Notices by Daniel Axtens (daxtens@ozlabs.house)

New type of Computer Person invented: pronounces vi as six

I see lots of complaints that software is too complex bloated and bad these days. I’m sympathetic to some extent but people lose me with the historical comparisons. For example: It’s no longer acceptable to not support Unicode. This is Good - people can use their own scripts and languages more or less seamlessly even if the UI is in English. But rendering Thai or Urdu (or even Arabic!) correctly is inescapably complex. If the historical system can’t do that, it’s not a meaningful comparison!

@michaellewis @alcinnz @digitalRightsNinja @strypey @zeh Fastly takes a lot of pride in its bot detection, but it’s not the team that I work on so I can’t say all that much about it. As open source you might also be a candidate for our Fast Forward program.

@michaellewis happy to put you in touch with some people if that's something you want to explore.

@michaellewis @alcinnz @digitalRightsNinja @strypey @zeh may depend on your budget, and I’m biased because I work there but I think Fastly is very good