Talking to myself - there's an app for that

So while walking the other day, I noticied the audio in my headphones got quiet all of a sudden. No incoming calls or butt-pressing any buttons. I was talking out loud to myself. My AirPods thought I was talking to someone else, so they turned down the volume, which is a handy feature. It just never dawned on me that it would also clock how frequently I talk out loud to myself. Turns out that it’s quite a bit. Haha.

And I’m not going to change.

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The motivations:

  1. I’ve always loved the Show HN projects that people built on a whim over a weekend. So it’s been a bucket list item for me, but I had no muse yet…

  2. I was watching NOVA a few nights ago and learned about how Saturn pulled Jupiter away from the inner solar system. The thought has been brewing in me for a while on just how many things conspired to have everything work out for us to be here. So I was thankful to Saturn…and then on a whim, late at night, I typed this in ChatGPT:

Yeah. I did it. I bought the longest domain I could.

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I learned something in the process: there is an upper limit to the number of characters in a domain name. And not just the domain, but each ‘label’ as they are called, being either subdomain, domain, or top level domain (TLD).

63 characters.

I think I broke half of the domain registrars when trying to buy it.