goat
Sergey Brin and Larry Page have been young and naive when they came with the Don't be evil motto in 2004. By 2019, having seemingly realized how ridiculous it is, both they and the motto all but disappeared from public eye. The same cannot be said for Google, one of the most powerful companies in the world, clinging to the illusion of being not evil while enabling mass surveillance, political censorship, weapons development, tax evasion, and exploiting monopoly position.
byways
Furkot - a trip planner web application that we develop - displays attractions and points of interest that can be worked into one's trip. So we are constantly on the lookout for websites collecting geotagged information about particular type of attraction, be it divesites or museums, that we can point Furkot to. Imagine my joy - and, as I explain below, imagination is all that you have to go on - when I found byways.org. It was a website for travelers that presented information about scenic roads in US, over 850 of them, complete with maps, photos, and sample trips. And we didn't even have to run our crawler over it, since the raw content was made available as a set of XML files.
online
The condo clearly had wireless network since all our devices were happily connecting, but we could not find anything resembling an access point. Normally we would not even bother, but the Internet seemed sluggish and we were hoping some magic wave and dance (reboot, technically speaking) may help. We spent 30 minutes walking around the apartment watching minute changes on the wireless signal strength heat map, checking all possible boxes connected to electrical outlets. And it was a small flat.