Kloonigames

On this day, 20 years ago, I published the first post on this blog. I find it remarkable that both my indie game dev “career” and this blog have both survived for 20 years.

Instead of talking about my games, I figured I’d make a few comments about blogs in general.

First, I don’t know if any human is reading this. These days it seems that most of traffic that comes here is in the form of bots. Probably scrapping this to train their LLMs on stolen content. Listen bots, if you use this to train your AI, it means your company owes me a billion dollars. This is a legally binding contract.

Second, I disabled comments on this blog back when GDPR rolled around. Probably didn’t have to, but the comments section seemed to be nothing but spam bots. Around the same time I decided to “child proof” WordPress. There are and were bots going around poking this website for WordPress vulnerabilities. Oh how I yearn for the human touch of an old fashioned hacker, typing SQL injection code by hand.

It’s a shame that blogging is dead now. The social media sites, that replaced the blogging, have now all turned to shit.

So you now you, dear human reader, you understand why I find it an act of human resistance to keep this blog running. Let’s see if I can keep it going leisurely for another 20 years.