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DNS started as a text file on Jon’s computer. To register a new domain you would email Jon.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

spring things: grilling halloumi, cold beer, playoff hockey

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Seattle officially named 8th PWHL franchise, will join Vancouver as only West coast teams

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

📝 I find it ironic that the web platform has such a strong ethos of "no breaking changes” but the tools we use to build on top of the web are like "BREAKING CHANGE ALL THE THINGS” blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/backwar...

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

annoyed by vote splitting

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

✅Voted

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

code maintenance is a larger window of time than the time it takes to initially author code. yet we only seem to consider that initial release as the part that should be fast. if anything speed is FAR more critical when upgrading a dep, patching a security hole, or recovering from an outage!

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

😑

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Success (any kind) is a mix of luck, a few good calls, and not fucking up the rest too spectacularly. Yet, cognitive biases¹ turn chaos into case studies. When someone presents their journey like divine revelation, take it with a grain of 🧂. Learn from the insights, discard what doesn’t resonate.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

new unit of measurement dropped jasondeegan.com/canadian-rob...

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

everybody shut up about AI until this is what we’re talking about

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

It's funny how before you'd come to a new design system and think "ah I see how we could update our CSS to use more modern techniques" and now it's like "ah I see how we need to completely re-architect our entire system because you fell pray to css-in-js"

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

I will say this - EVERYONE with power seems to be desperately hoping that unpopularity does the work that consequences need to do

submitted 19 days ago • 211 comments

A good read about how the US bond market and Canada. deanblundell.substack.com/p/carneys-ch...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

I don't really talk publically about my politics, though I suspect they can be derived from some of my views. But I was spurred on to (finally) put down in black and white (bytes) where I stand, particularly when it comes to events: remysharp.com/2025/04/07/d...

submitted 22 days ago • 11 comments

🔥 www.sanity.io/spring-relea... 🔥

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

apparently switch 2 preorder starts tomorrow in canada 💸

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

idk what percentage of distributed systems problems are solved by putting a queue in there but seems like most

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Exactly. USA has a huge services surplus. EU, Canada -fight back. "European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde is calling for a payments revolution — one that breaks Europe's reliance on U.S. and Chinese platforms like Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, and Alipay" www.businesstoday.in/world/us/sto...

submitted 28 days ago • 11 comments

🚨🚨🚨 Ovechkin is likely to make history in the next ten mins

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

art of the deal

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

implemented Floyd-Steinberg error diffusion dithering in a spreadsheet, not sure why

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments