One about the annoying things about Maciej is that he acquired Delicious the domain .icio.us, but never did anything auspicious, maybe suspicious or malicious with the latter.
Does anyone remember the "every man" something or other Japanese website with funny WebGL / Three.js experiments from back in ~2015? It had a character builder and fun interactivity, and I could have sworn I learned about it on HN. I think Adult Swim briefly bought it and then shuttered it. It had a really silly domain name.
Just the other day I noticed that some kind soul set up http://subprocess.run to redirect to the python3 documentation.
I do get frustrated sometimes at the "omnibar" because of its inability to determine if I want to search for something or go to a url. It is especially irksome because the TLDs keep getting extended and I can't keep track anymore.
Yeah, I use that so much for notes and stuff that I had to create an app script to clean my GDrive from the hundreds, if not 1000+, of "unnamed document"s left behind.
I have youknowwhat.com. Bought it back when there was only one company selling domains and you had to pay two years in advance.
I used to get SO many "ecard" receipts from people who thought they were being clever by putting the "From:" as youknowwho@youknowwhat.com
It was so many emails, in fact, that I had to change email providers because they were threatening to kick me off from the traffic. That, and every other spammy email system that existed because that email address was in every single mailing list ever haha.
I'm working on a personal project (which is very much not done) which is at the domain https://invit.ing/
It's for creating little invites for small events. Each event gets a https://invit.ing/ short link. No plans to make it profitable, just fun to build :)
One of the best domains I've ever seen is a local law firm in Houston, Pusch and Nguyen, who leaned into the common misspellings and has pushwin.com. (Alas, it's just a redirect to their main domain)
Honestly I think I happened to be on godaddy like 12 years ago looking for a domain and saw it was coming soon. And then I stayed up and tried to get a domain haha
I have little faith in the government organisations and registrars that run ccTLDs (which are likely to have political risk as well), and I'm glad that NPR likely thinks the same way.
I’m going to be this “old grumpy” guy and mention that I hate it when I see plain text URLs which aren’t hyperlinked… come on, we’re in 2025 just do us a favor and put links, why do I have to select the text, copy it, open a new tab and then paste it (I’m using an older iPad). Even on desktop I have to select the text, right click and then visit the site.
https://pi.ctu.re
I also needed to build another app to fetch and resize the images, and found it neat to use the following:
https://infra.stru.ctu.re
In term of users the service never went anywhere and it's quite dated now but it doesn't cost much to keep it online and it's open source.
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