I just want working RCS messaging

November 18, 2025 I’m in over a month now with non-working RCS on my iPhone 15 Pro. Apple blames the carriers, the carriers tell me it’s not them (mostly T-Mobile since I have good contacts there). They tell me they can’t really do anything about iPhones not working on RCS, go back to Apple. This […]
Lucent 7 R/E 5ESS Telephone Switch Rescue

I am still recovering from the fairly challenging logistical project of saving a Lucent 5ESS. This is a whale of a project and I am still in a state of disbelief that I have gotten to this point. Thanks to my wife, brother, and a few friends for their help and the University of Arizona […]
Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem

On 18 November 2025 at 11:20 UTC (all times in this blog are UTC), Cloudflare’s network began experiencing significant failures to deliver core network traffic. This showed up to Internet users trying to access our customers’ sites as an error page indicating a failure within Cloudflare’s network. The issue was not caused, directly or indirectly, […]
Ford can’t find mechanics for $120K: It takes math to learn a trade

Farley complained that “we don’t have trade schools anymore,” reports Avi Zilber in the New York Post. The Ford CEO’s grandfather was one of the company’s early employees, hired to work on the Model T. “We are not investing in educating a next generation of people like my grandfather who had nothing, who built a […]
GitHub Down
It is insane how many failures we’ve been getting lately, especially related to actions. * jobs not being picked up * jobs not being able to be cancelled * jobs running but showing up as failed * jobs showing up as failed but not running * jobs showing containers as pushed successfully to GitHub’s registry, […]
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The Final Straw: Why Companies Replace Once-Beloved Technology Brands

What causes a business to abandon hardware, software, or tools it once relied on? Enumerating the common reasons helps you recognize when it’s time to move on. Once upon a time, your company ran Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect on Novell servers, wrote its custom applications in Turbo Pascal and Visual Basic, and used Nortel or […]
OrthoRoute – GPU-accelerated autorouting for KiCad

This document is a complement to the README in the Github repository. The README provides information about performance, capabilities, and tests. This document reflects more on the why and how OrthoRoute was developed. This is a project born out of necessity. Another thing I was working on needed an enormous backplane. A PCB with sixteen […]
I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

After nearly 10 years, I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon and transferring my ownership of the trademark and other assets to the Mastodon non-profit. Over the course of my time at Mastodon, I have centered myself less and less in our outward communications, and to some degree, this is the culmination of […]
Show HN: Guts – convert Golang types to TypeScript

guts is a tool to convert golang types to typescript for enabling a consistent type definition across the frontend and backend. It is intended to be called and customized as a library, rather than as a command line executable. See the simple example for a basic usage of the library. type SimpleType[T comparable] struct { […]