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How to Spot the A-Story, B-Story, and C-Story in Any TV Show or Movie Image
By: Matthew 2023-12-19

How to Spot the A-Story, B-Story, and C-Story in Any TV Show or Movie

Most shows run multiple storylines at once. Understanding how they're structured, and what the B-story is actually doing, makes everything click differently.

Free Google Maps in Android apps without the SDK Image
By: Matthew 2023-11-28

Free Google Maps in Android apps without the SDK

How to embed Google Maps in an Android WebView without an API key or the Maps SDK, plus the bugs most tutorials get wrong.

How Cloudflare Lets You Point Your Root Domain at a CDN Image
By: Matthew 2023-04-01

How Cloudflare Lets You Point Your Root Domain at a CDN

DNS has a rule that breaks modern deployments, CNAME records can't go on root domains. Here's how Cloudflare quietly works around it.

Cloudflare Wildcard Proxying: What Changed, What Still Matters Image
By: Matthew 2022-11-02

Cloudflare Wildcard Proxying: What Changed, What Still Matters

Cloudflare opened wildcard proxying to all plans in 2022. Here's what that means, how the old CNAME workaround worked, and what limitations still apply.

The Real Story on Sustainable Single-Use Packaging Image
By: Matthew 2021-10-09

The Real Story on Sustainable Single-Use Packaging

Mushroom packaging, seaweed coatings, bamboo cutlery, the actual numbers behind the most interesting alternatives to plastic and styrofoam, plus some counterintuitive trade-offs.