The owners closed the restaurant and started a new one so I let the domain lapse.

No, you’re just paying a premium.

I got a new Android TV for offline use. Most people say you get an OK experience if you don’t connect the TV into a network.

The biggest remaining annoyance is that it takes 45 seconds to cold-start. Almost as if it’s booting an OS desgined for a phone or something.

We need more people to code like this.

Everyone codes like it will be the only process running on their dev machine. Before you know it, you’ve opened a word processor, a mail client and a chat program. 8GB RAM is gone and the 3.2GHz 8-core CPU is idling at 35%.

OK, here’s how it happened.

I was hungry, and I wanted to see the menu for my local pizza joint. I couldn’t find it anywhere.

I discovered that all their socials linked to a website that wouldn’t load. When I checked, the domain had lapsed.

Out of frustration, I purchased the domain and pulled the last snapshot of their website off archive.org. It had their full menu as a PDF.

6 months later and it’s still getting visitors from their facebook page, who are viewing the menu. They haven’t even realised.

Host all the things!

Wordpress, SMTP/IMAP, tor, bittorrent, Nextcloud, Plex, NTP, photo galleries, DoT…

I even started hosting the website for my local Italian restaurant and they haven’t even realised it yet.