In 12 hours, I start playing The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons for charity. Tune in, donate, and see me embarrass myself! www.twitch.tv/zeldadungeon

I've been wanting to write an article like this for awhile:

Zelda Dungeon@zeldadungeon.net · last mo.

Notes from this month: I launched a big new feature at Ghost, made a two-kilobyte art project, clicked links about tech/AI ethics, and learned a weird fact about the Soviet Union. evanhahn.com/notes-from-j...

www.wired.com/story/why-do...

Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising?

From protecting privacy to saving the free press, it may be the single best way to fix the internet.

wired.com

Been working hard on a big new feature for Ghost: automations! Publishers can send a sequence of emails when someone subscribes. More actions and triggers on the way. ghost.org/changelog/em...

Email sequences for new members

Welcome new free and paid members with a series of automated emails over time

ghost.org

"Wikipedia:Wiki Workers United solidarity" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

My blog turned 16 this month! I did nothing to celebrate, but made some little tools and clicked some links about tech ethics. evanhahn.com/notes-from-m...

New tool: upload a ZIP file, get a smaller ZIP file back. Primarily relies on better Deflate compression, but also has a few small tricks to save bytes. evanhahn.com/uploads/2026... Read more here: evanhahn.com/make-zip-fil...

Just published a Firefox extension to add a little feature I wanted: "Open Link in Unloaded Tab". addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...

Open Link in Unloaded Tab – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download Open Link in Unloaded Tab for Firefox. Adds "Open Link in Unloaded Tab" to the context menu.

addons.mozilla.org

Wrote a little command line tool to do (completely offline) translation: evanhahn.com/offline-cli-...

My notes from April: feebly came to GitHub's defense (even though I don't like them), published a new version of a weirdo JavaScript package, and clicked a slew of links. evanhahn.com/notes-from-a...

www.wired.com/story/palant...

Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They're the Bad Guys

Interviews with current and former Palantir employees, along with internal Slack messages obtained by WIRED, suggest a workforce in turmoil.

wired.com

GitHub’s downtime is bad, but uptime numbers can be misleading. It’s not as bad as it looks; more like a D than an F. evanhahn.com/in-defense-o...

Today is Trans Day of Visibility! Nintendo's development team for The Legend of Zelda has an abysmal history with transgender representation, but trans people have always been at the heart of the Zelda community.

Notes from March 2026: I wrote a blog post about errors, celebrated one year at Zelda Dungeon, and clicked some bleak links about AI. evanhahn.com/notes-from-m...

Are you ready for the biggest day of mass protest that America has ever seen? Across all 50 states and dozens of countries, millions of people will gather tomorrow to reject Trump’s brutality at home and abroad. Please join us for a historic No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

Just published a short nonfiction story called "All tests pass". evanhahn.com/all-tests-pa...

"human.json is a protocol for humans to assert authorship of their site content and vouch for the humanity of others. It uses URL ownership as identity, and trust propagates through a crawlable web of vouches between sites." I've added it to my website! codeberg.org/robida/human...

ELIZA, released in 1966, is a state-of-the-art language model. It offers zero-GPU inference with sub-millisecond semantic throughput, and scores highly on EQ measurements (emotional intelligence). I built llm-eliza for using it at the command line. evanhahn.com/llm-eliza/

I like that my employer writes a blog post every time I finish a project ghost.org/changelog/im...

Improved editor for welcome emails

Use the full power of the Ghost editor when welcoming your new members

ghost.org

In my mind, there are 2 kinds of software error: 1. Expected errors (think "user entered invalid data"). Part of normal operation, should be handled. 2. Unexpected errors (think "null pointer exception") are the developer's fault. Shouldn't be handled. More thoughts: evanhahn.com/the-two-kind...

Notes from February 2026: shipped my first feature at Ghost, learned about gzip, celebrated Zelda's 40th, and found a bunch of links. evanhahn.com/notes-from-f...

I was surprised to learn that gzip streams encode which operating system did the compression. I built a little tool, "gzpeek", to inspect this metadata (and more): evanhahn.com/introducing-...

"US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives" www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Exclusive: US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives

President Donald Trump's administration has ordered U.S. diplomats to lobby against attempts to regulate U.S. tech companies' handling of foreigners' data, saying in an internal diplomatic cable seen ...

reuters.com

The original Legend of Zelda just turned 40! With other birthdays on the horizon (Twilight Princess's 20th is soon), I wanted a calendar that showed the anniversary of every Zelda game. So I made one. Subscribe to this in your calendar app to see every Zelda-versary: evanhahn.com/tape/zelda_a...

My notes from January 2026: started a new job at @ghost.org, published a WebAssembly module, set every Vim configuration option, and applauded general strikes. evanhahn.com/notes-from-j...

"The request [from ICE] underscores how tools originally developed for digital advertising and other commercial purposes are increasingly being considered for use by the government for law enforcement and surveillance." www.wired.com/story/ice-as...

ICE Asks Companies About ‘Ad Tech and Big Data’ Tools It Could Use in Investigations

A new federal filing from ICE demonstrates how commercial tools are increasingly being considered by the government for law enforcement and surveillance.

wired.com

"I predict that within 15 years Microsoft will discontinue Windows in favor of a Windows themed Linux distribution." gamesbymason.com/blog/2026/mi...

🪟 Prediction: Microsoft Is Going To Do The Funniest Thing Imaginable

When you think Microsoft you probably don't think sense of humor. And yet, I'm convinced that Microsoft is going to do a very specific *very* funny thing within our lifetimes.

gamesbymason.com

Congrats to the jQuery team for launching version 4.0! blog.jquery.com/2026/01/17/j...

Just learned about the JavaScript Mascot javascript-mascot.github.io