Simon Willison’s Weblog

HTTP + Politics = ? Mark Nottingham ponders the technical implications of Australia’s decision to apply a filter to all internet traffic. Australia is large enough (and far enough away from the northern hemisphere) that the speed of light is a performance issue, but filtering technologies play extremely poorly with optimisation technologies such as HTTP pipelining and Google’s SPDY proposal.

# 3:36 pm / australia, filtering, google, http, mark-nottingham, performance, pipelining, politics, spdy

Semantic Versioning. Tom Preston-Werner provides a name, specification and URL describing the relatively widely used Major.Minor.Patch versioning system. This is really useful—by giving something a name and a spec, people can say “this project uses semantic versioning” and skip having to explain their backwards compatibility policy in full.

# 9:53 pm / naming-things, open-source, semanticversioning, software, tom-preston-werner, versioning

Unicode code converter (via) Fantastically useful tool to convert strings of characters in to every unicode and/or escaping syntax you can possibly imagine.

# 10:10 pm / escaping, tools, unicode

StartupBoeing—Starting an Airline (via) Boeing’s guide to starting your own airline.

# 10:38 pm / airline, boeing, startups