I was not blogging for some time. In the meantime, both Gfycat and Koji have been acquired, and their services shut down.
These two occurrences reminded me the ephemerality of life on the internet again. A struggle against it does require being proactive. As I have learned with a harsh lesson, Internet Archive’s fights against this decay is a cornerstone of modern internet. Even though you can rely on it to save the old web to an amber, internet technologies are a mobile target. You cannot trust it to revive the mosquito within it. As we require ruffle to replay flash games, we need tools to deal with the intricacies of the modern web.
While fixing Content-Security-Policy header, I have messed up the caches. I have accidentally pushed a change to keep all pages in the cache indefinitely. Situation: browsers are now serving stale pages.
After I have built the site, the next step was checking performance and security. The log, besides being my learning notebook, is also a test-bed for my experiments.
scoop — Package installer — WinGet is not ready for prime-time and Chocolatey while has a larger database, it is too slow and harder to automate. scoop install a package to install an application. updates and uninstalls are straightforward too. It has even a ‘Unix which’ alternative to find out path of an executable scoop which.
