July 2024
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How the mighty have fallen
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12 years ago I had a random idea for a restaurant menu app. As was the custom, I threw together a basic landing page with a mockup and an email field. Got featured in a couple of publications that didn’t do their research properly and got a couple of hundred signups, which I never did anything with.
I mostly forgot about it since, but kept the URL live out of nostalgia. This morning I got a GoDaddy email saying it was up for renewal. I went to the URL and… it now links to a page selling viagra?
How is that possible? I think domain was pointed at a MediaTemple hosted page… and presumably GoDaddy doesn’t let just anyone log into my account and redirect it?
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Mastodon’s non-algorithmic feed is its killer feature. I never want to go back.
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Interesting critique of the pictograms for Paris 2024 Olympics.
Tl;dw: they’re beautiful, but they don’t function well
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Quite an effective use of 14 to be fair
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Sweden update: still no meatballs
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I’ve been in Sweden for over 3 hours and I haven’t seen a single meatball
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It’s kinda uncanny watching Canon trying to do the Apple thing here… but from what looks like a 90s office lobby
youtu.be/d0ZHqRz9xeQ?si=vexPREVg36XcVTHk
“See any issues with us announcing a cutting edge new product with a backdrop that says History of Canon Cameras”
“Nope.”
“How about the big red fire alarm on the wall, should we cover that with a plant or something?”
“Nah keep it; it matches her trousers and keeps the audience wondering if it might go off any second”
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Anytime I hear someone speaking German my brain now assumes they’re rapping the Barbara’s Rhubarb Bar song and I have to fight the urge to join in
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What are your go-to coding fonts these days?
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That’s a weird way to say “England lose to New Zealand, as usual”
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The KFC car park in Coleraine is not a place of honour.
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TIL that MongoDB cloud just randomly deletes old free databases without warning
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Some great thoughts on making design systems more effective by @camworboys