How HTTP Works with Julia Evans

Julia Evans is best known for her zines and blog posts that break down technical topics in a friendly way. She has written educational material on everything from Linux system calls to working with managers.

She joins us to talk about what she learned while writing her latest zine: HTTP: Learn your browser's language.

Timestamps:

0:50 - Why write a zine about HTTP?1:21 - What's a header that could break your site?2:50 - What does HTTP look like?5:58 - What headers are most important?8:39 - Response Codes12:26 - Authentication14:57 - Cookies18:37 - Using browser development tools19:46 - Caching and CDNs25:46 - Referrer Header and Hotlinking images27:34 - Resuming file downloads 30:00 - URLs32:11 - Why webpages show different languages34:34 - Same Origin Policy / CORS43:42 - Compression / GZIP45:58 - Intermediate Programming Education49:35 - Picking topics for blogs and zines57:10 - Picking an audience to write to59:54 - Types of educational material (zines, books)64:03 - Why Julia likes the zine format65:53 - Working on education full time

Links:

HTTP: Learn your browser's languageJulia's blogJulia's twitterWizard ZinesMozilla Developer Networknetcat