Collected writings from Darn Fish
On January 14, 2024, Skyname experienced an incident where a malicious actor was able to release and re-register usernames (and subsequently DNS records) for most registered usernames. The attack was detected, mitigated and rolled back within 6 hours, and at most Skyname users had their usernames missing, replaced by "Invalid Handle", for 5 hours.
Wanted to write a small post on some things I accomplished in 2023
I turned 21 this month. Last year I turned 20 and the year before I turned 19.
Social platforms come and go, but it's rare that we get to see one from a company the size of Meta. And it's even rarer when we can start tracking it from before it even launches.
In an earlier blog post I mentioned how if you lose your Apple Music subscription or change regions, you lose your Apple Music library. Turns out, this isn’t true! Or at least isn’t true anymore.
I’ve been using Doppler on both macOS and iOS for a couple months now after switching from Apple Music and I’m a big fan of being able to own your music library. Doppler is very offline-first, so I’ve been wondering how to keep the mostly offline, privacy-preserving aspect with being able to compete with the feature set of a streaming service.
Why I'm ditching Apple Music for buying audio files
Incredibly underrated EP from a band I can’t find anything about (apart from a Bandcamp and a Twitter)
Why I built a custom RSS server to serve up Telegram's product blog
Why is that darn fish blogging?