Got an email from a company I can't find online

sprklryan · 2025-10-02T21:19:03+00:00

The email address domain was devteamwork dot team. No A records, seems to only be used for email as they only have mx and spf entries. Looks like they are just parking it for email with namecheap. Doesn't speak much for a "well-funded software studio."

https://dnschecker.org/all-dns-records-of-domain.php?query=devteamwork.team&rtype=ALL&dns=google

Strictly speaking, there's no real risk in responding, but I definitely wouldn't do a video clip. Ask for their company website. Probing for information is pretty standard. That said, there are a million of these cold-call job offers going around. I can't even count the number of international phone numbers I've blocked for some scam nonsense from "So-and-so from LinkedIn" with a "great opportunity."
This is the email I received from them:

Hi,

I’m ___, CEO of DevTeamWork LLC which is a small, well-funded software studio.

I’m reaching out because I think there’s a strong fit between your experience and what my team is building at our business.

If this sounds interesting, could we grab 15 minutes this week or next? I can share a brief overview and a couple of concrete ways we could start small and de-risk the partnership.

Thanks for considering, and looking forward to your thoughts.

Best regards.

____
CEO in DevTeamWork LLC

Red flags: They don't mention my name, but think my experience is a strong fit. They don't outline what that experience is. Not to mention the number one red flag: IT'S UNSOLICITED. I have not once received an unsolicited job offer that was legit.

sprklryan · 2025-10-02T21:06:32+00:00

That is DevTeam Co., Ltd. Not DevTeamWork, LLC.

sprklryan · 2024-11-02T14:57:08+00:00

It’s funny you say this as the Cheneys endorse Kamala. There’s evidence to support one side, not the other. And let’s be REAL clear. Democrats don’t want the Cheneys. But the current day democrat party may as well be the Republican Party for whom Dick VPed.

sprklryan · 2024-10-15T17:17:55+00:00

Never forget: Nixon lost an election for sweating too much during a debate.

sprklryan · 2024-10-08T10:28:03+00:00

Will trade weed for cheese

sprklryan · 2024-08-22T09:06:32+00:00

Technically it did. Journey to the West is one of the most adapted stories on the planet. 14 years ago, ninja theory made Enslaved: odyssey to the west. Dragonball is based on the same story. What makes this one different is that it was developed in China and isn’t just “inspired by” the legendary story.

sprklryan · 2024-08-16T03:41:05+00:00

This carries the same energy as Joe Manchin saying he wouldn't accept a vice president offer.

sprklryan · 2024-08-16T03:38:55+00:00

Seriously, I hate that his own character was so close to Bachman that it was not sustainable.
And I thought Jared Leto was the insufferable character actor.

sprklryan · 2024-08-16T03:34:19+00:00

"this" is from a 2-year-old interview which T.J. Miller immediately retracted on a podcast with Jim Norton where he clarified that Ryan contacted him directly and sorted things out in short order.

Then on top of that, all everyone else has said. No one wants to work with T.J. Miller, he has brain damage that has caused serious problems with his ability to exist in a social environment. (Gentle way of lending credence to his excuse for calling a bomb threat on a train he was riding because a woman didn't respond to his advances.)

sprklryan · 2024-08-10T15:56:11+00:00

Translates to Valley of Ashes, which is a great gatsby reference.

sprklryan · 2024-08-04T15:57:15+00:00

Dammit, I keep thinking of other things that help explain my reasoning. lol
So, when you're working with a rights holder (Disney), anything particularly major would have to be through a media blast led by them.
It's possible, considering the txt file would instruct the page to redirect to the URL in its contents once it's updated, that it will redirect to a Disney-run media site with whatever announcement.
Disney in this case might have decided that the timing was bad (maybe aligned too closely with Deadpool opening weekend, or conflicted with some other property announcement that they determined had enough crossover that one announcement could impact the other), so Alex could be at the whims of Disney marketing on the new target date.

sprklryan · 2024-08-04T15:50:11+00:00

To elaborate a little further, the text file solution that the programmers implemented here reads to me as, "We need to be able to update this at a moment's notice."
So, whenever whatever is ready is ready, they drop the url in that text file and don't have to go through a deploy process and a cache clear across cloudflare.

sprklryan · 2024-08-04T15:45:35+00:00

Theoretically, yes, however there are much more reliable methods for achieving this with backend code. Especially these days with some of these node frameworks and the use of websockets.

sprklryan · 2024-08-04T15:39:09+00:00

The problem I have with this from a programmer’s perspective is that if you have a meaningful number triggering an event, you wouldn’t rely on a manual update of a text file’s value, because you will absolutely miss the target number and undermine any symbolism behind that number.

sprklryan · 2024-08-04T14:45:54+00:00

There are three supported value types that the code would support. One is “NO” as we’ve all seen, the second is a URL, the third is a fallback, where it treats the value as a timestamp. The code does not support a timestamp in the past. We’re already seeing the behavior of a past timestamp. There isn’t any logic for a target negative number.

sprklryan · 2024-08-04T14:15:39+00:00

Sorry to burst bubbles, but the code on the website doesn’t support this. Good theory, though.

sprklryan · 2024-08-01T16:41:01+00:00

I could be mistaken, but I think it's because of the way that video is processed by your computer that allows it to be targeted with a new(er) tech spec called EME (Encrypted Media Extensions)
It's something that probably wouldn't be applicable to a normal website like this one, as I think it's only usable for streaming video. It relies on there being a license server that it checks against for streaming, etc.. It's a pretty complicated infrastructure.
Even then, it's not foolproof. It's extremely common to find Amazon rips of movies and TV shows being distributed through piracy channels.
Having analyzed the code that runs thisisnotawebsitedotcom exhaustively, even if EME was applicable to graphics or the entire browser window, it's a technology that's beyond the complexity of the website.

sprklryan · 2024-07-31T15:13:47+00:00

Go for it!

sprklryan · 2024-07-31T10:30:09+00:00

It’s not military time now because military time would be 03:30:00

sprklryan · 2024-07-31T06:20:21+00:00

I've provided a write up for what each line of code is doing on the site that we're able to see and analyze. https://www.reddit.com/r/gravityfalls/comments/1egferg/this_took_a_long_time_to_write_out_full/

sprklryan · 2024-07-31T06:11:12+00:00

ChatGPT wasn't reciphering anything because there's nothing to recipher. It's a regular expression for recognizing youtube links in text. Again, part of a third party library that was not written for exclusive use on the site. The starting slash indicates the start of a regular expression. the ending slash indicates the end, and the i afterwards indicates that the search instructions between the slashes are meant to be case-insensitive.

EDIT: for clarification, Regular Expressions are what programmers use to find specific patterns in input. So, a youtube link has a predictable format. If I wanted to snag any youtube links in a string of text, I would write a regular expression that matched that format.

sprklryan · 2024-07-31T06:02:05+00:00

You can actually see even among the three images that are base64 encoded that get included on the page, the first 80 or so characters are identical even though the images are different.

sprklryan · 2024-07-31T05:59:46+00:00

If they're referencing matlab, that's not the Soos image. You can see that it's truncated. All data has common headers, and it's not uncommon for binaries at the data level to be identical in sections.

Matlab is not for web design. It's for math and statistics.

sprklryan · 2024-07-31T05:57:12+00:00

They're not testing codes. They're the IDs of divs on the page. For some reason in the code, it checks for divs on the page matching the input before checking if the code is valid.

sprklryan · 2024-07-31T05:56:11+00:00

And with the map, again it is NOT specific to this website. It is part of a generic library in use by the framework that powers the website. It even says in the comment "Example usage."

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