We have difficult news… another experiment has joined the great Catena graveyard in the cloud. It served bravely, broke occasionally, and taught us plenty.
Killed about 1 month ago, Two promising attempts to go loco in Mexico and Brazil. They fought the good fight, but ultimately, they were told, "¡Ándale! It's time to become redirects." It was about 1 year old.
Killed almost 2 years ago, An attempt to centralize multiple websites on a single AWS instance using EFS for shared storage — ultimately abandoned due to performance bottlenecks and deployment complexity. It was almost 6 years old.
Killed about 2 years ago, An ambitious attempt to let AI do the writing for us — turns out, it wasn’t quite as mezmer-izing as we hoped. It was over 2 years old.
Killed about 2 years ago, Dataskrive was the core technology powering the ambitious Mezmer AI Project. It turned out the AI's creativity at the time wasn't quite as captivating as planned, which led to their service discontinuing with the project. It was over 2 years old.