How wirepage.net was made to load quickly
A practical look at small pages, server-rendered HTML, restrained JavaScript, compression, caching, and the choices behind this site.
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Notes on making the web smaller, safer, more private, and more useful.
These articles are published when there is something worth explaining. There is no schedule and no feed to keep up with.
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How to browse the web more privately and safely
A realistic checklist for reducing tracking and avoiding common security failures—without pretending that one tool makes anyone invisible.
Read articleWhat “private” means on wirepage.net
What stays on your device, what outside providers receive, and where the limits of the site’s privacy promises begin.
Read articleDesigning websites for slow and unreliable connections
Why resilience starts with useful HTML and how to keep a site working when the network barely does.
Read articleA brief history of privacy on the web
From a document-sharing system to cookies, tracking, regulation, browser defenses, and today’s unresolved privacy tradeoffs.
Read articleThe internet and climate change
Where the internet’s environmental cost comes from, what smaller pages can change, and what they cannot.
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