Data Horde

Why Your CD Player isn’t a good place to store CDs

A decade or two ago, there was a debate on whether or not it was safe to leave a disk inside of the CD player. Back then if you left your disk in the player it was a matter of a few weeks, now though it might be a matter of years...

By themadprogramer October 9, 2020TipsNo Comments

News

Shutdown September: Tales from Websites Shutting Down Across the Interwebs

At the turn of the decade we find ourselves on the verge of a new era, albeit a precarious one. Waning is the age of websites, where there once was…

By themadprogramer October 1, 2020NewsNo Comments

New Project

Help Archive YouTube’s Community Contributions!

YouTube is removing their community contributions feature on September 28. In case you haven't already heard, that's the feature which allows viewers to add captions/subtitles, translated titles and video descriptions…

By themadprogramer September 25, 2020New ProjectNo Comments

History News

The Untold Story of why YouTube is removing Community Contributions; YouTube CC History pt. 4

In the later half of the 2010’s YouTube began putting a greater emphasis on international accessibility over accessibility for the deaf. This change in policy, alienated the Deaf Community who began to criticize the increasing inadequacy of closed captions on the website. The ensuing events would bring about the rise and fall of the feature known as community contributions.

By themadprogramer September 18, 2020History, News1 Comment

History

Scaling the Waterfall, Captions for All; YouTube CC History pt.3

In the early half of the 2010's YouTube would work to increase the percentage of captioned videos on the platform, through various means. This was especially motivated by a rivalry with an up-and-coming subtitling platform, Amara.

By themadprogramer September 12, 2020HistoryNo Comments

History

Pioneering Online Accessibility; YouTube CC History pt.2

In August 2008, Google finally initiated the migration of the closed captions infrastructure from Google Video to YouTube. The following months are nothing short of crazy! Editor improvements, caption translation, automatic captioning and more... A lot of heart and soul was poured into making video more accessible than ever!

By themadprogramer September 4, 2020HistoryNo Comments

History

Unusual Beginnings on Google Video; YouTube CC History pt.1

YouTube's Community Contributions are going away soon, but did you ever wonder how the idea for this feature came about? And would you believe me if I told you that it doesn't even start on YouTube...

By themadprogramer August 28, 2020HistoryNo Comments

News

Adobe’s “End of Life” Killswitch for Flash Player

3 years ago Adobe announced their plans to end their development and support for Flash Player on December 31, 2020, the "end of life" date. More recently they've authored an…

By themadprogramer August 23, 2020NewsNo Comments

Tutorial

How To Find a Speech or Talk on YouTube

Trying to remember where a quote is from? YouTube actually has a hidden feature which you can use to search for a speech, if you know a portion of it.…

By themadprogramer August 15, 2020TutorialNo Comments

News

The Impact of YouTube Removing Community-Contributed Closed Captions

For about a decade now, YouTube has supported one form or another of contributing closed captions on videos which don't already have them. Which is why it is an absolutely HORRIBLE idea that they've decided to remove them by September 28, without offering any real alternatives.

By themadprogramer August 14, 2020NewsNo Comments