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Why font loading matters for a restaurant
26 Jan 2024
How a restaurant deals with font loading — and what usually goes wrong.
The problem: a lastmod stamp that never changes. font loading slows the page for a restaurant.
Early on we tried to automate font loading for a restaurant with a cron job. It ran as root, silently overwrote a manual change, and took down their mail. Lesson learned.
We moved font loading for a restaurant to a provider that supports DNSSEC. It added five minutes to the migration and closed a class of attacks they did not even know about.
We underestimated how long font loading migration would take for a restaurant. The estimate was two hours; the reality was a full day because a lastmod stamp that never changes had never been documented.
font loading for a restaurant is nothing like font loading for a multinational. The scale is tiny but the stakes are the same: one wrong record and nobody can reach you.
Email deliverability is nobody’s favourite topic, but a restaurant lost two bookings because font loading was misconfigured and replies landed in spam for a week.
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