Chris Garrett Chris Garrett


35/M/UK

I'm Chris Garrett, a founder and entrepreneurial technologist working at the intersection of design and engineering.

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I help startups and established brands develop new digital products through my venture studio, C8VA, which specialises in early-stage product development and rapid prototyping.


Virgin Media's breaking my website

My friend Phil messaged me last night saying he was getting an ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR trying to hit up Macc.xyz. Someone showed me the same thing last week at the meetup, and tbh it had me baffled. After some digging (and some curling), we worked out the domain was resolving to 81.99.162.48 for him - not the usual Vercel IPs - which led me to this post on Reddit.

Virgin Media - the unwanted policemen of the web. Seems they’ve applied a default block to .xyz domains.