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This app looks to be incorrectly parsing Slack and Auth0 official status page and showing incidents as ongoing that are not And those are just the 2 that I checked. To be fair, acc…

Pretty cool visualization. I've been building something like this for 12 years now. One major difference is mine does not only rely on the "official" status page but also receive m…

I started scraping the Shopify status page every 5 minutes back in March of 2015 so I have more than 11 years of history. This isn't the first outage and won't be the last but it's…

I was shocked to see that a "brand name" stethoscope is $100+ and even generic ones are $30.

A single engineer should not get fired for an architectural decision that clearly had buy in from many people.

Yes because if it helps keep devices in use longer it helps reduce waste and the planetary impacts of a culture of disposable products.

The Apple status pages (both of them) are some of the worst of the big league offenders, perhaps second only to Microsoft. Full disclosure, I operate a product that compares offici…

HyperCard was definitely my first taste of what would become my career in web software development. I wasn't a Mac user at home, but school had them and I absolutely loved what I c…

I thought so, too. I randomly found this on Reddit and it struck a chord with me, especially as an urban dweller that absolutely despises litter and litterers.

Or any more than "full self driving" by 2017.

I do appreciate these post mortems from Cloudflare, however I wish they would include timestamps of their status page posts in their timelines. In this case, the timeline states "I…

Why?

These demonstrate just how car-obsessed our society is. Depressing.

Any practical use for this IKEA data specifically? Or just a handy open data set you could use to prove out the concept?

They do back a lot of companies. Is there any evidence that they are pushing unethical or illegal business practices on their portfolio companies at a rate higher than non-YC start…

Citation needed.

GitHub published a postmortem for yesterday's outage already, and the cause surprised me: They blame scrapers, or rather ONE specific scraper, for taking down GitHub for 7 hours.