Huh, that’s weird. You would think that business had pretty good returns, given that registrars have famously high markup when selling domains.

Currently I just deal with the banners (as annoying as they are) and shed a tear at the state of the modern internet.

In case you didn’t know, the “I don’t care about cookies” extension was recently sold to Avast. I don’t know if anyone has seen them make any sketchy changes yet, but personally I didn’t want to trust them and uninstalled it

Really I would consider myself both, but to answer the question you’re actually asking Professional.

I’ve known that software development was what I wanted to do since early in high school, programming has been a large part of my life since then.

I’m working on Ruby on Rails stuff these days, but Python is my true love. I also have a goofy website that I enjoy hacking on.

archive.org link to get around paywall.

I like it so far. The tech seems good, it’s not that hard to wrap your head around the federated aspect, but as always the life and death of a platform like this is in the community. If a decent amount of people decide to come to Lemmy, I think it will be great.

I like to start out any new language with an implementation of Conway’s Game of Life. It’s relatively simple, but tends to exercise a decent bit of the language.

I use kagi. It’s pretty nice, though it’s not free.