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There's a growing interest in using socket APIs directly within web browsers for various applications, both client-side and server-side. This post lists potential use-cases for outgoing and incoming socket connections, eliminating the need for proxying through web servers. Examples include email clients connecting directly to IMAP/POP3/SMTP, SSH/RDP clients, real-time communication tools like IRC and XMPP, P2P applications like BitTorrent, and direct connections to servers for various purposes like video streaming, Bitcoin, and game multiplayer functionality. For incoming connections, use-cases include hosting servers for many of the aforementioned services (IRC, BitTorrent, HTTP) directly within the browser.

This post announces the implementation of automatic deployment for this blog, powered by Jekyll (Octopress) and GitHub WebHooks. The previous workflow involved local editing, committing to GitHub, and deploying via SSH using rake deploy. The new process leverages GitHub WebHooks and a modified version of Github-Auto-Deploy to automatically pull, build, and deploy changes upon pushing to the GitHub repository, simplifying the deployment process and eliminating the need for terminal access and SSH keys.