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Author: Andrew

  • Change the flag

    The licensing was unclear on Wikipedia but you know the flag that I mean:

    used by Alan Bond in the 1983 America’s Cup and by the Australian Olympic Committee for the 2000 Olympic Games.

    The Union Jack obviously needs to go and more people recognise kangaroos than the Southern Cross.  Just imagine our cool cartoon roo amongst all the boring stars, stripes, crescents, etc

  • Top GTLDs 2023

    1. .com
    2. .org
    3. .io/.co/.net
    4. .ai/.xyz
    5. .dog/.lol/.wtf

    Top = my favourite. GTLD = generic top level domain. Best for digital product and services and/or if you sell to multiple countries.

    • No, no, you’re right. You’re smarter than Paul Graham, Jeff Bezos, Elon and Zuck. Low renewal fees, a namesake stock market bubble and trillions of dollars of value created 😉
    • Wikipedia lifts .org above every other alt TLD. Usage is situational but there are plenty of businesses where it makes sense, see Craigslist and AdBlock Plus. I also have a soft spot for it because I flipped superfungames.org for a cool $500 when I was a young buck
    • .co’s biggest strength is also its biggest weakness; its similarity to .com. You will leak more traffic and emails but if users actually make it to your site then it might seem more familiar
    • .io has existential issues and renewals are a ripoff but tech bros love it
    • .net seems dated but renewals are reasonable and it is still familiar to a lot of users. Your average small business is probably better served with a .net than a .co (less leakage and renewals cost half as much)
    • .ai renewals are obscene and I doubt it has staying power
    • Cheap registrations led .xyz to being abused by spammers and scammers
    • I’m joking about .dog but honestly if you’re not using .com you may as well
    • I have seen .lol and .wtf do well on Hacker News

  • Things to like about $SE

    DYOR.

    • Founder led
    • Great domain name (sea.com)
    • Diversified (gaming/shopping/payments)
    • eCommerce market leader in SEA (Shopee)
    • Top mobile games in emerging markets
    • Based in Singapore

  • Short form video experiments

    Instagram has outperformed YouTube and TikTok so far. Most are text only but Pexels was a good discovery. Watching followers increase has been a nice change from waiting for domains to sell and stocks to go up.

  • An alternative to WordPress’ 100 year plan

    https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/08/25/introducing-the-100-year-plan/

    Assuming it’s a .com, renew for nine years (the maximum allowed by Verisign anyway) for < $100. Keep the remaining $37,900 in a savings account and reinvest the $1500/yr of interest into annual renewals and alternative forms of “securing your legacy”.  Even if Verisign continues to inflate prices at the current rate, you’re looking at $62/yr .com renewals by 2050. You can probably hedge the risk of price increases outpacing your returns by investing in Verisign and GoDaddy?

  • How to take a full page screenshot in Chrome on Mac and Windows

    1. Mac: Cmd + Opt + I Windows: Ctrl + Shift + I
    2. Mac: Cmd + shift + P Windows: Ctrl + Shift + P
    3. Run >, type “screenshot”
    4. Select “full size screenshot”

    Bonus: Cmd + shift + 5 for screenshot and screen record on Mac

  • Test on Quest

  • New logo

    I mostly wanted a favicon. Tried red and blue semi circles facing right and down before settling on a jungle green semi circle facing up. Letter logos are played out. It kind of looks like a hill?

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  • Threads vs Instagram

    Threads with images look very similar to Instagram posts…

  • Love and Mercy

    The Beach Boys had messed up lives. Paul Giamatti is good as Eugene Landy.