Dutch geek in London ♥️ free open-source software.
Principal software engineer at Wikimedia Foundation, @qunitjs lead maintainer. Interested in: Wikipedia, web standards, web performance,, user-interface design, digital privacy and security. He/him.
Linguistics alt: @krinkle at polyglot.city.
#webperf #standards #infosec #php #mediawiki #qunit
"The land before modern APIs" by Darius Kazemi (@darius)
Nice history of HTTP status codes.
""" The numeric codes are assigned by groups [to] hopefully cover other protocols besides RJE (like FTP). """
This is from RFC 360, about a Remote Job Entry protocol (RJE), submitted in 1972. You know you're in deep, when reading a three-digit IETF RFC!
#1970s #retro #nostalgia
https://increment.com/apis/land-before-modern-apis/