered Website? — Very, it turns out. "Our self-hosted, solar-powered, off-grid website has been running for 15 months now." I enjoyed this story. LOW-TECH MAGAZINE GitHub CLI Now in Beta — GitHub has unveiled a new command line tool designed to make it easier to work with GitHub and common workflows there like handling pull requests, etc. GitHub Build Video in Just Two API Calls — Mux Video is an API-first platform, powered by data and designed by video experts to make beautiful video possible for every development team. Mux sponsor ICANN To Allow .COM Price Increases? — Another month, another TLD is in the spotlight. This time, ICANN has announced significant changes to the contract it has with Verisign to operate the top-level domain .COM, including .COM price increases, and Namecheap invites you to make your feeling known. Namecheap Chrome's Plan to Prevent Insecure Downloads — Starting in Chrome 82, Chrome will block the download of files served insecurely when linked on secure origins. Here's The Register's take. Joe DeBlasio (Google) The Story of Let's Encrypt — Let's face it, Let's Encrypt's automated certificate service has had a huge impact on the rollout of HTTPS across the Internet. This post summarizes a paper (PDF) that details the technical story behind the scenes. the morning paper The History of Git: The Road to Domination — Like JavaScript, the git version control system was essentially put together quickly in a week and has steadily grown from there into an industry dominating technology. Here's the full story. Andy Favell Quick bytes: A calamity with barcodes at Amazon's warehouse makes for an entertaining Twitter thread. (And a lot of granola for this guy.) Handshake is a prototype of a new, experimetal peer-to-peer root naming system. Firefox 73 is out with numerous DevTools improvements. It's going to take us a while to pick out the highlights but 500+ talk videos from FOSDEM 2020 are now available. Perhaps try searching the page for the names of technologies and languages you like? 😂 Apparently using Alpine can make Python Docker builds 50x slower. Most source code has a short lifespan and is only ever modified by one person. 💻 Jobs Find a Dev Job Through Vettery — Vettery is completely free for job seekers. Make a profile, name your salary, and connect with hiring managers from top employers. Vettery DevOps Engineer at X-Team (Remote) — Work with the world's leading brands, from anywhere. Travel the world while being part of the most energizing community of developers. X-Team 📕 Tutorials Building a Performant Front-End Architecture — A technical writeup of the key things to consider performance-wise when building a front-end. DebugBear Performance Testing HTTP/1.1 vs HTTP/2 Vs HTTP/2 + Server Push for REST APIs — If you're unfamiliar with the performance dynamics and differences between these approaches, this is a good writeup and demonstration. Evert Pot Top GitHub Best Practices for Developers - Expanded Guide — Implementing these best practices could save you time, improve code maintainability, and prevent security risks. Datree.io sponsor Should You Self-Host Google Fonts? — A detailed and considered look at what you can do to minimize the performance impact of third-party fonts. Barry Pollard Dynamic Route53 Records for AWS Auto Scaling Groups with Terraform Jim Sheldon Ask HN: What's The Best Resource for Learning Modern x64 Assembly? — I've been nostalgically dabbling with this recently and while I have no practical use for writing x86, if you do.. this thread will be useful. Hacker News Build a Lightning Quick Website using Hugo and S3 — One developer's approach to a site that loads in 50ms. Josh Bradley 💡 Stories and Opinions Analyzing the Attacks On My Web Site — "With a little bit of command line kung fu, some Go and Google Sheets I'll show you how to visualize who is attacking your site." Jeremy Morgan ▶  How Java is Imitating Functional Languages — If you've been keeping an eye on Java in recent years, you'll have seen it taking on a few new features inspired by other languages. Maurice Naftalin and José Paumard The Fastest Way to Get Great Bug Reports from the Non-Technical Folk BugHerd sponsor The Wall of Technical Debt — An interesting method for making technical debt visible and negotiable. Mathias Verraes Smaller Pieces, Lower Pain — It seems obvious when you say it but breaking tasks down into the tiniest possible pieces is a core tenet of engineering (and particularly diagnosis) to me. Jessica Joy Kerr 🛠 Code and Tools Flash: A Test Service to Mock Slow Server Responses — A simple HTTP service that simulates a slow response with a configurable delay in millisecs. I used this to test a "loading" status React library, worked well. Siwalik Couchbase Cloud: It's Managed Couchbase as a Service — Couchbase, one of the earliest databases to be referred to as 'NoSQL', has joined the long line of databases with an official, managed, cloud-based service. Scott Anderson Shell Git: A Shell-Based git Implementation — Sorry, I couldn't resist given it's actually called shit for short. And it's by open source hero Drew DeVault, the creator of sourcehut. Drew DeVault CheerpJ 2.0 Released: A Java to WASM and JS Compiler — This is a commercial tool (though free for non-commercial purposes) but as someone who started on the Web in the 90s, the idea of Java being compiled to JavaScript continues to amuse :-) Stefano De Rossi ssh-over-ssm: Use AWS SSM to Connect to Instances over SSH L1 Wrangler: A CLI Tool for Working with Cloudflare Workers — Workers is Cloudflare's platform for distributing JavaScript to run at the 'edge' around the world. Cloudflare 🐦 Seen on Twitter..

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