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awill··on deSEC – Free Secure DNS
I signed up and saw they only allowed a single subdomain for DDNS, with docs saying to contact support if you needed more. I emailed asking for just 1 more subdomain and support told me that for my usecase I should just use CloudFlare.

So I did. No silly miniscule restrictions.

awill··on We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself
I just signed up. The website (despite saying it's free here) has numerous banners of trials and free credits. Not quite what I was expecting from 'free'
awill··on Steam Machine launches today
I wish they had a few different options with better specs. Or maybe a shell with the case/fan/mobo etc.. where you can just add CPU/GPU/RAM. I'd love that, and would be willing to pay extra to get something a bit more modern.

I want a Steam Machine for my living room, but these specs are just terrible for 2026. According to Digital Foundry, this $1200 machine is worse than a $500 6-year-old base PS5.

awill··on Flighty Airports
Not sure how they're getting their data, but https://tsa.fromthetraytable.com/
awill··on [dead]
Gmail will start removing support for the following features:

Gmailify: This feature allows you to get special features like spam protection or inbox organization applied to your third-party email account. Learn more about Gmailify.

Check mail from other accounts: Fetching emails from third-party accounts into your Gmail account, with POP, will no longer be supported.

awill··on The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal
Let me just for one second give them the benefit of the doubt.

Could the $45 be a way to pay for some extra manual screening? Maybe? Or do they not deserve any benefit of the doubt.

awill··on Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores
this is pretty surprising. Didn't they spent a fortune on the camera tech for Amazon Go?
awill··on JuiceSSH – Give me my pro features back
There are just fewer highly polished Android apps vs iOS apps, and that's why I switched to iOS.

I bought JuiceSSH years ago on Android and it worked great, but I agree it's degraded, and I couldn't find an equivalent I liked.

iOS has multiple apps that beat JuiceSSH. I use Termix and it's really, really good.

awill··on Orion 1.0
Is this Webkit 2?
awill··on Helping Valve to power up Steam devices
I have a super high opinion of Valve. Sure, they have loot crates. But sensible people don't buy them. I guess you could blame them for having it in the first place. That's fair I guess. But I've never for a second considered buying any of that junk.

I just buy single player offline games with no IAP, and Steam is amazing. It's a million miles ahead of the competitors, and it's really surprising that EA/Ubi etc.. try to compete but don't get the reason they're losing. They screw customers and then act surprised that customers hate them.

awill··on Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable
yes. It's terrible. I can't believe it's taken this long to still be awful. The mix of Java. The awful UI. If you're on Mac/Windows, you should buy Office. And if you're on Linux, you should use OnlyOffice, or Google Docs
awill··on Warp Terminal changes pricing model
Oh no. Did I miss something? Did Zed get a bunch of unnecessary funding that will force them to do some subscription we'll all hate?
awill··on JetKVM – Control any computer remotely
From the specs it's very annoying this uses a mini-HDMI. There's room for a full HDMI port, and it's such a waste. We all have dozens of HDMI cables at home, but zero mini-HDMI.
awill··on Google flags Immich sites as dangerous
I'm sure it was a simple mistake. The fact that Immich competes with Google Photos has nothing to do with it.
awill··on Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout
I interviewed in 2015. The recruiter told me to read the Amazon Leadership Principles, but I thought it was ridiculous to prep for something so specific to a single company, especially as I was interviewing at other companies too.

I got the job, and I think being natural helped. I've interviewed thousands of people at Amazon since, and too many people just say the buzz words with no meat, and it gets them nowhere i.e. I showed customer obsession when I.....(and then gives a bad example)

awill··on Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout
I've worked there since 2015, and this simply isn't true.

There's a lot wrong with AWS (and it's got a lot worse in the last 3 years), but there's also a lot right, and there are some really, really smart people there, several of which have boomeranged (people who left and came back).

awill··on AMD and Sony's PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline
3rd party games will still want to launch on the Nintendo Switch 2, so it's still the same problem.
awill··on Self hosting 10TB in S3 on a framework laptop and disks
title is 'Self hosting 10TB IN S3.'

Yes, it's obvious, but it's a terrible title. I don't really get the point. It's trivial to have storage however you want an shove the S3 API on top.

awill··on Self hosting 10TB in S3 on a framework laptop and disks
>>About 5 months ago I made the decision to start self hosting my own S3.

It is eleven nines of durability? No. You didn't build S3. You built a cheapo NAS.

awill··on About the security content of iOS 15.8.5 and iPadOS 15.8.5
I remember when Google broke 911 calling, and decided it was ok to wait for the next maintenance patch to fix it. People could have died, but Google just couldn't hurry up and release an emergency patch.
awill··on Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office
Working at a company that did the same thing earlier, it's incredibly frustrating.

This would have made sense when the company was all at one site, but over the last 5 years my company (and microsoft) have massively expanded.

So now I drive to the office and video call my colleagues in other sites. Brilliant.

awill··on Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war
Agree. It would be really messy if they were paying AI engineers multiple time more than regular engineers.
awill··on Monodraw
I think you're missing his point. If you tightened DRM, would those customers that ran multiple copies pay for multiple licenses?

Fighting piracy is generally not worth it. Those people would never pay, so you're fighting to stop a pirate from using it, not to get them to pay. There's a big difference.

awill··on Sequoia backs Zed
It does look like ST is lost here. They don't know where to go next. But I do like their Sublime Merge product. It's really good.
awill··on Dropbox announces new gen server hardware for higher efficiency and scalability
I worked on S3. It's not.
awill··on Dropbox announces new gen server hardware for higher efficiency and scalability
Dropbox Storage is a MUCH easier problem to solve than S3. They don't have the mix of high perf vs cold backup storage, so design is much, much simpler.
awill··on Orion Browser
How do you plan to solve sync (bookmarks, history etc..) when going cross platform? iCloud makes things easy when it's just Mac/iOS, but that won't work for Linux.

I use Linux at home, Mac at work, and have an iPhone, and very few apps look native and work seamlessly across all 3.

awill··on Show HN: Whenish – Plan Group Events in iMessages
I get it, but that's a hurdle for a lot of people. If someone is using this just once, they don't want to download an app. This feels like it will take convincing.
awill··on Android and Wear OS are getting a redesign
So many people I work with (in tech) were on Android for years, and all eventually switched to iOS.

My biggest issue with Google is they aren't convicted in anything they do. They just guess, or try 5 different things, and see what sticks. That makes it a mess for users, as the UX constantly changes.

I also can't understand why Google decided a circular face made sense for Wear. It's good for analogue watches, and garbage for everything else. Try reading a message where words are either cut off, or you're stuck basically using a square inside the circle. It makes no sense other than because Google didn't want to 'copy' Apple with the rectangular shape.

awill··on Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor
As a longtime Sublime user, Sublime really needs to step it up. Presumably their silence is because they're (hopefully) releasing something big soon.
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