The Internet’s Graffiti: Hidden Content on Popular WebsitesPhoto of Sir Terry Pratchett by Jutta on Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0. Want to see something cool? Go run this cURL command right now. One of the headers you get bacSep 29 · 23 min readprithwish-nath.hashnode.dev
Stop Relying on AI. Learn The Algorithm First.A search feature is the easiest thing to screw up because it’s so plug-and-play these days, you barely even think about it. You’ll probably pick a BM25 library (used by Elasticsearch, Lucene, and otheSep 29 · 16 min readprithwish-nath.hashnode.dev
A Study of the Public URLs Cited by the IANA Time Zone DatabaseFig 1: What tzdata is for. The map shows the time actually observed in each place, legality aside. Its zone data comes from the IANA database. Source: Heitordp, Wikimedia Commons. Public domain (CIA WSep 15 · 14 min readprithwish-nath.hashnode.dev
Why Google, Common Crawl, and ChatGPT See Different Versions of the Same URLA URL identifies a resource, but it does not guarantee one canonical representation of that resource. Go visit the same URL with a browser, an HTTP client, Common Crawl / the Wayback Machine, or ask Aug 20 · 23 min readprithwish-nath.hashnode.dev
How Much of the Web Disappears Without JavaScript?I read about celld last week: an open-source daemon that re-implements Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects, self-hosted, no Cloudflare account required. I wanted to try it on my hobby project — aAug 20 · 15 min readprithwish-nath.hashnode.dev
