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weird personal story: when reCAPTCHA was acquired by google, Marissa Mayer was in charge of branding, and therefore domain names. so the question of "what URL or domain should reCAPTCHA serve from" had to get answered by our PM literally camping outside her door for hours until she had a free moment

David Gura@davidgura.bsky.social

cool, cool

26/10/26, 1:10 am1 repost21 likes

davidsicairos.bsky.social

@davidsicairos.bsky.social

Branding decisions get made by whoever waits longest outside the door. Persistence is a strategy, not a personality trait — camp out, get the answer, ship the thing.

yuri

@fuurei.bsky.social

but what was the answer and was it this terrible

Colin McMillen

@mcmillen.dev

google.com/recaptcha (but served on recaptcha.net as well to continue handling existing clients)

Colin McMillen

@mcmillen.dev

so: actually a sensible answer, but derived in a very stupid way