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Welcome to yet another edition of WTF Happened, a monthly recap of news from a variety of topics and sources with some personal reflection on recent events. The whole reason this exists is we didn't want to have to ask AI for event recaps in the future. Everything is hand-researched and hand-written... or at least typed with a mouse and keyboard. I want to first apologize for the delay of this…
Welcome to the April 2026 edition of WTF Happened! This is a recap of the highlights of the month of April in the year of our lord Gaben, 2026. These recap articles cover world news, tech news, a little U.S. politics with a sprinkle of non-U.S. politics and a bunch of other stuff with the goal of highlighting the biggest news of the month! The general goal is to give you highlights for the month…
This is the WTF Happened recap article for March 2026! This is a retrospective series, so every post is technically late, but we do these articles for the sake of being able to go back and remind ourselves what was going on each month. It's nice to be able to easily get a bunch of highlights from a specific month without having to ask an AI for a summary based on every news article out there. Our…
There was recently a movement to "Stop Killing Games", and I'd like us to consider expanding that movement to software. Let's stop killing software in general! Adobe is guilty of killing Flash Player, but thankfully, we had enough open source tech out there to replace it and keep the old content alive with less officially supported alternative players like Ruffle. Then, there's Unity and their web…