As you may know, GitHub recently complied with an RIAA legal threat demanding they cease distributing youtube-dl. Last time something like this happened, nerds around the world revolted by putting the affected software on T-shirts and whatever other media they could get their hands on.| notes.rolandcrosby.com
I love the phrase “much ballyhooed”: I even used it as my Twitter bio for a while. Does anyone ever use any word besides “much” before “ballyhooed”? Has anything ever been described as “occasionally ballyhooed”?| notes.rolandcrosby.com
A couple of days ago, I was working on a web server, and I got stuck on the “tell the server to listen on localhost:3000” step. Why was I using port 3000? For local development, it’s a meaningless and arbitrary choice. That got me to wondering: what port numbers do others choose use when developing software?| notes.rolandcrosby.com
A few days ago I wanted to find a dataset with a list of winners of the Palme d’Or. The table on Wikipedia wasn’t formatted in a way that would be easy to copy, and I figured this was as good a time as any to figure out how Wikidata works.| notes.rolandcrosby.com
An incomplete and infuriating list.| notes.rolandcrosby.com