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so Stop Killing Games is actually getting somewhere. for those who don’t know, it’s the movement that started because Ubisoft killed The Crew—a game you could only play online, so when they shut down the servers, the game literally stopped existing for everyone who bought it. what’s happening Stop Killing Games got invited to present at the European Parliament on April 16th. that’s a big deal. they’re going to explain their position to EU lawmakers, and apparently there’s already a lot of support from parliament members. ...
so cloudflare dropped a new CMS today called EmDash. their blog post calls it “the spiritual successor to WordPress.” it’s april 1st, which is suspicious, but apparently it’s real. let me break down what they’re announcing. what is it EmDash is a new open source CMS written in TypeScript, powered by Astro, and designed to run serverless on Cloudflare Workers. they say they rebuilt WordPress from scratch in two months using AI coding agents. MIT licensed, available on GitHub. ...
so today someone on twitter uploaded the source code in a zip. wild, right? let me break down what actually happened. how it went down Anthropic accidentally shipped “map” files with Claude Code. these map files are meant for debugging—they let you reverse-engineer minified code back to readable source. someone noticed this, extracted the source, and posted a zip containing about 1,884 files of TypeScript source code. what was in the leak ...
i just found out about YOLO Linux and i need to vent about how absolutely terrible it is. this isn’t a linux distro. this is a trojan horse wearing a tux. let me be crystal clear: YOLO Linux has removed the shell. the shell. you know, the fundamental core of what makes linux actually useful? gone. replaced with some corporate AI agent that you can’t control, configure, or bypass. this isn’t linux anymore. this is a subscription to a corporate overlord’s computational infrastructure that happens to boot. ...
i need to say something that’s probably going to make some people mad: firefox sucks. there, i said it. i know, i know. “but hey, firefox is the last hope for browser competition!” “but hey, mozilla is fighting for your privacy!” “but hey, chrome is literally google spyware!” yeah yeah i’ve heard it all. i used to say the same things. i was a firefox defender for years. but i’m done. ...
i finally got around to setting up a proper photo backup solution. keeping everything on google photos with their “unlimited storage” that they can revoke whenever they feel like it isn’t the smartest move. who would’ve thought. anyway, i went down the rabbit hole of self-hosted photo management and landed on two options that kept coming up everywhere: immich and ente photos. figured i’d share my thoughts. the basics immich is the classic self-hosted option. you run it on your own server, it backs up all your photos and videos, and you have complete control. no one else touches your data. simple concept, solid execution. it’s free and open source, though you’ll obviously need to pay for your own server. ...
openai is shutting down sora. the text-to-video app that was supposed to be the next big thing. i’m not even surprised. i remember when it launched. everyone was losing their minds. “wow, you can make videos from text prompts now!” and then… nobody really used it after the initial buzz wore off. i tried it once, made some dumb video of a cat dancing or something, thought it was cool for about five minutes, and then forgot about it completely. ...
i finally did it. i bought a macbook neo. the fancy new one that’s supposed to be apple’s budget laptop or whatever. $599, seemed reasonable. seemed. i got it in blush because why not. the colors are cute. i’ll give it that. it’s very light and thin and the keyboard actually feels pretty nice. apple did okay there. everyone said it was actually pretty decent for the price. “it’s not trying to be a pro machine,” they told me. “the battery lasts all day,” they said. “you’ll use it for emails and netflix and it’ll be fine,” they promised. ...
i used to be that developer. you know the one. the one with 47 vscode extensions installed, a custom vim config that takes 20 minutes to explain, and a terminal setup that looks like a space station control panel. i spent hours, maybe days, tweaking my development environment. i’d read blog posts about “ultimate vim config” or “vscode extensions you need in 2025” and immediately install everything. my dotfiles repo had over 5000 commits. i had keybindings for everything. i could navigate my terminal blindfolded. ...
you know what’s fun? updating your mac and having everything break. just absolutely nothing work. that’s my favorite. definitely not frustrating at all. so i updated to macos 26. which, by the way, why are we on 26 already? wasn’t macos 13 Ventura? time is fake and apple does what they want. anyway, i updated, and suddenly my dev environment was completely broken. nothing resolved. websites wouldn’t load. i thought my network was down. ...