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Jonathan Brewer
@kiwibrew.bsky.social
I design and build networks for broadband,
public safety, utilities, and the Internet of Things.
jon.brewer.nz
You know what though? We get rounded corners now.

ROUNDED CORNERS. WOW.
January 29, 2026 at 12:44 AM
One of several ways the new Xero UI is worse is that it takes up more space while displaying information in a clumsier, harder to read way.
January 29, 2026 at 12:43 AM
If the Synology is ~10 years old, get a new Synology. The CPUs in newer models are much faster and the user experience better as a result. Some newer models also can take extra memory, nvme ssd for caching, can run Docker containers, all sorts of cool things the older ones didn't do.
January 28, 2026 at 10:11 PM
I think we all need to consider how we handle the day a belligerent government captures ICANN. And maybe we need to start working on that alt-ICANN sooner rather than later.
January 26, 2026 at 12:03 AM
I have friends from school who work in hospitals in America. One's a trauma nurse in RGV Texas & gunshot wounds are a daily thing. That's a whole lot of nope. How does America even function now.
January 25, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Reposted by Jonathan Brewer
DNS request traffic to @cloudflare.social 1.1.1.1 resolver has also seen a significant increase, with growth starting on 17-Jan and exceeding pre-shutdown levels the next day. TXT record queries have grown to be the majority of the request traffic.
radar.cloudflare.com/dns/ir?dateR...
January 22, 2026 at 2:00 PM
I think it's ok to be thankful for one less psychotic nazi in the world. Even if they were a nice little boy once.
January 22, 2026 at 5:04 AM
Honestly Union Station just isn't that nice. Passengers better off not going there.
January 20, 2026 at 6:48 AM