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About

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I am a principle software engineer that specializes in Internet and web protocols like HTTP/2, HTTP/3 and QUIC.

I presently work at Cloudflare on the Protocols team who own Layer 4 and Layer 7 termination and proxying, helping to improve the security and performance of Internet-facing services. In this role I focus on the application-layer enhancements made possible by leading edge developments in the underpinning protocols. As part of that I’m a co-maintainer of quiche, an open source library for HTTP/3 and QUIC written in Rust.

Antimatter

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I produced this poster as part of a university module entitled Communicating Science.

The poster was targeted toward GCSE and A-Level students hence the bold design and colours to help improve attraction and interest.

I originally uploaded this poster to a past incarnation of www.lucaspardue.co.uk and I was partially surprised to find relinked or reblogged on several sites concerning infographics, physics etc. The poster is linked to by a Rutgers assignment page concerning Information Design and I still seem to have traffic coming from there, so for all the visitors that have been hunting for the poster, here it is.

Publications

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The following is a collection of openly available publications beyond this blog that I have authored or co-authored.

RFCs

Internet-Drafts

Some of these are abandoned or expired:

Blog Posts

QUIC version 1 is Live of Cloudflare
A Last Call for QUIC, a giant leap for the Internet
How to test HTTP/3 and QUIC with Firefox Nightly
Adopting a new approach to HTTP prioritization
HTTP/3: From root to tip
Adaptive Media Streaming over HTTP/2 at the BBC

Other

BBC R&D White Paper 336: Scalable media delivery on the Web with HTTP Server Push

SpotifyStatusApplet

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

SpotifyStatusApplet was broken by a Spotify API change made in Q3 2018. All previous downloads have been removed from this site. I switched to a Logitech G915 TKL in 2021, so I no longer have any plans to work on applets.

SpotifyStatusApplet - an LCD applet for the Logitech Gaming keyboard family.

From version 1.2, the field titles (Track, Album and Artist) can be toggled on/off by pressing “soft key 1”, the first key underneath the LCD on most models.