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Now that web pages weigh in at tens of megabytes and make scores of external calls, those with bandwidth caps are in for a raw deal unless the trend turns. A pseudo-anonymous blogger makes the appeal to please keep your blog light, as in kilobytes per page rather than megabytes.
The light went on for him when moving to a mobile service plan with a 25MB per month limit. It turns out that 25MB is barely enough to load seven blog posts from the site Medium. There the pages can be 3.26MB each and 25 divded by 3.26 is only about 7.6. Pages of that size would have taken close to 10 minutes to load over an old dialup connection. Most other sites are just as bad or worse. He walks through some easy steps to guarantee a lean web site with low bandwidth requirements and fast load times.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Friday January 26 2018, @04:26AM (8 children)
I Use RSS, even for SoylentNews, I can blast through a whole day's worth of stories and decide if I want to call any of them up.
Maybe you don't want to block ads on your favorite blog site. (If you don't click the ads you might as well block them - saves everybody bandwidth charges).
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @04:50AM
That's a very inefficient way to waste time.
(Score: 3, Funny) by FatPhil on Friday January 26 2018, @11:32AM (3 children)
Reminder to self: migrate my webpages to gopher...
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @12:49PM (2 children)
Just wait for RSS 2.0 - now with RSSScript!
/joke... I hope?
(Score: 2) by chromas on Friday January 26 2018, @04:00PM
Joke's on you; RSS 2.0's been a thing for many moons now. It's a pile of XML that lets you embed HTML and whatever else you want in it. I haven't seen scripts yet but some sites embed stock photos and tracking images.
(Score: 1) by DECbot on Friday January 26 2018, @04:02PM
I think it could be done. RSS + CSS + JavaScript... what could go wrong? Flash support? ActiveX? No problem! Wait! Lots of problems, just how you like it! Let me tell you the wonders of Java applets and how! There's a whole internet waiting to be downloaded and with RSScript you can see it as how the advertisers had wanted.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 2) by t-3 on Friday January 26 2018, @09:58PM (2 children)
I like the idea of RSS, but I have never been able to find any command line tools that will work with it (something I can plug into a cron script, not a tui). I understand there's some python library for it, but I can't be bothered to roll my own for something that would only provide a small efficiency boost to my workflow.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @11:16PM (1 child)
You mean like https://vanheusden.com/rsstail/ [vanheusden.com]
(The SN feed is at https://soylentnews.org/index.rss) [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by t-3 on Friday January 26 2018, @11:47PM
Looking at the man page quickly, it seems like exactly what I want, thanks!