justin․searls․co

Down for everyone because of me?

Just signed up for bandsintown to look for live concerts during my next Japan trip. I created my account using Sign in With Apple and the site immediately started behaving weirdly. Then I opened my devtools and it was spewing an unbelievable number of XHR errors. Within 90 seconds the entire site was down. It didn't come back for about 5 minutes.

I have are a very particular set of skills.

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