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A Year of Mornings
A collection of fifty love poems that follows a young heart as it finds love, finds the strength to be in love and finally, finds the strength to let go.
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I am a platform engineer and a writer based in Finland.
I am the author of A Year of Mornings, a collection of poems for young adults.
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Sony is killing discs — and showing us why it’s a terrible idea by Andrew Webster
Sony announced that, starting in January 2028, the company will no longer produce physical PlayStation discs, which means that from that moment on you can only purchase new PS5 games digitally. At the same time, Sony also announced that it’s going to start winding down the digital stores for both the PS3 and PS Vita, helpfully illustrating one of the most pertinent issues with a digital-only future for gaming: Once the stores are gone, so are the games.
Microsoft is doing something else - Xbox testing disc-to-digital feature that digitizes a physical game collection
Microsoft will likely soon follow Sony and stop the production of physical discs for Xbox games. But instead of leaving physical discs behind entirely, sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans tell me the company has quietly been working on a disc-to-digital feature that will allow Xbox owners to digitize their existing physical game collections.
Maybe they should add a feature which allows a user (or some archiving company) to convert a digital game to a physical one? Or some other way to conserve the games.
I have (or had) some physical games on the PS4. Maybe a 50/50 split. Since moving to the PS5, even though I paid extra for the disc drive, I have not bought a single physical game.
Physical games allow for sharing and re-playability. They could do the same with digital games, but won’t. The benefit (for the game companies) is that each players has to buy their copy of the game. The problem (for the players) is that some may not be able to afford the games. The companies must have done that calculation though.
I have started playing maybe half an hour or so each day now. I am playing [[202605290954 Ghost of Yotei|Ghost of Yotei]] now. So I’m looking forward to playing GTA 6 when it comes out. Would I play when it releases? I don’t know. It is a single player game. I can enjoy the story later as well, when the prices drop slightly - which has been my modus-operandi with games on the PlayStation.
So, let’s wait and watch I guess.
Om Malik passed away on June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital after a long health journey with his heart. He was surrounded by family and friends.
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— Om’s Family
It felt like I knew him. Not knew knew - I never talked to him - but knew him from his writing basically.
He had written on his blog about being away for a little while with no new posts. I had read it and thought he may be going away for a vacation.
RIP.
It’s a bad time to want a new computer by Jay Peters
The competition for parts for data centers is all based on a bet that AI will be a foundational part of how people will use computers and interact with tech in the future. The hyperscalers are racing to build out infrastructure to train their AI models and offer AI-based services for people and businesses. But the lack of supply for components means that buying computers is increasingly more miserable for everyday consumers. Today, everything in tech is more expensive than it was yesterday.
Would this bubble pop soon? But I think this is our new reality. I can only hope that there are no further price increases, but I think there will be.
This doesn’t mean you should never grind at 100% effort. I think there are probably two or three times a year where I work as hard as I possibly can: long hours, intense focus, thinking about the problem from when I wake up to when I go to bed. But I reserve this mode of work for when the rewards are really high. For the rest of the year, I take it relatively easy.
There is a matter of luck involved in this too, or skill. And the headline is so damn salicious!
