thatsnothowyoudoit
@thatsnothowyoudoit@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Strava just killed its free API, will require a subscription if you want to build on top of it 1 week ago:
I was a paying customer for over 10 years and it just got worse and worse. I quit several years ago and haven’t looked back.
As it turns out, I love and I have always loved cycling and don’t need anyone else to see that.
I’m not saying that anyone else should behave the same way, you do you, but it was so freeing to just ride for the love of riding. No more “600m of circles” to make it to 200k, no more kudos to every workday commute, just the open road (or trails) and the freedom it provides.
Yes, I no longer race, but I do privately keep a record of my efforts and rides, but they’re now a side effect of the thing I love - not part of the focus.
- Comment on Aggressive AI scrapers are making it kinda suck to run wikis 3 weeks ago:
We use NGINX’s 444 response A LOT.
In coordination with careful rate-limiting, it’s been a dramatic improvement.
The worst of the bots don’t advertise their User Agent (or worse, attempt to present they’re a normal user making 100s of requests a second) but there’s lots of low hanging fruit.