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I've found and written about a whole bunch of Can I …? tools but it looks like either I fumbled something or Mastodon choked on the huge post. So I’m just letting you know about it.

Check it out. There are quite a few cool tools in there.

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Some stats:
• Do not resolve: 2044 (~12%)
• Landing pages: 5671 (~34%)
• Other failures: 4275 (~26%)
• Good sites: 4484 (~27%)

First, my “good site" detection is not exactly precise. There are a lot of landing pages and otherwise unhelpful pages that I was just too lazy to filter out. So we get below 1/4 of live domains with proper sites. Everything else is taken but not used.

Second, in this research I’ve seen a lot of weed. Apparently, “canibis” is a common misspelling, or something. I also saw more cannibals than I expected. Not literal cannibals but the word used in domain names. And many many dogs. Sooooo many dogs.

And third, this is not an exhaustive list. There are much more but I decided they're not interesting for one reason or another. For example, I excluded obviously commercial services. Like the ones actively selling stuff. I also excluded blog-style sites. They might be interesting to some but they don’t look or work like a tool.

And last. I want to highlight this little site: Can I Have That Recipe?. It's a blog-like site. It's design is from 2006 but it's still being updated! I saw a recipe from 2022. Just look how refreshingly to-the-point it is! I hope Beth and Dan are doing well.

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Can I …?

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We all know and love Can I Use? And over the years I stumbled upon a few other useful tools with a Can I …? type of name. So I decided to see what's out there.

So I downloaded all* zone files from ICANN, as one does. Found all the domains that start with cani and here's what I found.

* Well, not exactly all. Some GTLD admins are a bit cagy or require too much data to get access. But I've got all the popular ones and then some.

— Humorous, sarcastic

Let's start with simpler ones. These are humorous or satirical. They're often completely static, too.

• Can I Trust Google?
• Can I Teach English?
• Can I Poo?
• Can I Shit Now?
• Can I Have a Pass? — I don't know who JR is but they seem to be unable to have a pass.
• Can I Go Visit Puerto Rico?
• Can I Fuck My Phone Yet? — I assume it's a static page and doesn't really track this specific event.
• https://canideploy.today/
• Can I Use a Purchased Email List?
• Can I Buy Your Username? — <rant> OK, let me tell you that I'm thoroughly unimpressed with this one. It's 3 characters with 2 colors. But it's built in Dart/Flutter and weights 2.5 MB. This page could've been smaller than this rant. </rant>
• Can I Have a Cappuccino?
• Can I Have Some Coffee?
• Can I @eldon?
• Can I Afford a Porsche?
• Can I Do It?
• Can I be a Developer?
• Can I Redeploy?
• Can I Stop Working?
• Can I Wear Yellow?

— Simple tools

These are simple tools that require very few inputs (sometimes none at all) and give a simple (or static) answer but are actually useful.

• CanITrack.online — check your browser fingerprint.
• Can I has :has?
• Can I Reach the Net? — if it loads, you can. Simple
• Can I Enjoy It? — tells you whether a product is made by a company with ties to Israel.
• Can I Dodge? — TBH, I don't know what this is. If you know, please tell me so I could update this post.
• Can I Discuss Pay?
• Can I Upgrade to Big Sur Today? — I'm not sure if this still works as expected.
• Can I Trust the Bible? — research of accuracy of different versions the Bible.
• Can I Still Win? — some sort of tournament outcome prediction but I don't know which one.
• Can I Snack? — spaced repetition for snacks.
• Can I Force You to Meditate? — introduction to meditation for those who like a challenge.
• Can I Dig to China? — actually, it's Where can I dig to from my backyard?
• Can I Put My Tree Up? — dates are hard. This one helps answering this specific question without having to consult a calendar.
• Can I call? — time zones are even harder than dates. This will tell you if it's an OK time for a call elsewhere on the planed.
• Can I Bring Wine? and Can I Bring Wine to the Bowl? — tells you if you can bring wine to the Hollywood Bowl on any specific date. Or maybe it's just whether there's a show there on that date, I don't know.
• Can I Blame It on Solarflares?
• Can I be Loud?
• Can I #ballotselfie? — this is for USA only. Apparently, every state has its own rules about ballot photos.
• Can I Afford? — the basics of financial responsibility.

—— Outdoorsy tools

• Can I Ride? - tells you if canyons around Salt Lake City (USA) are open for bikes.
• Can I Kayak? - tells if Harpeth River (Bellevue, Tn, USA) is good for kayaking.
• Can I Get Under the Bridge? — it's unclear which bridge.
• Can I Bike Today? — again, unclear where but seems like somewhere in the USA.
• Can I BBQ? — activity-specific weather forecast.

— Advanced tools

These are tools that either require a lot of input, or provide more complex or exhaustive information.

—— Dev tools

• Can I Use …? — of course.
• Can I Email …? — Can I Use for email.
• Can I WebView …? — Can I Use for WebViews.
• Can I Animate …? — what CSS properties can be animated.
• Can I Video? — tells you what video/audio formats/codecs are supported by your browser.
• Can I Watch Video? — despite the name give you much more information about features supported by your browser.
• Can I use: Notify — this app will notify you when a specific feature becomes available in specific browsers.
• Can I Stop? — I guess, this tells you whether you can stop supporting a specific browser.
• CanIA11y.com — this redirect to Accessibility Support but I'll allow it because domain starts with Can I and it's a cool tool.
• Can I read It? — how readable is your text?
• Can I DevTools? — what features are available in different browsers' Dev Tools.
• Can I PHP? — Can I Use for PHP features.
• Can I Use Node? — API compatibility table for different JS runtimes.
• Can I Depend on X Already? — compatibility tables for libraries and interpreters on Linux distributions. No Gentoo, though.
• Can I Log4j? — log4j exploitability index.

—— Outdoors

• Can I Use a Hammock? — the tool to achieve maximum comfort.
• Can I Keep This Disc I Found? — I think this might be applicable to other stuff you find out there.
• Can I Have UKARA? — imitation firearms are regulated in the UK so require permits for airsoft matches.
• Can I Fly a Kite? — activity-specific weather forecast.
• Can I Fly? — planes are outdoors, right?

—— TV

• Can I Skip It? — this is a neat idea. It tells you which episodes are essential and which you can skip in a show. Unfortunately, it only has a guide for X-Files. I guess, they don't film show the way they used to any more.
• Can I Has a Show plz? — give it three shows you like and it will recommend you another.
• Can I Binge? — tv show binge calculator.

—— Games

• Can It Run Doom? — technically it's not Can I but it's too cool to skip. It's an extensive database of Doom running on things that are not a first-choice platform. There are challenges, too.
• Can It Game? — a big database of PC with a gaming slant.
• Can I Host a Minecraft Server? —probably outdated.
• Can I Play Ingress After 27 May? — checks if your phone can run Ingress.
• Can I Hit This? — DnD attack calculator. Initiative tracker as a bonus.
• Can I Win? — holdem poker odds calculator.

—— Cars

• Can I Tow This? — towing calculator. I don't understand anything here but it seem like it might be USA-specific.
• Can I Afford a Car? — car calculator.
• Can I Afford? — can you afford a luxury vehicle like a Tesla Model Y or Porsche 911?

—— Other tools

• Can I Text 911? — this is for the USA.
• Can I Tell My Boss to Fuck Off? and Can I Tell My Boss to Shove It? — these are basically the same. FIRE calculator, I guess.
• Can I Take This Class? — predict your chances of getting the classes you want at UIUC. Works (only) at every four year university in Champaign-Urbana, IL, USA.
• Can I Have Another Beer? — shows you closest bars on a map.
• Can I Compost It? — apparently composting is not as simple as one might think.
• Can I Airfry It? — airfying is at least as complex as composting.
• Can I be Yours ❤️? — generalisation of relationship establishment. Now you are not confined by the limitations of Tinder. With this you can find a boyfriend, a girlfriend, or even an enemy.
• Can I Send You an Email? — social networking the old school way.
• Can I be pwned? — no affiliataion to Have I been pwned?. Not sure how trustworthy this is.
• Can I Secure …? — a bunch of guide on how to be secure on the internet.
• Can I Publish This? — helps figuring out whether you can get in trouble for publishing stuff. USA-centric.
• Can I Jailbreak? — a succinct guide to iOS jailbreaking. A bit outdated.
• Can I Automate? — PC part picker for smart home stuff.

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