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Eric Mill @konklone.com · 23/09/2026

Weird, I'm at a conference today about SI, but everyone keeps calling it AI.

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Bobby Vanden @danga.games · 02/09/2026

HE WHO WATCHES IS OUT NOW! Please go check it out if you are at all interested in puzzle games. It is a banger (self certified) and something that I really put my heart into. Day one reviews go so freaking far, if you like the game please do leave a review! I even narrated a trailer for it 😬

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Eric Mill @konklone.com · 07/09/2026

He Who Watches is not getting nearly enough reviews and downloads for how amazing this new puzzle game is. I haven't seen 3D logic explored so ambitiously before, complete with strong vibes and deeply satisfying moments. Supports all of Win/Mac/Deck! store.steampowered.com/app/1070500/...

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Save 15% on He Who Watches on Steam

Walk on walls. Manipulate gravity. Discover secrets. In this first-person puzzle game, delve deep into an ancient labyrinth of intricate conundrums, seeking an imprisoned god at the centre.

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Eric Mill @konklone.com · 01/09/2026

I'm sure all 750,000 of those IPs represent people who have given their informed consent to share their bandwidth with reputable residential proxy services, in return for services whose value and costs they are fully aware of.

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Eric Mill @konklone.com · 21/08/2026

We're hiring a new product security lead for Wikipedia! It's a new lead PM role that would steer our security engineering team and how we go about this work here at the Wikimedia Foundation. AND: it's fully remote, and open in a good number of countries. job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jo...

We are hiring a Lead Product Manager to bring their experience dealing with modern threats to bear on Wikipedia’s security strategy in the AI era, and to drive a strong security culture throughout the Wikimedia Foundation and movement.

Though this is a senior role, prior experience in a product manager role is not required. This position is intended to bring strong technical and security experience, including some familiarity with AI in a security context, into a role focused on product and platform strategy.

This position could be a good fit for a candidate with both strong technical skills and strong communication skills, who is interested in transitioning from engineering work to a strategic role.

This role is an opportunity to be at the center of a pivotal time for Wikipedia, as AI is not only changing security, but also how people access knowledge online. Responding to these changes requires us to plan ambitiously and act decisively, while working closely with the communities whom the project serves.

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Eric Mill @konklone.com · 03/08/2026

I know that "sparkles" as the common AI icon is pretty easy to make fun of. It's pretty silly. But remember we've been using a cloud to represent "the internet" for decades now. It's the exact same "you don't need to know, it's just magic" vibe. I've been making fun of that thing the whole time!

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Eric Mill @konklone.com · 20/06/2026

If you love Wikipedia, take a look at this product job we've just opened to lead some of our most interesting work on keeping the place safe and authentic for humans: job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jo... This role will work directly with dedicated Wikipedians around the world. Think it over!

Wikimedia’s Product Safety and Integrity team is charged with keeping Wikipedia a stable and trustworthy place while protecting its many readers and contributors. Our strategy is built around putting usable security principles into practice, bringing cutting-edge AI and machine learning techniques to bear on difficult problems, and close day-to-day working partnerships with some of the most dedicated and brilliant Wikipedians in the world.

We are hiring a lead product manager to join this team and help drive this strategy by overseeing a cross-functional product team of engineers, designers, data scientists, and others. Wikipedia’s unique community model, and our team’s focus on working with some of its most trusted members, means that this role will also work directly with key community groups and individuals to understand and respond to the reality on the ground.

This role is an opportunity to be at the center of a pivotal time for Wikipedia, as AI changes how people access knowledge, and presents new risks and opportunities in online safety and security.

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Eric Mill @konklone.com · 17/05/2026

Really enjoyed this cute little 15-minute translation puzzle game, Lost in Translation: featurekreep.itch.io/lost-in-tran... I love that translation games are now "in", since Chants of Sennaar :)

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Lost in Translation by FeatureKreep

Communicate with aliens in their language

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Eric Mill @konklone.com · 05/05/2026

Yael is a badass - and you should hire her!!

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Eric Mill @konklone.com · 01/04/2026

Shoo cynics, April Fool's Day is my favorite day on the internet. Please share with me all the good jokes you find!

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Eric Mill @konklone.com · 30/12/2025

Every year, I do a list of 10 games I loved that year -- this is 2025! My guess is you'll know some of them, and also that you won't know some of them. Please let me tell you about these fine video games!! (Links are mostly to Steam, but some are on console too.) /thread

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Eric Mill @konklone.com · 30/12/2025

I have to impress upon you that Sudokuvania is a fully realized Metroidvania. It is merely expressed as 20+ integrated variant sudokus. There is nothing else like this. Solving it is one of my proudest achievements. It is a $0 website. Use a laptop. sudokupad.app/6u61fsw0di?s...

A screenshot of the full beginning map of Sudokuvania.

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Eric Mill @konklone.com · 24/12/2025

Enjoying seeing people write little unofficial bots on isitchristmas.com during its interactive season. :)

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Eric Mill @konklone.com · 02/09/2025

I'm working on cleaning up my withered online presence, starting with my homepage. Going back over long-ago (now private) blog posts really hits home that I just didn't know how to write like a grown-up until age 30 or so. Really wish I could have figured that out earlier.

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Eric Mill @konklone.com · 25/07/2025

I know some will be mad at Google for shutting down a service, but I am *unabashedly joyous* that a major URL shortener is getting turned off. These things are atrocious, fragile, and not at all in your interest as a producer or consumer of them. www.theverge.com/news/713125/...

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Google’s shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month

It’s time to change to a new URL shortener.

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Eric Mill @konklone.com · 20/07/2025

I do not understand why the party is not marginalizing the obviously poor judgment and defensive crouch of the Biden campaign's inner circle. Anita Dunn, Ron Klain, or David Plouffe should not be allowed anywhere near a Democratic campaign again. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/u...

“We are not interested in second-guessing campaign tactics or decisions of campaign operatives,” said Jane Kleeb, the Nebraska Democratic chairwoman, who heads the association of Democratic state chairs and is a close ally of Mr. Martin. “We are interested in what voters turned out for Republicans and Democrats, and how we can fix this moving forward.”

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Eric Mill @konklone.com · 13/07/2025

I have come to adore Mimic Logic, this weirdo little logic game that is essentially the Parlor game from Blue Prince taken to its extreme logical conclusions. It's at 98% positive, only a few reviews short of Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam - give it a go! store.steampowered.com/app/2455920/...

A screenshot of Mimic Logic, showing the puzzle interface.

A screenshot of Mimic Logic, showing the exploration interface.

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Eric Mill @konklone.com · 09/07/2025

When is the overwraught Classics of Game thinkpiece finally going to arrive?

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Eric Mill @konklone.com · 03/07/2025

Come secure Wikipedia with me! We're hiring a manager to oversee security operations, and to lead a group of security and privacy engineers that keep the platform safe. There's never been more energy at Wikimedia for this kind of work. Throw in for it! job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jo...

Why this role matters
The Wikimedia Foundation operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. We care deeply about the security, privacy, and integrity of these projects, and of the volunteer community that makes them matter. The Product Safety and Security team plays a central role in shaping how the Wikimedia Foundation and its projects will adapt to increasingly complex threats.

You are responsible for:

Leading a group of security engineers and privacy engineers in protecting the Wikimedia Foundation’s people, project integrity, infrastructure and other assets against threats.
Advising product management across the Foundation on security best practices and security implications of various product decisions.
Helping to establish the Wikimedia Foundation’s overall security and safety roadmap, and ensuring delivery against its technical and organizational goals.
Collaborating with Product & Engineering teams, Legal, ITS and other departments.
Setting direction, unblocking work, and ensuring delivery against technical and organizational goals.
Establishing and leading the execution of group processes, including sprint planning, security releases and deployments, security incident response.
Hiring and developing a high-performing, inclusive engineering group that builds and owns security-critical software and operates from a shared sense of mission

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Eric Mill @konklone.com · 02/07/2025

Trump's DOJ is validating the position state election officials have always held -- which is to reflexively push back against any potential for abusive federal political interference in elections, even well-intentioned security requirements. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...

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Justice Dept. Explores Using Criminal Charges Against Election Officials

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Eric Mill @konklone.com · 01/07/2025

@leedrutman.bsky.social Do you think the much more strategic and consistent use of cross-endorsing and alliances in NYC this time around is a point in favor of RCV in achieving its stated goals? Or no different?

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 01/07/2025

I also hate that it’s borrowing from the evil plan name

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Eric Mill @konklone.com · 04/06/2025

Pretty sweet job for a public interest journalist interested in making a podcast for @propublica.org! job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

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Eric Mill @konklone.com · 26/05/2025

There's nothing "centrist" about speaking plainly in the language of your audience, rather than the language of your friends. I am definitely among those who believe progressives need to speak more like normal people in public life. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Democratic troubles revive debate over left-wing buzzwords

From “intersectionality” to “equity,” many say jargon is alienating key voters. But progressives say inclusive language is vital.

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Josh Aas @joshaas.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

We created a safer AV1 decoder, rav1d, by forking the dav1d decoder and rewriting the C code in Rust. It works great except our Rust is 5% slower than the C. We're not sure why so we're offering a $20k bounty to figure it out and make the Rust code faster. www.memorysafety.org/blog/rav1d-p...

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$20,000 rav1d AV1 Decoder Performance Bounty

In March of 2023 we announced that we were starting work on a safer high performance AV1 decoder called rav1d, written in Rust. We partnered with Immunant to do the engineering work. By September of 2...

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Eric Mill @konklone.com · 21/04/2025

In May, I'm joining @wikimediafoundation.org (the non-profit that hosts Wikipedia), where I'll be leading its product work across both security and trust & safety. And I'm excited about it! Hard to think of a better use of my energy than keeping Wikipedia strong and healthy for the next generation.

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Eric Mill @konklone.com · 16/04/2025

@draknek.bsky.social Are you going to post the Electrifying Incident OST somewhere?

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Eric Mill @konklone.com · 16/04/2025

Absolutely loved this. Me and my 4yo finished it in about an hour and a half and were fully charmed by it.

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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

woodchuck: (seeing some unchucked wood) what the fuck is this

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Eric Mill @konklone.com · 24/03/2025

This seems like a good time to re-post @edfelten.bsky.social's 2017 classic, "On Encryption Apps in the White House": blog.citp.princeton.edu/2017/02/27/o... The USG absolutely *does* need a Signal-like service - which could retain records and watch for errant invitees. We could have nice things!

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On Encryption Apps in the White House - CITP Blog

Politico ran a long story today pointing to an increase in the use of encrypted communication apps by people in DC, government, and the White House specifically. Poisonous political divisions have spa...

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Eric Mill @konklone.com · 22/03/2025

I'm not usually one for text-based games, but Type Help absolutely gripped me for a few evenings until I was done. A haunting detective game inspired by Obra Dinn and others, its own unique mechanics and twists that are super satisfying. And it is free! Play here: william-rous.itch.io/type-help

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Type Help by William Rous

The Unsolvable Mystery

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Eric Mill @konklone.com · 06/03/2025

Played the demo of Piece by Piece last night with my 4yo - he and I both loved it, and it was surprisingly clever and interesting for what I thought at first would be a shallow concept. I'm definitely going to buy the full game: store.steampowered.com/app/3249380/...

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Piece by Piece on Steam

Piece by Piece is a literal puzzle platformer where each level is fragmented into puzzle pieces. Clear each puzzle by connecting and unconnected each piece to make your way through each of our 100 han...

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Eric Mill @konklone.com · 04/03/2025

YESSS -- the former Zachtronics team is back with a new game about 1980's Japanese manufacturing logistics!! I have watched the trailer several times. www.pcgamer.com/games/puzzle...

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One of the best puzzle game designers is back with Kaizen: A Factory Story, a game about manufacturing Japanese consumer goods during the largest economic bubble in history

Zachtronics is dead; long live Coincidence.

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Eric Mill @konklone.com · 26/02/2025

As far as I can recall, this is the first time Bezos has taken direct and explicit responsibility for a change in editorial direction. For most of his tenure to this point, he was seen as he wanted to be seen, as a hands-off benefactor. He has relied on this. He's opened a door that can't be shut.

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Eric Mill @konklone.com · 24/02/2025

There's been a very clear trend on Signal of people changing their names to their initials. While I understand the instinct, I recommend against doing this. It doesn't help you, and it's working against our collective interests.

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Eric Mill @konklone.com · 26/01/2025

The firing of over a dozen inspectors general is a huge deal that impacts more than tech and security: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... But I want to give props to Mark Greenblatt, the Interior IG and a Trump appointee, for his work to puncture dangerous federal cybersecurity myths. (1/4)

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Trump ousts at least 15 independent inspectors general in late-night purge

The dismissals appeared to violate federal law, which requires Congress to receive 30 days’ notice of any intent to fire a Senate-confirmed inspector general.

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Eric Mill @konklone.com · 23/01/2025

In more wholesome (personal) news, I'm going to go to Boston in April for @sudokucon.bsky.social, a new small event that's spun out of the amazing logic puzzle community that Cracking the Cryptic helped create over the last few years. Let me know if you're going too! sudokucon.com/about

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SudokuCon

Official website for SudokuCon

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Eric Mill @konklone.com · 22/01/2025

I regret every .io domain I ever registered. So expensive, was only passingly trendy, and is explicitly controlled by a geopolitical entity I have no affiliation with. Why did I do that??

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Eric Mill @konklone.com · 03/01/2025

There really just shouldn't be a presidential inauguration fund at all. That concept in American politics should go away.

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Eric Mill @konklone.com · 30/12/2024

I have a tradition at the end of the year to post ~10 games from that year that I loved and want to share. I bet at least a few will be new to you. 2024 was full of delightful and surprising games. Let me tell you about them!! (Links are to Steam, some are on console too.) 1/

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