10 years after it became irrelevant (one of the first blogposts I wrote that generated discussions & traffic), Flash is now officially buried;
2020: the year Flash was finally buried
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Past, present and future laptops
When my Thinkpad x250 broke down last week with what appears to be a motherboard failure, I tried to convince my daughter to hand over her T410 but work-from-home-schooling does not work without a computer, so she refused. Disillusioned in my diminishing parenting powers, I dug up my 10 year old Samsung n135 netbook instead. It still had Ubuntu 14.10 running and the battery was pining for the fjords, but after buying a new battery (€29), updating Ubuntu to 18.04 LTS and switching to Lubuntu it really is usable again.
Now to be honest, I did get replacement laptop (a bulky T510 with only 4GB of RAM) with my own SSD inside from my supplier, so I’m not using that old netbook full-time, but happy to have it running smoothly nonetheless.
The future, to end this old-fashioned geekery off with, will very likely be a Dell XPS-13 9300 (yep, I’ll be cheating on Lenovo) on which I’ll happily install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on. I’ve upgraded my wife’s x240 to that already and I must say it runs smoothly and looks great when compared to 18.04 which I’m still running.
Autoptimize closing in on W3 Total Cache
Fun fact; As per wordpress.org “popular plugins” ranking , Autoptimize is slowly but surely closing in on what used to be the go-to solution for Web Performance Optimization W3 Total Cache based on the “active installs” metric. Who would have thought? What a crazy ride …
Autoptimize testimonial from Wolf Braun
Wolf Braun is a happy Autopitmize user and created this testimonial to tell the world just how great he thinks AO is;
Autoptimize Testimonial
Watch this video on YouTube.
Thanks Wolf, we agree! :-)
(even) more privacy with Firefox Containers
Being wary of all things tracking by Google & Facebook, both of who’s products I love but data capturing practices I hate, for the last 4 years or so I always logged in into these in “Private browsing” sessions in Firefox (because why trust the worlds biggest advertising platform with your privacy, right?)
Now I just “discovered” that the Mozilla team have rendered that somewhat clumsy procedure -which required me to log in each time I restarted my computer or browser- redundant with their “Firefox Multi-Account Containers” add-on, allowing you to contain entire sessions to one (or more) tabs;
Firefox Containers
Watch this video on YouTube.
So now I have one browser window with a couple of tabs in the Google container, one tab in a Facebook container and all others in the “default” container where Google & Facebook can’t track me (fingerprinting aside, but there’s an option for that).
Autoptimize featured on The CommonSenSEO Show
I had a nice chat on The CommonSenSEO Show, if you want to hear me ramble you can do so in this video;
Google Pagespeed Insights: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly on The CommonSenSEO Show No.20
Watch this video on YouTube.
And if you’re into SEO, do subscribe to the channel!
We just joined the club!
Autoptimize just joined the “1+ million active installs”-club. Crazy!
I’m very happy, thanks everyone for using, thanks for the support-questions & all the great feedback therein and especially thanks to the people who actively contributed and especially-especially to Emilio López (Turl) for creating Autoptimize and handing it over to me back in 2013 and to Tomaš Trkulja who cleaned up al lot of the messy code I added to it and introducing me to PHP codesniffer & Travis CI tests.