“We had our differences. Mostly CORS. But we made it work.”
Will remember the 500s… and the 200s we didn’t deserve.
Service Retirement Notice
R.I.P. chkr.com.au
After years of loyal service, chkr.com.au has finally been laid to rest.
🪦
R.I.P.
chkr.com.au
2020 — 2025 · Age: 5 glorious years
It didn’t always return 200, but it always tried.
Cause of death: Simply not required anymore.
Memorialised in git tag: v1-chkr.com.au-finally-dead
Flowers may be replaced with well-structured pull requests.
In Loving Memory Of
chkr.com.au faithfully served:
2 production apps
∞ debug logs
7 forgotten cron jobs
1 panicked 3am hotfix
That one Bash script nobody understands
Career Highlights
- 2020 Launched with great optimism and exactly zero unit tests.
- 2022 Survived a complete database migration purely out of stubbornness.
- 2023 Officially “temporary” until a “proper rewrite” could be done. It only took two more years.
- 2025 Gracefully retired before it could learn about AI-generated stack traces.
Last Known Stack Trace
Unexpectedly expected error while handling unexpected success.
Translation: it worked, but nobody is quite sure why.
Survived By
“PagerDuty sleeps better now. Probably.”
Upgraded from firefighting to mild supervision.
“I was still using that undocumented endpoint.”
We are… so sorry. Please migrate responsibly.
Migration Info
chkr.com.au has been switched off. Please update your DNS, scripts, and extremely useless apps.
Any remaining calls to the old chkr.com.au will be redirected with kindness and a firm reminder that all good services must one day return 410.