You have probably heard about creators setting up their own streaming websites, a way to monetise their work. This took many forms: Nebula, Dropout, Watcher, … But have you heard about the VOD website that did the opposite? Where creators who are usually behind a paywall sta...

I want to jump onto a little thread that is going on here: Offline break in New Forest RE: Offline break in New Forest RE: RE: ☜ you are here I have a love‐hate relationship to phones. I also daily drive two of them. I try to discourage their use as much as I can...

You know when you get a feeling that something is trending some way? There is a subset of people I see building with AI who are giving me that feeling. Here are some loose thoughts. The feeling is that people no longer know what they do not know. Because they have not given ...

This started happening to me today. But with the way features roll out these days, who know how many people have already had this problem. TL;DR: option ⌥ + W starts Google’s “Help me write” AI in Google Docs, blocking the letter å that has been there on international keyboa...

I never know when I am getting the day off because of a public holiday. At some point in 2020 this got so bad I went looking for an open-source solution. Because every problem is an engineering problem (or not). On my search I found the Holidata project and then created a PR...

This was inspired by something we do at work. We want to be able to very easily confirm the version of our web application running in our production environment. We do this by injecting the git hash of the commit the build is generated from in an HTML comment. I wanted to do...

From De Jacht op de Snark, a translation by Henri Ruizenaar:

De gebruikte methode zou ik graag willen verklaren, Nu ik ’m nog in m’n hoofd heb zitten, Maar de tijd ontbereekt; ook wil ik je hersens sparen – Daar is nog teveel om in om te spitten.

The original in English.

The method employed I would gladly explain, While I have it so clear in my head, If I had but the time and you had but the brain— But much yet remains to be said.

The GOG.COM Summer Sale started this week. I wanted to see which items from my wishlist might be priced low enough that I might buy them without an extra thought. The usual sale page lets anyone scroll down to the full catalog of items and pick a “Sort by” value of “Price”. ...

A lot of grumbling has been felt from broadcasters after ESC 2025. I am often not too bothered by it, as I really dislike hypocritical reactions after the fact. All these broadcasters knew all the rules, probably better than the public when they decided to sign up. There hav...

When YouTube tries to suck you in to the Shorts, that is all they will display on your screen. They might hide the video description away in a menu (you know, the place where some creators like to hide the fact they might be sponsored). They might push you to take certain actions (swap the Subscribe button for the paid Join button).

So it might be good to know that every short is (also) a video. You can take any URL for a short and turn it into a video URL:

  https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rBIVY40gKVc
⤷ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBIVY40gKVc

Now sit back and enjoy the known YouTube UI. As a bonus this also gives access to YouTube’s video transcripts where available.

From my testing it does not seem the oposite is true. Every video is not a short. Trying to open a normal (long form) video on a /shorts/ path will automatically redirect to the full UI.