About a month or two ago, I got an intriguing email with the subject line “The Laundry Room Search Engine.” A guy built his own quite-good search engine—and yes, it's currently sitting in his laundry room. Here's how he did it: https://www.fastcompany.com/91396271/searcha-page-seekninja-diy-search-engines me @npub17eyh...f2eu

So apparently we are within the last 60 days of dial-up AOL being a thing.

https://help.aol.com/

Dial-up Internet to be discontinued

Learn about why dial up internet has been discontinued.

ht @npub17t77...zuxj

Just learned there was a new Google udm code discovered. So you know what I had to do.

&udm=14 | the disenshittification Konami code

A quick way to get an AI-free search without any extra work.

Still kicking in on the DNS front, but it’s already up.

People who try to inject culture war drama into open-source projects *cough Dunluke cough* don’t deserve a moment of your time

I bought the Jesse Welles album. He doesn’t have a Bandcamp. I had to buy it from Amazon.

Southwest’s tech debt hurt it a few months ago but it seems to be doing it some favors today. Windows 3.1 taketh away, but sometimes Windows 3.1 giveth.

Digital Trends

A Windows version from 1992 is saving Southwest’s butt right now

Southwest hasn't been impacted by the CrowdStrike outage, and that's reportedly because it's still running Windows 3.1.

It’s not at all surprising, but this sucks.

Inside Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show:<strong> </strong>16<strong> </strong>Staffers Allege Erratic Behavior

Sixteen current and former staffers of 'The Tonight Show' say Fallon’s erratic behavior spoiled their 'dream' of working on t...

A big chunk of Motherboard’s staff just went off and built their own thing. Reader-supported tech media. Support them here:

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This is really fascinating. A company rebuilt Mastodon’s core functions with a new dev technology that flies in comparison to Ruby on Rails.

How we reduced the cost of building Twitter at Twitter-scale by 100x – Blog

(EDIT: They may not be open sourcing the dev tech)

Without looking it up who is this

Tedium has long had a Patreon, but I haven’t done a ton to promote it in recent years in part because of time and management challenges. I would like to get back into that, however. My question is: If I wanted to move somewhere else, how could I do so without losing a consistent couple hundred dollars of revenue each month?

Cool idea.

Markwhen