I just finished watching The Social Dilemma, which ironically enogh has been making the rounds on social media, and would love to share my two cents on the topic.

Today marks the day that I pull the plug on the GCP instance that has been the host of this blog for about 3.5 years. The reason why is simple - GCP made changes in how billing of external IP addresses works, meaning I wouldn’t be able to uphold one of the core principles behind this website - that everything runs in a free tier.

The latest addition to play.kilumanga.com is a view of currently active Borderlands 2 SHiFT keys. For those of you who have neither played a Borderlands game nor know what a SHiFT key is: basically, it’s a key (code) that you can use in a game to get a number of in-game (golden) keys, which in turn allow you to collect pretty good in-game items.

The latest addition to play.kilumanga.com, apart from minor quality improvements, is a map page. It demonstrates geolocation using the browser.

As a natural next step to publishing a Steam Web API library to Maven Central, I have now implemented login with Steam OpenID to play.kilumanga.com. At the time of writing this, it’s basically a POC of the authentication/validation flow, where the end result is a view that shows your Steam ID.