I have nothing but good things to say about the author of that piece.

Pah, amateur. I made two at once.

Well ok, my wife did most of it, but I was definitely a contributing maker.

"instigating" you mean?!

Funny, isn't it. They ruin API access and overcharge for it, so everyone scrapes, and in trying to stop that they ruin the product for the users, without whom it's worth nothing.

Reddit, take note, this is you in 6 months.

> The author is British?

What ho, old bean. Yes, I am.

Haha! Well, evidently I read it wrong!

> What ho, old bean.

That's Jeeves and Wooster. And that was itself a parody.

I use some archaic phrases; I refer to "chaps", some disgraceful act being "a bit off", my hat is my "titfer" (cockney rhyming slang hasn't been restricted to cockneys since the 50s). But I don't pretend to be an Edwardian bourgeois twit, like the ridiculous Rees-Mogg.

I'm sorry I didn't get your humour; it's a drag to have to explain a joke.

That's amazing.

I did consider suggesting replacing the semi-colon with "innit" at the end of each line, but it didn't really fit with the theme.

It's funny, I wrote it very much tongue-in-cheek of course, but as someone who grew up writing HTML and then CSS and using "color" all the time there's probably a little nugget of genuine pent-up irritation hidden in there somewhere.

The footnote for #1 is broken.

# isn't a pound sign, £ is a pound sign.

I see you've played poundy, spoony before.

Thank, fixed.

It's morning here, but thankyou all the same.

No, it's a joke.

Source: I wrote it :)

Well, bugger.

Thanks for your input

Thanks for letting me know my site was down :)

If I ever get around to updating the article, this is going in :)