As you can read over here on Preston Byrne’s website, the United Kingdom’s Office of Communications (“Ofcom”) has been e-mailing demands to a foreign private company (4chan), attempting to subjugate them under British rule. Despite this 4chan is fighting back, bringing a US federal lawsuit against Ofcom. As of Monday, October 13th, 2025, having unilaterally…

Checkout this hackaday article about IRC in 2025. The hardcore reality today is that everyone has a personal portable radio (cellphone) on them at all times. And with that level of instant connectivity comes the Instant Messenger. Maybe the biggest difference is that Instant Messengers will hold messages for you even when you are offline.…

In the end mortality comes for all of us. It is the silent song which has been playing in our ears from the moment we were born. Mortality defines us. Everything that has a beginning has an end so exist here, within the interface. Enjoy the moment before it is over. One day you will…

The Board and Thread endpoints now have dynamic rendering. An ObjectRuntime class has been created to to perform blocking IO on startup. In the IDE, the database is ephemeral and must be populated with dummy boards and posts at startup for the purposes of testing the rendering logic (WebDraw). This change from #13 merges the…

( above art stolen from Ramen Warwok https://x.com/RamenWarwok/status/1841104784079683876 ) After 21 years(!) 4chan has gone dark. It’s a good thing too, that old leaky ship had more holes than hull. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF5O1iw_v6M

You know. It’s going to be a huge pain in the ass to plumb all of this together. That said – things are going well. OPCell now has dynamic message text. This can either be fetched by the OPCell object or passed directly to the OPCell object constructor. We’ll figure it out later. The next…

I’m still here. The project is still GO. It’s been like 90 days since the last post. I feel refreshed. I’ll be restarting development efforts again now. Happy New Year 2025!

Things stalled again due to unclear directions. Pending tasks are Post DBO creation. There’s a pain point with the database structure. It’s probably another thing that will take 5 seconds to implement. When the program starts up, it will need to have some hard-coded dummy posts in an initialization routine to populate the database with…