> Annoyingly, I host my blog on GitHub pages, which doesn’t support Brotli.
Is the glaringly obvious solution to this not as obvious as I think it is?
TFA went through a lot of round-about work to get (some) Brotli compression. Very impressive Yak Shave!
If you're married to the idea of a Git-based automatically published web site, you could at least replicate your code and site to Gitlab Pages, which has supported precompressed Brotli since 2019. Or use one of Cloudflare's free tier services. There's a variety of ways to solve this problem before the first byte is sent to the client.
Far too much of the world's source code already depends exclusively on Github. I find it distasteful to also have the small web do the same while blindly accepting an inferior experience and worse technology.
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> Annoyingly, I host my blog on GitHub pages, which doesn’t support Brotli.
Is the glaringly obvious solution to this not as obvious as I think it is?
TFA went through a lot of round-about work to get (some) Brotli compression. Very impressive Yak Shave!
If you're married to the idea of a Git-based automatically published web site, you could at least replicate your code and site to Gitlab Pages, which has supported precompressed Brotli since 2019. Or use one of Cloudflare's free tier services. There's a variety of ways to solve this problem before the first byte is sent to the client.
Far too much of the world's source code already depends exclusively on Github. I find it distasteful to also have the small web do the same while blindly accepting an inferior experience and worse technology.