A down detector for down detector’s down detector
Downdetector’s Downdetector’s Downdetector A tiny independent status checker. All Systems Operational Downdetector’s Downdetector is responding normally from all regions. CHECKS BY REGION Region Status HTTP Latency London, GB ● Up 200 320 ms Sydney, AU ● Up 200 468 ms New Jersey, US ● Up 200 504 ms Last checked: 2 minutes ago – 3 […]
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 […]
I made a down detector for down detector
Checks by region Region Status HTTP Latency Loading region checks…
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 […]