Interesting post by Benjojo about measuring how the ping time to a host is split between the two packet directions. Made me think of a dumb hack that recognizes a host is being pinged and sends response packets for the later repeats before the request has arrived. According to wikipedia, the pattern is predictable. Just needs a guess for how much to send early without the response arriving before the request.

tutorial on an (animated) cube created using CSS 3D-transforms

Nice introduction to HTML parsing tools in Rust. I have the ungood suspicion I'm talking myself into writing a microformats parser … 😬

Microsoft's Photos Companion is a surprisingly slick way of syncing photos from an Android phone to Windows 10. Now why this hasn't been a common standard for years is a different question...

<A HREF="http://www.example.com/myfile.pdf#page=4">

From a quick test also works in the build-in PDF viewers of Firefox and Chrome.

Today I wondered why #Firefox suddenly had become slow and laggy again. Turns out it tries to detect the use of accessibility tools and then disables Electrolysis (seperate rendering processes) for a week and goes back to it's old, laggy single-process model. I assume this was triggered by taking a screenshot with the Windows Snipping Tool in my case. Luckily, there is a preference to turn this detection off.

Zegnat's awesome writeup of the demos from IWC Düsseldorf