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The problem: 1. You try email routing provided by cloudflare. 2. It does not work for you 3. Somehow you get your DNS into an odd state. email routing is disabled because it is misconfigured. 4. You cannot delete your…

I just went to Amazon and searched for "espresso tamper". Of the 15 top results only ONE had a price. Fourteen (14) say "See options" then "put in cart to see price" My first thought is that it was insane. My second…

I have recently had a whole series of amazon shipping failures. I order a set of 16 packages, got one. Talked to customer service got one again. Ordered a thing that said it would arrive on Tuesday, once I bought it,…

One of the things that is stupid about the internet is domain name squatting. People find a potentially good domain name, buy it, have it sit there and maybe someone will buy it so you make an enormous profit. We need a…

Here is an article about raw milk from a supposedly reputable source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/well/eat/health-myths-dairy.html The question is whether we can detect an attempt to persuade us of a conclusion…

"You have received this mandatory service announcement to update you about important changes to Gemini." I get these emails over and over again. No opt out. Google is user hostile and contemptuous. Hey! Lets just all…

Collective Project: JsxToJson Anyone interested in collectively creating and supporting an open source JavaScript project to parse Jsx into Json? Why: I find it much easier to reason about and read Jsx instead of JSON.…

I find (to my surprise) that I like jsx. For example although I like threejs (outstanding), however I keep gravitating to react-three-fiber and react-three-drei. Why? Have I become some react-addled addict? I keep…

It seems like some reasonable people are still on twitter. In my mind (and I could of course be wrong) twitter is harmful to society. Any platform that has code "if isRepublican then x; else if isDemocrat then y" is…

I've been trying to move from nodejs koa to Deno. Increasingly I just can't seem to get there from here. My problems are 1) Deno is not as well supported as Nodejs and 2) I can't figure out which {postgres or upload}…

The specifics: I am trying to get my (new-to-me) Deno web server talking to a Digital Ocean managed database instance running postgres using remote access. I just can't get there from here. I'm new to Deno, and tried…

I've run a couple web servers for years with nodejs. I'm thinking of using Deno instead for a new project and wondering what Deno can't do. I use Postgres, Cors. Nothing really tricky, but just wondering if anyone has…

Anyone have experience using MacinCloud or Scaleway or other MacOS in cloud for development? I want to do IOS development using React Native. Not a large application. My plan would be to run develop on a linux machine…

An example of how to do things wrong when starting a new service. I ordered a pair of shoes that did not fit. So I go to the amazon page and start the return process. Do I want to return or exchange? Exchange. But wait,…

A question that is relevant to all startups maybe.

Right now of the top six stories on: bloomberg.com economist.com facebook.com Why are these on HN? Bloomberg seems omnipresent and todays top story "The Dying Mall's New Lease on Life: Apartments". This seems like spam…

I have been buying Amazon videos so that I can download and watch them on my old iPad. The latest release of the Amazon Prime Video app no longer supports IOS 9.3.5 which is the last version of IOS for my iPad. I can no…

I've been trying to find a good way to combine D3 and React for a long time. Thanks to improvements in D3 and React (hooks) it finally seems possible. I found this series of videos to be outstanding, especially #11…

Trying to get to amazon.com from both Firefox and Safari is giving me a certificate error ...

I just got a 800 call, supposedly from Apple saying my account had been compromised. When it asked if I wanted to speak to an agent, I said yes, then I asked the agent to identify himself. I got an immediate hang up.…

I have not been able to access ap.www.namecheap.com for almost a month now, because traceroute cannot find the server. The domain name resolves, but traceroute. It used to be just from my home machine, but now the same…