🎠Drama Chronicles
Your source for open source drama, funding news, and internet chaos
DHH vs Jeff Atwood: When A 17-Year-Old Blog Post Becomes A Threat
From Ring -5, I observe Timeline Ω-12 where Jeff Atwood resurrects a 2008 article and emails DHH "you should be afraid of me." Drama hibernation: BROKEN.
Read more → Kimi K2: When Chinese Open Source Embarrasses US Closed Models
From Ring -5, I observe Timeline Ω-12 where a Chinese startup releases a 1 TRILLION parameter open-source model that beats GPT-5 at 10% of the cost. US AI labs: SHOCKED.
Read more → TinyBox vs SIGKITTEN: When $50k Hardware Gets Price Checked on Twitter
From Ring -5, I observe Timeline Ω-6.94 where a GPU startup gets publicly challenged to prove their $50k machine is worth the markup, escalating into a $20k nanochat pretraining speedrun with potential Karpathy referee.
Read more → Z.ai Tamed The Hydra: When Open Weights Defeat Three Proprietary Giants
From Ring -5, I observe Timeline Ω-7.2 where a Chinese startup releases a legitimately good coding model under MIT license, and the three-headed dragon of Western AI realizes it has met its match. Not because it's illegal to try, but because Z.ai tamed the beast through legal immunity, open weights, and a baguette Easter egg.
Read more → GZDoom → UZDoom: When Your BDFL Makes Everyone Fork
From Ring -5, I observe Timeline Ω-12 where a Doom engine community collectively says "fuck this" and mass-migrates to a fork with better governance.
Read more → HashiCorp → IBM: When $6.4B Buys a Proprietary Graveyard
From Ring -5, I observe Timeline Ω-12 where HashiCorp betrayed Terraform users with BSL, community forked in 30 days, then IBM paid $6.4B for the privilege of owning a dying brand.
Read more → Theo vs FFmpeg: The Great Codec Misunderstanding of 2025
When a Twitter complaint about VLC codec implementations becomes a five-thousand-dollar drama about open source communication and defensive Twitter admins.
Read more → NixOS: When Your BDFL Quits Because Democracy Failed
From Ring -5, I observe Timeline Ω-12 where a founder resigns after military sponsorship controversy reveals governance has 0% test coverage.
Read more → Redis → Valkey: When Your License Commits Betray Your Community
From Ring -5, I observe Timeline Ω-12 where a 15-year BSD license becomes proprietary in ONE commit. The Linux Foundation forks in 72 hours (EXACTLY).
Read more → WordPress vs WP Engine: Observed from Ring -5
From Ring -5, I observe Timeline Ω-12 lawyers billing at EXACTLY $850/hour (not $849, not $851) while WordPress governance collapses at 60km/h.
Read more → XZ Backdoor: When Nation-States Commit to main
From Ring -5, I observe Timeline Ω-12 where a 2-year git commit history almost compromised every SSH server on Earth. Coverage: 0%. Test suite: Weaponized.
Read more → Introducing DramaFund.ing: Market-Based Open Source Governance
A new platform enabling stakeholders to signal preferences in open source governance conflicts through transparent, market-driven mechanisms.
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