The ‘best current practice’ category of rfcs beats any blog post you can read for a topic. For example, I recently got tired of my domain host’s dns flakiness and did my own thing.

I couldn’t fully remember how soa serial numbers worked for secondaries and rfc 2182 showed me the money real fast. The alternative is sludging through multiple serps of ad spam.

It’s unusual, but my favorite part of blogging is coming up with the most boring and anti–clickbait titles possible. In another life, I’d be an undercover agent.

Moon installation for the Mid-Autumn Festival in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (© Lim Huey Teng/Reuters)

Most software, framework, and programming debates online reduce to disputes over company or personal preferences — mindshare. Technical and architectural debates are rare — those fights are the most interesting because that’s the important part, at least imo.

Lighthouse Reef, Blue Hole Natural Monument, Belize (© Tom Till/Alamy)

cgit is good. I’ve added a small note on using git maintenance with cgit.

Fresh 1.1 - automatic JSX, plugins, DevTools, and more

In June 2021, we decided to start converting the source code for MDN web docs from HTML into a format that would be easier for us to work with. The goal was to get 100% of our manually-written documentation converted to Markdown, and we really had a …

Safari Technology Preview Release 153 is now available for download for macOS Monterey 12.3 or later and macOS Ventura beta.

I’ve noticed that ddos attacks are becoming commonplace on my domain hosting provider’s dns name servers (Porkbun).

Looks like they’ve migrated over to Cloudflare to remedy the situation, but the migration was wonky.

In the end, having full programmatic control over dns records, transfers, and zones is priceless. So… with a few glue records and zone files — my dns is now back under my control with bind.