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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-10

shorn Makes Your Validator the Wire Format

shorn.dev ↗ · Developer Corner · score 79.0
Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

A drop-in binary serializer that uses existing Zod, Valibot, or ArkType validators as its schema.

Why it surfaced

shorn’s central proposition is unusually crisp: keep the validator you already have and use it directly with encode and decode, without a separate wire schema, schema file, or code generation step. Its homepage includes a live browser demo and compares a sample record against Avro, SchemaPack, Protobuf, msgpackr, and JSON.

Ham Is Specifically Discouraged

August 10’s newborn domains include a mock cryptid council that specifically discourages ham, a vintage phone collecting messages for Twyla’s 70th, a 4.5-meter dish measuring Galactic hydrogen at 1420 MHz, and an open index that found 530 sites permitting GPTBot in robots.txt while refusing it at the server.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-10 Domain Arrivals issue.