Probably biased, but this raises questions about xz.

A follow up on the Dropbox sync engine rewrite, or why they introduced brotli compression.

Better not trust ZIP files you receive...

Nice little trick to get rid of some malicious bots.

Interesting exploration of the performance for web resources when they're bundled or not. Also dabbles in the reasons behind the exhibited performances, definitely to keep in mind.

Interesting new compression format around the corner. Might turn out useful in some cases. I could definitely have used it last year for a test harness with very large reference data (so no, not gaming).

Nice higher level view of how a codec like H.264 works. Not really dive in the intricate details specific to H.264 though.