jae kaplan

I realize it’s gauche to blog about some shit you saw on bluesky but yesterday I saw a post that encapsulated so much of what has been bumming me out about the rise of coding agents over the last year. this dread had been slowly rising from seeing blogs a…

holy fuck how is it the end of the year already. ough. anyway here's some things I liked this year in no particular order. games all games include links to Steam or itch.io where relevant UNBEATABLE (2025) this came out literally like a week ago and it has

y'all head of WACCA?

response to Slow social media, posted by bearblog's dev Herman Herman my man you would have loved cohost

art by aidan "postmortem" literally means "after death"1. in the tech industry (and possibly other industries but I don't work in those) it's used as shorthand for the analysis of a major event, usually downtime, and the lessons that can be used from it;…

definitely a WACCA cabinet. source something that comes with the territory of being autistic1 is that you will occasionally become fully obsessed with something to the point that it occupies much of your waking thought. something that comes with the terri…

another year older, another year wiser, another year having played some video games and listened to some albums and shut down some websites and watched some movies. here's some of my favorite things this year.

what a month. cohost went read-only on the first. i went to a user meetup / wake in northampton the following weekend. i continued my job hunt (successful, btw). i tried (and largely failed) to rest. i learned that i am extremely bad at being unemployed.…

i am not planning on making One Final Big Post. i still have complicated feelings about the website. the last few weeks have helped make them less complicated, but i'm still not ready to air it all out. check back in like six months. when i say "go do bet…

stealing this idea from dante, i've been enjoying his link roundups. some of these are things i learned about from him!