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Cache Me Not, Cache Me, Cache Me Not


Caching is hard. So hard. But also, we are so fucking bad at it. Every time I have to use a public wifi setup I have a joker moment. Does absolutely nobody test...

Motherfucker, you have the same fucking iconography for three years, why does it load correctly and then ALL OF THE ICONS FAIL ONCE I DROP TO A SHIT INTERNET CONNECTION? Mobile apps and other non-web stuff is also designed to handle push + owned extremely well, so it’s even more disappointing how bad things have gotten with this lately. But you can save yourself a ton of trouble if you have them upload the content rather than link it, and then you can host it on your own CDN, cache the url, and reference it immutably.

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