Since October 31st 2023 I've been providing a
work environment email service called 666a. On March 31st
2025 it's shutting down. Today I'm beginning the process of winding it down
gently, and I wanted to post something explaining that process and why it's
happening.
Over on 666a I provide
English translations of Swedish labour laws. For
the most part these are based on some translated PDFs that the Swedish
government sometimes publish. The government update the laws more frequently
than they update the translations though. Providing an up to date resource here
meant updating the translations myself, which is a challenging problem.
So apparently 666a is still capable of surprising me. A few
months ago I wrote about the work I'd done to address an issue I've been calling
“document lag”. Since then, I've continued to
keep a constant eye on the system's reliability. This week, something new
cropped up.