Confirmed within hours of last entry’s posting: Microsoft is buying GitHub for $7.5 billion. The two-week aftermath validated both ends of the spectrum. GitLab logged record imports (exit ramps got traffic), while the majority stayed put on the Satya-trust thesis, and new CEO Nat Friedman’s AMA (“we’re not buying GitHub to change it; we’re buying it because we don’t want anyone else to break it”) was the right message competently delivered. My pre-announcement take holds; grading myself correct and moving on with appropriate suspicion of my own calibration streak. The deeper pattern for the file: the 2010s’ defining acquisitions are all platform-adjacency buys, LinkedIn (professional graph), GitHub (developer ground), WhatsApp (message ground). The giants stopped buying products; they buy terrain.
E3 delivered the trailer of the show and maybe the decade: Cyberpunk 2077, from the Witcher 3 studio, finally showing gameplay-adjacent footage after a five-year tease. The hype is now fully unbounded. CD Projekt Red has banked more benefit-of-the-doubt than any studio alive, and the No Man’s Sky clause (“unmanaged expectations compound like debt”) is officially on watch. Release date: none given. Smart.
And the World Cup is on in Russia, already delivering: Ronaldo hung a hat trick on Spain in the group stage’s first classic (that free kick), Iceland (population: a mid-size tech company) held Messi’s Argentina, and Mexico beat Germany, the defending champs, sending Mexico City into literal seismic readings. The office bracket is live; the group chat’s German engineer has gone quiet in a way I recognize and fear.
TIL: Man City completed the centurions season, by the way, 100 points, and the title felt so inevitable it barely made the group chat. Dynasty fatigue is real: dominance without variance isn’t drama, it’s infrastructure. Nobody blogs about the load balancer that always works. (I do. But nobody else.)