Notes from April 2026

After a busy March, April was a little quieter. But don’t worry, I still have a bunch of little links for you to click on. Things I published GitHub’s uptime hasn’t been great recently. Even though I dislike the Microsoft subsidiary, I wrote “In defense of GitHub’s poor uptime”, which argues that it’s not as bad as folks seems to be saying. See this Lobsters thread for some discussion. Published version 0.2.0 of setbigtimeout, my JavaScript library for waiting a very long time. Like every month, I published a few articles over at Zelda Dungeon. We had a slew of shitposts for April Fool’s this year. I think my favorite (not written by me) was “Daily Debate: Do You Think Old Man Was Once Young Man?”. Links I clicked Ghost, my employer, was recognized as a digital public good. “You can’t advertise people out of reacting to their own experiences. This is a fundamental disconnect between how tech people with software brains see the world and how regular people are living their lives.” From…