Can’t remember where I stumbled upon a SEO-type guide that was suggesting agent-optimization via a robot.txt-like file llms.txt which lives in the web root and helps agents use your site. Perfect, I thought, my sightread.org has a zillion options, all bookmarkable. I imagined a world where someone asks ChatGPT for a sight reading exercise or […]

Let’s see how to setup and run cjxl (and its sibling djxl) on a simple shared hosting provider so you can encode and decode JPEG-XL (aka JXL) images. How There are better ways to install libjxl and its command-line tools but they require you to have sufficient privileges on your computer or server. With inexpensive […]

I use Dreamhost. Have been since 2008. If you’re not using Dreamhost… well, go sign up and here’s $50 off of the $97 yearly plan. Now some folks reminded me recently that the Perf calendar was not yet migrated to HTTPS… True enough. I have to do it. Eventually. In any normal situation I’ll procrastinate […]

I was working on an article discussing how to implement Yahoo’s 13 rules for front-end performance on a shared host, I hope the article will be out soon. Anyway I have access to accounts at a few hosts – icdsoft.com, site5.com, dreamhost.com, so I was trying out the stuff I wrote in the article and […]