Mark Nottingham

To help find relevant RFCs no matter what your network connectivity, https://rfc.fyi now implements a service worker that caches the data locally for offline use, and can be installed as a Progressive Web app (PWA) -- i.e., you can install it to your iOS or Android home screen.

Note that it still points to online-only RFCs at the RFC Editor site.

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Show threadStuart Langridge6d ago
@mnot heh. In my head the conversation went:
Wouldn’t it be worth caching them all offline rather than linking to the site? There can’t be that many and they’re plain text
Just how many RFCs are there anyway?
There are TEN THOUSAND???
A zip file of all of them, just as text, is half a gig??
OK now I see why mnot did it this way :-)
Show threadbkardell6d ago
@sil @mnot so like, twice the size of a page in a few years? 😜😭
Show threadaspragg5d ago

@sil @mnot Wait, half a gig? I thought Debian had packages for those, and they weren't anywhere near that big, were they?

*tippy tappy*

https://tracker.debian.org/news/1412242/accepted-doc-rfc-20230121-1-source-all-into-unstable/

> 461535648 doc-rfc_20230121.orig.tar.gz

461MB zipped. Huh. I guess my memory is a bit off then.

Wait, what about historically?

*tippy tappy*

https://tracker.debian.org/news/457888/installed-doc-rfc-20010331-1-all-source/

> 44166426 doc optional doc-rfc_20010331.orig.tar.gz

44MB. That's a bit more sensible. Quite an increase over the last... 25 years? Oh, OK. Yeah, that's a long time.

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