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Ernie Smith

ernie@writing-exchange.mostr.pub

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Editor of Tedium, an offbeat newsletter that’s been rocking since 2015. I complain on the internet a lot, and I accidentally made a search engine. Support what I do here: https://ko-fi.com/tedium Interests: #writing #news #history #technology #retrotech #weird #geoworks #freelance

Ernie Smith 5 months ago

About a month or two ago, I got an intriguing email with the subject line “The Laundry Room Search Engine.” A guy built his own quite-good search engine—and yes, it's currently sitting in his laundry room. Here's how he did it: https://www.fastcompany.com/91396271/searcha-page-seekninja-diy-search-engines me @npub17eyh...f2eu

Ernie Smith 6 months ago

So apparently we are within the last 60 days of dial-up AOL being a thing.

https://help.aol.com/

Dial-up Internet to be discontinued

Learn about why dial up internet has been discontinued.

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Ernie Smith 7 months ago

Just learned there was a new Google udm code discovered. So you know what I had to do.

&udm=14 | the disenshittification Konami code

A quick way to get an AI-free search without any extra work.

Still kicking in on the DNS front, but it’s already up.

Ernie Smith 1 year ago

I bought the Jesse Welles album. He doesn’t have a Bandcamp. I had to buy it from Amazon.

Ernie Smith 1 year ago

Southwest’s tech debt hurt it a few months ago but it seems to be doing it some favors today. Windows 3.1 taketh away, but sometimes Windows 3.1 giveth.

Digital Trends

A Windows version from 1992 is saving Southwest’s butt right now

Southwest hasn't been impacted by the CrowdStrike outage, and that's reportedly because it's still running Windows 3.1.

Ernie Smith 2 years ago

This is really fascinating. A company rebuilt Mastodon’s core functions with a new dev technology that flies in comparison to Ruby on Rails.

How we reduced the cost of building Twitter at Twitter-scale by 100x – Blog

(EDIT: They may not be open sourcing the dev tech)

Ernie Smith 2 years ago

Without looking it up who is this

Ernie Smith 2 years ago

Cool idea.

Markwhen

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