How WebMD ran in the year 2000 (Ship It! #103)

All of the health anxiety of early internet adopters traced back to WebMD’s self diagnosis. Some sysadmin’s on-call nightmares came from a different part of the site.

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Featuring:

• Rich Burroughs – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Links of the week

• The Cloud Under the Sea
• UK introduces first IoT security laws

Interview

• Rich Burroughs on Bluesky and LinkedIn

Continuous Conversation

• Hey moved CI to dev machines with a bash script

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!