Email Is a Terrible Notification Vector

Notification emails are a lazy way for apps to try to boost their engagement metrics. They’re the junkfood of the app ecosystem: cheap, easy, and lacking any nutritional value.

App developers: read this and pay close attention.

/via Wren Lanier

Current Status

Everyone is complimenting the USPS for how easy and fast the free covid test signup site is to use. Wait until they find out that it’s just sending data to dev/null.

Posted on January 18, 2022

Should have gotten that in 3.

Wordle 211 4/6

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Posted on January 16, 2022

I can’t bring myself to uproot my family and move again. Where would we go? After 2024, it won’t matter where you live in the US, anyway. The entire world is experiencing a hard swing to the right.

Posted on January 15, 2022

We moved To Virginia because it was heading in a really progressive direction. One election cycle later and the state has become a punchline. There’s little difference now between VA and TX/FL. I feel defeated, demoralized, and angry.

Posted on January 15, 2022

I really liked the new Matrix movie. Fight me.

Posted on January 9, 2022

However, I shoveled our sidewalk, the neighbor’s, and part of another neighbor’s.

Posted on January 3, 2022