In which I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft… and give it to you.
End Poem - Wikisource, the free online library
Julian Gough wrote the "End Poem" for the ending of the video game Minecraft, where it is presented to the player after they defeat the game's final boss (the Ender Dragon). In 2022, Gough released this version of the text of the poem into the public domain.
The day open source died: a story about Minecraft, Bukkit, and the GPL
Once upon a time, I volunteered in the Minecraft open source community with Bukkit and Spigot. This is a story about FOSS and young folks.
The Minecraft Generation (Published 2016)
How a clunky Swedish computer game is teaching millions of children to master the digital world.
No Longer No Sense of an Ending
This is my first feature piece on Contents Magazine, about harnessing the properties of hypertext and the Web for superior reader experiences and business results.
Goodbye Sketch, Hello Shelley! - exe.dev blog
Introducing Shelley, exe.dev's mobile-friendly, web-based, multi-modal coding agent.
It's Time To Leave Microsoft
Contrary to what you might believe from the title, this article isn't published to try to convince you to leave Microsoft (although, if you are still on the fence, please continue reading the section below); instead of providing you with a paralyzing amount of dystopian information that is already available
Out of the Software Crisis: two-year project review
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
The story of this blog so far: 'AI', the death of web dev, and feeling like an outsider
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
A monstrous primer on the works of H.P. Lovecraft
Your guide to the fantasy author’s nightmarish must-reads
It Didn’t Have To End This Way - Kotaku
After years of strife and sabotage, BioWare is gone, and video games are lesser for it
Inside Microsoft’s vision for the future of Windows, Office, and work
It’s all about the web and Lego blocks.
Escape from Microsoft Word
When I work in Word, for all its dazzling prowess, I can’t escape a faint sense of having entered a closed, rule-bound society. When I write in WordPerfect, with all its scruffy, low-tech simplicity, the world seems more open, a place where endings can’t be predicted, where freedom might be real.
Notes from my Beginner Computer Literacy Class Part 1 - Alex’s Writing Journal
Helping the uninitiated navigate this brave new digital world
Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps
Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools
getartcraft.com