Eddy Luten

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..

Not sure if this is asking for too much of a toga lift, but since Creel is president in both Wanderers/Wayward and Staircase, do they share the same universe or more of a parallel one?

Either way, I just finished reading it and loved it!

@chuckwendig.bsky.social I’m getting some powerful Randall Flagg vibes from this Eddie Naberius guy in The Staircase in the Woods…

🫩

Unhinged af

Yup, I totally get it. DS9 is still my favorite Trek and I really didn’t care much for Voyager when it aired. But I have to say that I was sad it was over when I got to the end of my latest rewatch.

I ordered a backup Pilot Vanishing Point since my current one is nearing 10 years old and looking a bit worn out. I guess I'm feeling a bit sentimental about that specific fountain pen..? What a workhorse, though. I haven't looked back at any of my other FPs ever since I switched to this one.

Have you warmed up to Voyager yet?

ICE press release: Johnny Noviello, a 49 year old Canadian, has died in the custody of ICE. The cause of death is under investigation.

A 49 year old Canadian has died while in ICE custody.

a tissue on a tray with a bunch of pictures and phrases and about food. but it seemingly contains a bunch of errors and nonsense: “Doltclous” “A full suamsh makes for you a happy heram” “bood food is bood mood”

AI in the wild? This tray tissue I was given at a restaurant is full of errors and hallucinations…!

I hope Chris Perkins comes back as a figurehead in the community, not just a writer in the background. Watching him run his games is what got me into TTRPG.

Also, fuck Hasbro for allowing all this shit to happen.

Constitutional universal healthcare (including mental, dental, physical, specialist, etc.) and a basic living income.

Almost 1/4 of all homeless are elderly and the ratio is growing. Many more are mentally ill. We should not have a system that allows this to happen.

What a fucking week.

but dang, changing this theme to a monthly/yearly subscription (without a lifetime one-time purchase, which i'd gladly pay and have for every other platform) and then hijacking the existing plugin which worked for a few years and slipping this in, as a forced update... feels in poor taste.

wdyt?

Deep Space Nine scene. Jadzia Dax and Dr. Bashir are in their blue uniforms sitting in the operations center. Bashir is gazing lovingly at Dax. Dax is looking at something else entirely not named Bashir. Closed caption reads, "Men are far too emotional to be leaders."