- ...make a Hugo theme from scratch
- ...build a hit counter for SSGs
- Wasn't I working on a game?

ffs

Somehow, my process over these last few weeks:

- I'm gonna work on this game idea
- I should abstract the high-level stuff in a lib
- ...write a blog post about it
- ...get my blog off GitHub
- ...migrate my public projects off GitHub
- ...run my own CI box
- ...migrate my blog to Hugo

awesome! do you apply a filter or is it a busted sensor?

Bit of a late response, but this was the reason they gave me for the suspension :/

Oh, one final addition: If you auto-generate a position-targeted resume, which doesn't match your LinkedIn or portfolio, you're not doing yourself any favors either.

Finally, just to reiterate: don't use LLMs. If you wonder why you never hear back from your hundreds of automatically-sent applications, it's because low effort yields low rewards.

Apply to the jobs that actually speak to you and match your skills and interests. The rest is meaningless.

The "why are you interested in this role" questions aren't filler. Be honest. Talk about yourself, not LLM slop about why "this company sits at the intersection of blah blah blah."

Remember that there's a real human person on the other end looking for a real human teammate.

Make sure your application matches your resume and LinkedIn. If you answer all my screening questions correctly, but have no matching experience, red flags pop up.

Know when *not* to apply to a role. If you need Claude, ChatGPT, or an LLM agent to fill out an application, the role probably isn't for you, and you'll likely fail the screening process, wasting not only your time but others'.

Unsolicited advice from someone who's gone through hundreds of applications:

Don't use LLMs to fill out your application. You're submitting the same answers as everyone else, and it's obvious. You *won't* stand out, no matter how perfect the answer. I know it's more work, but be yourself.

Day 4 of sourcehut getting DDOSed into uselessness :(

This time, builds are affected.

Without a reply to my ticket or any other kind of communication, my access was restored sometime today. No idea what has happened.

I hope you get your situation sorted out, but I'm definitely mirroring my stuff on Codeberg and sr.ht as of yesterday!

The story of my Github suspension, a thread 🧵.
This is also a plea for help, if you have any advice or can otherwise put me in touch with someone who can have this looked at inside @github.com.

Last Sunday 29th March, I was working away in vscode in one of my side projects.

If you find out, please let me know! I am experiencing the exact same things, although I still have access to my account. I have *no* ideas what I could have done, but I guess I'll start backing up all my repos tonight.

Quake III Arena RTX Remix Mod - Version 0.6 (Update 3, GDC 2026) #nvidia #gdc2026 #geforce YouTube video by PolyPlayBox

In my memories, this is what Quake 3 always looked like <3

It's like watching a Let's Play, but morally bankrupt and resource-devouring.

Added to wishlist! Am I seeing things, or is this environment a small ringworld?

Overall, ditching MS seems doable if I give myself the time. But unlike my shift from Google/Gmail/GDrive, this will involve replacing a lot of deeply ingrained muscle memory.

.NET: Although I don't use dotnet professionally anymore, I still use it for gamedev with MonoGame and Raylib. However, I've been replacing it more and more with Godot, which will likely be the direction I continue in. Or maybe I'll just use Raylib with other languages.

VS Code: I think it will be painful to switch away from it, having used Atom and subsequently VS Code for over a decade now, but there's always Emacs and Neovim. Zed looks like a potential option, but I'm worried about the overly heavy focus on AI junk.

GitHub: this will take a while to shift away from due to the amount of repos, but I'm moving my shit to sr.ht/~eddy/, including openglbook.com and my MkDocs plugins. GitHub was a huge part of my career, but let's be real, its soul has been missing for a while now.

Windows: if a game doesn't run on Linux because of a rootkit, I probably shouldn't play it anyway. I've been begrudgingly dual-booting into Windows 10 for a few years *just* to play games, wasting a precious NVME drive. As of this weekend, I've nuked that drive and allowed btrft to eat it up.

...and it's been disappointing to see the direction MS has taken since, especially very recently. I hope the good folks working on C# and open source .NET stuff can somehow detach themselves from this rotting, bloated corpse, but I doubt it.

These are the specific things I'm ditching or replacing:

After mostly un-Google-ing in 2025, 2026 is the year of un-Microsoft-ing my life.

I spent the first part of my career developing .NET and Visual C++ applications and was an honest-to-god paying MSDN member and event attendee. I actually quite liked their dev ecosystem up to about 10 years ago...

Nah, sounds about right

Where are my Silicon Graphics adults at?

The Books of 2025 This year I read a surprising (to me) amount of books: 21 according to my notes, 6 more than last year. Here they are, listed chronologically in reading order. I’ll also list my favorite reads towards...

The books I read in 2025. Most were great, some not so much.

I do have a copy of that queued up. Should I read The Book of Accidents first?

I’ll add it to the to-read pile! Thanks!

Screenshot of GPS map, with current location on 1-10 near El Paso, Texas

Oh wow. Lanes on I-10 narrowed suddenly, forcing ALL drivers to exit at a weigh station.

A makeshift checkpoint—digital sign read: “Have Passport Ready”

1 of like 12 ICE agents, all standing around—in full military gear—ordered me to open my window:

“You a U.S. citizen?”
“Uh yes” then let me go..