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We've Seen This Movie Before

I’ve been sitting on this comparison for a while, trying to decide if it was too obvious to write about. Then a good friend of mine DM’d me on Slack about “every vibe coding tech bro is now vibe coding a dashboard to ‘monitor the global situation’. my feed is full of it.” with some screenshots of the kind of stuff that’s popping up everywhere. And it just reminded me; I’m not imagining this. ...

March 19, 2026 · 10 min · 2111 words · map[email:me@wynandpieters.dev name:Wynand Pieters]
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I've abandoned the PC Master Race

PC Master Race? I’ve always been a multi-platform gamer. I’ve always loved collecting consoles, and have had a varied gaming experience over many generations. But I considered myself a PC gamer first. I’d always go back to PC whenever I could. And I LOVED upgrading my PC, and modding my PC, and overclocking my PC. It may not sound like much now, but I remember the first time I had a stable 5Ghz on i7-2600K on air cooling. It. Was. Awesome. ...

November 4, 2025 · 9 min · 1752 words · map[email:me@wynandpieters.dev name:Wynand Pieters]
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My Thoughts on the Switch 2 Nintendo Direct

The Switch 2 Nintendo Direct: My Unfiltered Thoughts The Switch 2 Nintendo Direct seems to have people up in arms about things. There are a lot of comments flying around, and I have some opinions on them - some of them gonna be unpopular, some I hope will be a voice of reason (at least from my perspective), and others I’m just downright annoyed about… Keep in mind that my opinions are informed by my own experiences, which includes over 30 years of gaming (console, PC and handheld) and over 20 years in the software industry, with only the last 3 or so having any kind of direct gaming industry involvement (if solo indie dev counts). ...

April 3, 2025 · 6 min · 1102 words · map[email:me@wynandpieters.dev name:Wynand Pieters]