I guess it was in early 2019 when Google announced they would be breaking thousands of development and test environments by making the ".dev" domain a thing (archive link to announcement).

Four years later they sold their entire Google Domains operation to Squarespace (archived).

And, yeah, I have two of these ".dev" domains registered and so this has now become my problem. And remains my problem! Here's the timeline so far.

• April 1, 2024 - I receive my first "<domain> is now available in your Squarespace Domains account" email. I grudgingly sign in and confirm that this is real. I decide to wait until all (2) of my domains are in their system to do anything about it.
• April 23, 2024 - 22 days later I received the second and final "is now available in your Squarespace Domains account" email.
• May 9, 2024, I'm guessing 7pm-ish EDT - I start the process of migrating both domains to another registrar. The new registrar helps walk me through the process of unlocking the domain at Squarespace and requesting the required transfer code. To my annoyance, Squarespace informs me that they may take up to 24 hours to send the transfer code.
• May 9, 2024, 11:15pm EDT - Squarespace sends the transfer codes.
• May 10, 2024, 12pm-ish EDT - I enter the codes at the new registrar and pay for the transfer. About 15 minutes later, the new registrar lists the transfer as "Awaiting release from previous registrar." According to discussions I found in searching, this usually means there is a button to push on the old registrar's dashboard to approve the transfer. I check my Squarespace Domains account and cannot find any such button or indication that the transfer is happening.
• May 10, 2024, 2:34pm EDT - Squarespace sends emails informing me of the pending transfer, including a "Review Request" button. Clicking on "Review Request" takes me to a page where I can cancel the transfer, but no feature for me to approve the transfer.
  • I visit the Squarespace Domains dashboard for these domains and again there is no indication that the transfer is happening, much less a way to quickly approve it.
  • Upon closer reading of the notification emails, I find the text: "If we do not hear from you by May 15, 2024, the transfer will proceed." 

I guess Squarespace intends to sit on my domains for another 5 days, hoping I will fall for their deceptive pattern and cancel the transfer?

Update 2024-05-10 3:15pm EDT: lol I tried their chat bot

Update 2024-05-13 11:10am EDT: still waiting

Continue to watch this space? I guess??

Anyway, you asked.

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The People’s Joker time

Sliced a little extra off the bottom in FlashPrint. Nice and quick and the result feels sturdy with both a GameBoy Advance and a GameBoy Color!

NYTimes trying to prove that we cannot have nice things on the open web. 🤬

https://www.404media.co/nytimes-files-copyright-takedowns-against-hundreds-of-wordle-clones/

Per the Times’ complaint:

The Times’s Wordle copyright includes the unique elements of its immensely popular game, such as the 5x6 grid, green tiles to indicate correct guesses, yellow tiles to indicate the correct letter but the wrong place within the word, and the keyboard directly beneath the grid. Times’s Wordle copyright includes the unique elements of its immensely popular game, such as the 5x6 grid, green tiles to indicate correct guesses, yellow tiles to indicate the correct letter but the wrong place within the word, and the keyboard directly beneath the grid.

Wow, folks. Careful about how you place keyboards relative to grids.

Thanks to capjamesg and Jeremy Cherfas in the IndieWeb chat for the nudge to post something on Leap Day because - have I ever made a Leap Day post?

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Outside seating getting harder to find. 🧣🧤

Let’s Argento! 🧙‍♀️🔪

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Gutenberg!

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