Y2K Jr.?

There seemed to have been some sort of low-key Y2K-ish thing going on with WordPress and with Buttondown last night, the 28th of February. The post for this week’s Disquiet Junto project went live on Disquiet.com prematurely, after which I tried to set up the email newsletter to go out (the next day, as usual) but the interface wouldn’t allow such a thing: February 29 showed in the pulldown, but I couldn’t save the schedule setting. As a result, both the Disquiet post and the Buttondown email went live a few hours early (late on the 28th instead of early on the 29th — Pacific Time Zone, that is). In retrospect, it is sort of poetic that TinyLetter is being shut down by its parent company, MailChimp, on February 29th, as if it’s saying, “There are complexities behind the scenes, such as leap year, that require resources, the expense of which we can’t rationalize.” I’ll try to get the situation sorted over the course of the next four years, before the scenario potentially comes round again — clearly it’s not pressing. Also, this could all just be coincidence, or the technological equivalent of a bad hair day. And, I was pretty frazzled last night after a particularly long, and thankfully productive, stretch of writing.