# january (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 184 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover january. Page: Feed: --- ## [Walking Imitators: Part One](https://graceandgrowthblog.substack.com/p/walking-imitators-part-one) _2026-08-25 · Wynter Sturtevant III · Grace & Growth_ Preached @ Lake Don Pedro Baptist Church on May 10th, 2026 ## [Health Plans Priced 2027 ACA Rates Against a Rule the Court Just Paused. Q2 Earnings Made the Bet Harder to Defend](https://upwardgrowth.substack.com/p/health-plans-priced-2027-aca-rates) _2026-08-25 · Ryan Peterson · Upward Growth Substack_ What the paused NBPP rule, Q2 hospital and payor earnings, and a compressed Open Enrollment calendar mean for health plan 2027 ACA postures. ## [Infestation: Survivor Stories (2012 - 2016)](https://rip.so/infestation-survivor-stories.html) _2026-08-25 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ hammerpoint interactive put the war z on steam on 17 december 2012 and valve removed it two days later, because the store page described a game nobody had built yet. it came back in february 2013, changed its name in june to stay clear of paramount's lawyers, and went on selling. by january 2015 it had moved 2.8 million copies. the servers went off on 15 december 2016, and the game has now spent… ## [Jing (2007 - 2020)](https://rip.so/jing.html) _2026-08-24 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ jing was the free half of camtasia. it lived as a small yellow sun stuck to the edge of your screen, and when you pulled it out you could grab a still or up to five minutes of video, which went up to screencast.com and came back as a link on your clipboard. the video was a flash file. once adobe scheduled the end of flash, techsmith owned a product whose output no browser would agree to play.… ## [Serif PagePlus (1990 - 2019)](https://rip.so/pageplus.html) _2026-08-24 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ serif wrote pageplus in nottingham in 1990 and sold it for under a hundred pounds, at a moment when the professional alternative cost about as much as the computer you ran it on. for most of the nineties it was how a british parish newsletter or a school prospectus actually got laid out, and serif kept the pipeline full by giving old versions away for the price of an email address. version x9… ## [Vimperator (2007 - 2017)](https://rip.so/vimperator.html) _2026-08-24 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ vimperator turned firefox into a modal editor. the toolbars went away and a command line took their place at the bottom of the window, where you typed what you wanted the browser to do. martin stubenschrott started it in 2007 and the last release came out on 1 february 2017. firefox 57 shipped on 14 november that year with an extension system that had no way to touch the browser's own interface,… ## [NESticle (1997 - 1998)](https://rip.so/nesticle.html) _2026-08-24 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ icer addis released nesticle on 3 april 1997 and it was the first nes emulator that ran at full speed on the ordinary dos machines people already owned. five days after release somebody mounted his drive over the network and took the source code. he kept the project going for another year regardless, shipped the last dos build on 18 august 1998, then left emulation for a job writing games. it is… ## [Connectix Virtual Game Station (1999 - 2001)](https://rip.so/connectix-virtual-game-station.html) _2026-08-24 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ connectix put a playstation inside a macintosh for forty-nine dollars in january 1999, and sony sued three weeks later. the ninth circuit ruled in february 2000 that copying a console bios in order to build an emulator is fair use, which is the reason emulator authors still cite the case a quarter of a century on. sony then bought the product outright in march 2001 and let it stay on sale for… ## [Postbox (2008 - 2024)](https://rip.so/postbox.html) _2026-08-24 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ postbox was a paid desktop email client written by the mozilla developers who had been running thunderbird until mozilla lost interest in it. it launched at a conference in september 2008 and spent sixteen years selling an application most of the world had stopped paying for. em client bought the company on 22 october 2024 and said the same day that postbox would not be sold or developed again.… ## [Infinity Blade (2010 - 2018)](https://rip.so/infinity-blade.html) _2026-08-24 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ infinity blade was the game that proved an iphone could run unreal engine 3, made by twelve people at chair entertainment and released on 9 december 2010 for six dollars. it took more than a million and a half dollars in four days and was the fastest-grossing app on the store at the time. epic removed all three games on 10 december 2018, saying the series had become hard to support against its… ## [profullstack on Ko‑fi (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/PrvzuOOiduJd) _2026-08-24 · **Sponsored**_ Open the creator's Ko‑fi page. ## [OpenSolaris (2005 - 2010)](https://rip.so/opensolaris.html) _2026-08-24 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ opensolaris was sun microsystems opening its own unix, starting with dtrace in january 2005 and the bulk of the solaris source that june. it had a written charter and a governing board the community actually elected, and it shipped three public distributions. oracle finished buying sun in january 2010, and on 13 august an internal memo leaked saying the source would stop being published. the board… ## [CERN httpd (1990 - 1996)](https://rip.so/cern-httpd.html) _2026-08-24 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ cern httpd was the first web server. tim berners-lee wrote it on a next machine at cern and for six years it was the program that answered when something asked for a page. later versions could also sit in front of a network as a caching proxy, which is a second first nobody credits it with. the w3c released version 3.0a on 15 july 1996 and stopped there, moving its attention to a java server… ## [Uriminzokkiri (2003 - 2024)](https://rip.so/uriminzokkiri.html) _2026-08-23 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ uriminzokkiri was north korea's first website, up in 2003 on a shanghai server, pushing state media at south korean readers in five languages while south korea blocked it at home. it kept accounts on the western platforms its target audience actually used, and it survived a hack and a youtube ban without much trouble. what it did not survive was kim jong un declaring at the end of 2023 that… ## [Wileyfox (2015 - 2018)](https://rip.so/wileyfox.html) _2026-08-23 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ wileyfox sold cheap unlocked android phones in britain from august 2015, and its one distinguishing feature was cyanogen os running out of the box instead of being flashed on by the owner. when cyanogen stopped being an operating system company during 2016 that feature evaporated and left a budget handset with nothing much to argue for it. the company entered administration on 6 february 2018.… ## [8-Track Heaven (1995 - 2024)](https://rip.so/8-track-heaven.html) _2026-08-23 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ 8-track heaven went up on 20 july 1995 as a shrine to a car stereo format that was already two decades dead, and it stayed up for twenty nine years, long enough that printed web directories listed it as the only site on the subject. malcolm riviera ran it and ran the matching usenet group too, which meant the whole small world had a single point of failure and that point was a man. he died in 2023… ## [Lang-8 (2006 - 2024)](https://rip.so/lang-8.html) _2026-08-23 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ lang-8 ran on reciprocity. you posted a paragraph in a language you were learning and a native speaker struck through your phrasing and wrote theirs beside it. you paid that back by doing the same for somebody writing in the language you grew up in. it held over 750,000 accounts and around 90 languages at its peak, run out of tokyo by a company small enough that the spam bots eventually… ## [Devil's Third (2015 - 2016)](https://rip.so/devils-third.html) _2026-08-23 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ devil's third spent seven years passing between publishers before nintendo put it out on the wii u in 2015, where the reviews took it apart. the campaign was the part critics hated and the multiplayer was the part its defenders liked, which made the ending unusually cruel. nintendo switched the servers off on 29 december 2016 and the japanese pc version followed in march 2017. what survives on the… ## [Asus ZenFone (2014 - 2026)](https://rip.so/asus-zenfone.html) _2026-08-23 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ asus announced the first zenfones at CES in january 2014 and spent twelve years never quite getting to scale. the line's best years were 2021 to 2023, when the zenfone 8, 9 and 10 were the only phones left that put a top-end chip in a body you could work with one hand. then asus made it big like everyone else. in january 2026 chairman jonney shih said there would be no new phone models, and the… ## [Ready Player Me (2021 - 2026)](https://rip.so/ready-player-me.html) _2026-08-23 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ ready player me was the closest anyone came to an avatar you owned rather than rented. you built a face once, and developers wired it into their own games and social worlds through a free api, so the same character walked from one company's product into another's. it raised about seventy million dollars on that promise. netflix bought the estonian company in december 2025 and closed the public… ## [Autodesk 123D (2011 - 2017)](https://rip.so/autodesk-123d.html) _2026-08-23 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ autodesk sells CAD by the seat to people whose employer signs the purchase order. 123d was the opposite of that, a free suite aimed at anyone with a 3d printer and a saturday, and for six years it was the easiest way into modeling that existed. it could turn a ring of phone photos into a mesh and slice a model into cardboard sheets. autodesk shut the whole thing down on 31 march 2017, said it was… ## [Meet Claude, the AI assistant (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/zJrXSBDMenva) _2026-08-23 · **Sponsored**_ Conversational AI to answer questions, brainstorm ideas, and help with tasks. ## [Scirus (2001 - 2014)](https://rip.so/scirus.html) _2026-08-23 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ scirus was elsevier's free science search engine, launched in 2001 and reaching 167 million indexed pages. it looked past journals into patents and the pages researchers kept on department servers, and it was genuinely good at it. then google scholar arrived, did most of the same job inside a box everyone already used, and elsevier decided catching up was not worth the money. the site was retired… ## [NHK+ (2020 - 2025)](https://rip.so/nhk-plus.html) _2026-08-23 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ nhk+ put japan's public broadcaster on the internet in april 2020, live and with a week of catch-up, free to anyone whose household already paid the reception fee. it reached 6.68 million registered ids. on 1 october 2025 a change to the broadcast law turned internet distribution into an obligation rather than a favor, and nhk answered by merging five of its apps into one called nhk one. the… ## [AI and Value](https://heartsoulmachine.com/blog/2026/08-23-ai-and-value/) _2026-08-23 · Heart Soul Machine_ Watching AI devalue so much around us - we need to change the conversation. Less about how much more we can do, and more about how we can do better – it all depends on what we value. ## ["Shawn, Don't": The Bentler Family Murders](https://truecrimeweekly.substack.com/p/shawn-dont-the-bentler-family-murders) _2026-08-22 · AJ Thomas · True Crime Weekly_ Bonaparte, Iowa, October 14, 2006 a 911 call from inside a farmhouse captured a sister’s voice, a shot, a scream, and silence. ## [FlashGet (1999 - 2013)](https://rip.so/flashget.html) _2026-08-22 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ before broadband made downloading boring, a file that failed at ninety four percent was simply gone and you began again from zero. flashget opened several connections to the same server at once and stitched the slices back together, and more importantly it wrote them to disk as they arrived, so a dead line cost you a minute instead of an evening. it came out of china in 1999 under the name jetcar… ## [Share-Online.biz (2007 - 2019)](https://rip.so/share-online-biz.html) _2026-08-22 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ for more than a decade share-online was where the german-speaking internet parked files that were too big to email and too hot to host under a real name. eighteen million of them sat behind 1.3 million registered accounts, and close to three quarters of the traffic came from inside germany. on the afternoon of 16 october 2019 police raided it across three countries at once and the servers went… ## [Xelibri (2003 - 2004)](https://rip.so/xelibri.html) _2026-08-22 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ in january 2003 siemens announced it would sell mobile phones the way a clothing label sells clothes, in seasonal collections that were supposed to go out of date on schedule. the first four models were designed in house and came out looking like star trek props. the second four went to ideo and reached 399 euros for hardware that could barely manage a text message. all eight together sold 780,000… ## [DAG (2007 - 2008)](https://rip.so/dag.html) _2026-08-22 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ a telephone company and a newspaper publisher started a free daily together in may 2007, on the theory that a printed page could hand you off to a website and a phone screen. dutch commuters took 400,000 copies a day at the peak, which sounds like success until you look at what advertisers were willing to pay for a reader who had not chosen to read. kpn walked away from the content side after… ## [Spinlet (2006 - 2020)](https://rip.so/spinlet.html) _2026-08-22 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ spinlet began in tampere in 2006 as a finnish music player that went nowhere. nigerian investors bought it in 2011 and relaunched it out of lagos as the first streaming service in sub-saharan africa, carrying african catalog nobody else had bothered to license. it reached close to two million app downloads and then hit a wall that had nothing to do with music, because nigerian bank cards could not… ## [The Lifehouse Method (2007 - 2008)](https://rip.so/lifehouse-method.html) _2026-08-22 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ pete townshend wrote lifehouse in 1971 as a story about music generated from a person's own data, and the who could not build it because the machines did not exist yet. in april 2007 he put those machines on a website with the composer lawrence ball and the developer dave snowdon, and about 10,500 people sat for a musical portrait assembled out of what they typed in. it ran fifteen months. the… ## [Open directory of blogs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/1u8gdBE2jcXm) _2026-08-22 · **Sponsored**_ Drop URLs or OPML — get per-blog pages plus machine-readable JSON, OPML, text ## [Joystick (1988 - 2012)](https://rip.so/joystick-magazine.html) _2026-08-22 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ joystick started on 9 november 1988 as a thirty two page weekly of cheat codes and reviews, went monthly in january 1990, and spent the next twenty two years being the french pc gaming magazine with a demo disc stuck to the front of it. the print run was 62,000 at the start and under 12,000 at the end. its publisher went into liquidation on 8 november 2012 and issue 260 appeared on the 23rd, the… ## [Jumia Food (2012 - 2023)](https://rip.so/jumia-food.html) _2026-08-22 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ jumia food started life as hellofood in 2012, one of rocket internet's african ventures, and took the jumia name in the 2016 rebrand. by late 2023 it was moving about eleven percent of everything jumia sold and had never once made money doing it. on 13 december 2023 the parent announced it was closing food delivery in all seven of its markets before the end of that month, to put the capital into… ## [BT MyDonate (2011 - 2019)](https://rip.so/bt-mydonate.html) _2026-08-22 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ bt built a donations platform in 2011 and took no commission on it, which in british fundraising was the entire point, because everybody else was keeping a percentage. by the end of 2015 more than 8,750 charities were registered and the sponsored-run economy ran through it every spring. on 21 january 2019 bt announced it was closing, said the market now had plenty of fee-free options of its own,… ## [POPLINE (1973 - 2019)](https://rip.so/popline.html) _2026-08-22 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ popline was the reproductive health literature database, more than 370,000 records reaching back to 1827, run out of johns hopkins on usaid money from 1978 onward. in february 2008 its search engine was configured to treat abortion as a stop word, so a database built for family planning research could no longer find its own central subject. that lasted until the new york times printed it in april… ## [New Laptop, New Setup](https://heartsoulmachine.com/blog/2026/08-22-new-laptop-new-setup/) _2026-08-22 · Heart Soul Machine_ A quick list and quick install of my go-to apps for a new Mac. ## [The Ones Who Already Cleared It](https://aiofthecoast.dcxps.com/p/the-ones-who-already-cleared-it) _2026-08-21 · Jiri "Skzites" Fiala · AI Of The Coast - Jiri Fiala_ 86% never energize. We went from order to commissioning in 8 months. Here's the receipt. ## [Upstream (2020 - 2022)](https://rip.so/upstream-ph.html) _2026-08-21 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ a philippine pay-per-view film platform opened on 14 november 2020 by two directors whose cinemas had been shut for eight months. it carried the 2020 metro manila film festival, signed a video on demand agreement with universal pictures in may 2021, and premiered local films that had nowhere else to open. in august 2022 it posted a notice about scheduled system maintenance starting on 1 september.… ## [Gamest (1986 - 1999)](https://rip.so/gamest.html) _2026-08-21 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ a japanese magazine about arcade machines and nothing else, first printed on 5 may 1986 and coming out every two weeks by 1993. it started on shoot 'em ups and scoring tables, then turned with street fighter ii and became the written record of competitive fighting games in the country that invented them. its reader-voted awards are still quoted by people who never held a copy. shinseisha went… ## [Orange Wednesdays (2003 - 2015)](https://rip.so/orange-wednesdays.html) _2026-08-21 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ a mobile network promotion that turned into a national weekday habit. you sent the word film to 241 on a wednesday and the code that came back bought two cinema tickets for the price of one. it ran from 2003 to 25 february 2015 and for most of that time it was the best-known thing about orange in britain. it outlived the cinema advertising and the bafta sponsorship that had been built around it,… ## [Monster Hunter Frontier (2007 - 2019)](https://rip.so/monster-hunter-frontier.html) _2026-08-21 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ capcom's permanently online monster hunter, subscription funded and never once released in the west. it opened on windows in japan on 21 june 2007 and kept expanding onto hardware until six platforms were sharing the same servers, several of them consoles that had already been discontinued. two full rewrites arrived as monster hunter frontier g in 2013 and monster hunter frontier z in 2016. capcom… ## [Sendo (1998 - 2005)](https://rip.so/sendo.html) _2026-08-21 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ a birmingham handset maker that built cheap phones for operators and then bet its future on being first out with microsoft's smartphone platform. microsoft paid for a tenth of the company and took a board seat in february 2001, the software never arrived in a state anyone could ship, and the z100 was canceled weeks before its november 2002 launch. sendo sued, settled in september 2004 on terms… ## [GNU arch (2001 - 2009)](https://rip.so/gnu-arch.html) _2026-08-21 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ a distributed version control system written as a pile of shell scripts in 2001, years before the industry agreed that the central server was the problem. changesets instead of file revisions, and branching that happened across machines rather than through one server. all of it correct, all of it wrapped in a command line people could not tolerate. bitkeeper's collapse in april 2005 produced git… ## [Acetrax (2006 - 2013)](https://rip.so/acetrax.html) _2026-08-21 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ a zürich company that sold films over the internet to televisions, back when a television could barely manage it, by getting its software installed at the factory instead of asking anyone to seek it out. it claimed a reach of 282 million households across 48 countries, a figure that counted sets rather than customers. sky bought it in may 2012 for the technology, folded that into its own on demand… ## [ZapMe! (1996 - 2001)](https://rip.so/zapme.html) _2026-08-21 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ a california company that handed american schools a free computer lab and a satellite connection, and took the corner of every screen as payment. by late 2000 it had 25,000 machines in 2,300 schools with around two million students sitting in front of the advertising panel. the campaign against selling to a captive audience of minors made the whole thing politically expensive at exactly the moment… ## [Quokka Sports (1996 - 2001)](https://rip.so/quokka-sports.html) _2026-08-21 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ a company founded to cover a yacht race by sending home the instrument readings, which turned into the argument that any sports event is a data stream and that television only ever shows you one channel of it. it built nbc's sydney 2000 site, the first live coverage of an olympic games on the internet, and nearly six million people used it. producing that coverage cost almost exactly what the… ## [Reel.com (1996 - 2000)](https://rip.so/reel-com.html) _2026-08-21 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ a video store owner's recommendation cards, rebuilt as a website, with a shop bolted on because nobody pays for advice. it worked well enough that hollywood entertainment bought it for $96.9 million in 1998, one month before amazon started selling video and took the whole category in six weeks. by 1999 reel was losing thirteen cents on every dollar it took. the store was shut on 19 june 2000 and… ## [2026-08-21 - Monthly banking statistics, August 2026](https://www.snb.ch/en/publications/statistical-publications/data-portal/2026/08/statpub_news_20260821_bsta) _2026-08-21 · Statistical publications_ ## [2026-08-21 - Economic data, August 2026](https://www.snb.ch/en/publications/statistical-publications/data-portal/2026/08/statpub_news_20260821_b) _2026-08-21 · Statistical publications_ ## [Obsidian and the Distributed Learning System](https://heartsoulmachine.com/blog/2026/08-21-obsidian-and-the-distributed-learning-system/) _2026-08-21 · Heart Soul Machine_ A personal learning system built on Obsidian, your own Domain, and ActivityPub Hubs could finally make the Distributed Learning System I sketched in 2017 a buildable reality. ## [Will Embedded Software Remain an Afterthought?](https://embeddedartistry.com/blog/2026/08/20/will-embedded-software-remain-an-afterthought/) _2026-08-20 · Phillip Johnston · Embedded Artistry_ 20 August 2026 by Phillip JohnstonI have been thinking about this quote from Patterns in the Machine: Software is complex, challenging, and time consuming and requires skilled professionals—no matter how much management, marketing people, and customers would like it to be otherwise. Unfortunately, in the embedded space, software development is a tertiary activity. Many stakeholders … Continue…