Tell HN: Thanks to thehodge and littlewarden.com, this site is up today
A few days ago we got an email from HN user thehodge (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;user?id=thehodge" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;user?id=thehodge</a>), aka Dom Hodgson, telling us that HN&#x27;s SSL cert was about to expire—as indeed it was. All the renewal notices had been going to Scott&#x27;s old YC email, which no longer works.<p>Dom runs <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;littlewarden.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;littlewarden.com&#x2F;</a>, which monitors sites for upcoming issues and lets you know when you&#x27;re about to publicly embarrass yourself. In a twist on eat-your-own-dog-food (eat someone else&#x27;s dog food as a service?), he had set up alerts for HN in their system. Lo and behold, it delivered the goods, and that is why you&#x27;re reading HN as usual today instead of certificate scoldings, and therefore also why my ass is in a saved state, which is how I like it.<p>I figure the least we can do is proclaim our thanks, so all hail Dom and Little Warden! Yes, I know most of you can do this in 3 lines of Python and a cron job, and yes yes, there are other alert services—but only one has personally helped you waste time unimpeded on the internet. That is all.