DNS "propagation" is actually caches expiring
The purpose of DNS is to spread scams
I imagine everyone here has received an unsolicited message telling them that their tax is overdue and that they urgently need to visit Genuine-Tax-Payment-Website.fart or that a parcel is delayed at customs and you can pay a small sum for its release at Almost-The-Right-Acronym.ak You know it is a scam. Most people just mark as spam and move on with their day. But a significant number of people …
mess with dns
It's fun to learn by experimenting and breaking things! Here you can do weird DNS experiments with no consequences if you mess something up.
Useful utilities and toys over DNS
Free and useful services over DNS accessible on command line
How federated systems dissapear
Long-tail effects mean things become invisible, and it is hard to argue for that which does not seem to exist.
savearoundtrip
Publish an HTTPS DNS record. Let browsers reach HTTP/3 on the first connection instead of wasting a round trip.
200 Milliseconds — the complete life of one HTTP request, visualized
A single HTTP request, traced in real time through DNS, TCP, TLS, the kernel, Node's event loop, and Postgres — then back to the pixel. Scroll distance equals time.
Dynamic time decay - For You notes
The For You feed has felt a bit too static because older posts (posted 12-24 hours ago) tend to sit at the top as they have more time to accumulate more likes. To make it surface fresher content more often I applied an exponential time decay with a half-life of 6 hours.
SELECT * FROM internet.blogposts - Paul's Leaflets
Nitter gets a cease & desist from X while the atproto makes the Internet more open.
Dead Forest Theory
Internet darkness is turning into deadness and time is running out
