Simon Willison’s Weblog

SSL Issuer Popularity. The impressive growth of Let’s Encrypt in one graph: from 4.87% of TLS-enabled domains in May 2016 to 36.68% in November 2017.

# 2:44 pm / ssl

JOY.js (via) Delightful new exploratory programming environment from Nicky Case. Try the Turtle demo, which takes Logo and updates it for the modern web.

# 2:50 pm / javascript, explorables

Of SVG, Minification and Gzip. Delightfully nerdy exploration of tricks you can use to hand-optimize your SVG in order to maximize gzip compression. Premature optimization may be the root of all evil but this is still a great way to learn about how gzip actually works.

# 2:54 pm / gzip, minification, svg

gzthermal (via) “pseudo thermal view of Gzip/Deflate compression efficiency”—neat tool for visualizing gzip compressed data and understanding exactly how run-length encoding and back references apply to a gzipped file.

# 2:56 pm / gzip

simonepri/geo-maps. Neat project which publishes GeoJSON maps of the world automatically derived from OpenStreetMap. Three variants are available: country political maritime boundaries, country political coastline boundaries and a general outline of the world’s land territories.

# 4:06 pm / gis, openstreetmap, geojson

gzthermal-web (via) I built a quick web application wrapping the gzthermal gzip visualization tool and deployed it to Zeit Now wrapped up in a Docker container. Give it a URL and it shows you a PNG visualization of how gzip encodes that page.

# 6:24 pm / projects, sanic, zeit-now, docker