It's crazy how little memory browser tabs and webviews get on iOS. With the devices themselves having memory crunch, with hardly ~1gb of usable ram available, there's so much pressure on efficiency everywhere ~ modelling, loading, rendering.
Suspecting it might be related to the recent letsencrypt cert authority expiring?
Was just debugging an issue earlier today and just couldn't help wondering how much of the internet is secured by letsencrypt.
All of the static hosts providing free SSL: vercel, netlify, render, firebase hosting, github pages, heroku etc. ...
It does work on modern browsers and devices but goes terribly broken on a lot of old devices.
Obviously not possible to check right now to provide proof, but I feel quite confident in saying that Facebook does not use Let's Encrypt. It's also clearly not an SSL issue.
nLite! That brings back memories. Customizing a Windows Installation to remove bloatware, add additional software and make it run unattended. It was a tinkerer’s dream :)
What next? Well I setup some handy shell functions:
1) copy the latest screenshot into webroot/screenshots/${randstr}.png and copy the url to clipboard. this replaces dropbox's cool screenshot sharing feature. love sharing screenshots with coworkers this way, the files stays with you, you can redact easily.
2) serve static files the same way, if needed too. the magic's all in the shell scripts.
3) explore new open source webapps running on local docker.
Further?
Build a sort of like a devtools backend server, and a mobile app paired to it to do all sorts of cool stuff: run crons, get notifications for events, monitor servers / ssl expiry etc.
Limit's your imagination. But, security is also very important.
