How my side project got banned from the internet
Friday evening is a great time for tinkering with a side project after a long week. You pour some tea, open your laptop and navigate to your project, only to find a red banner across whole app placed by the browser saying “Deceptive site ahead”. This happened with Engramma, my tool for editing JSON with design tokens. No phishing, no malware, only anonymous analytics. What Is Engramma? I built Engramma to explore better approaches for design systems and improves the experience of working with them. It’s very much a work in progress with only a handful of users, so this warning felt especially surreal. It made me wonder, how damaging would it be for an active business? A few hours of downtime costs real money. For me it costed only time. Fighting False Positives Google (2h) As the…
