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.