#haunted code

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The Binary Revenant

October 27, 2025 The dead don’t stay buried—especially in the code. The first message came from a dev group chat—one that hadn’t seen activity in nearly a year. “Did you push that last build, Devlin?” The username was A.Kell, same handle as always. But Anton Kell had died in a highway pile-up last March. They’d gone to the funeral. Closed casket. Twenty-three-car wreck. There hadn’t been…

The Binary Revenant

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Digital Echoes

October 26, 2025 – 11:00 PM You think madness makes noise. That it erupts like a virus in the brain, hacking logic in bursts of rage or sorrow. But no — true madness is silent. It waits behind screensavers and idle cursors, one whispering line at a time. I am — I was — a senior developer on the Sentinel platform. A little tool, meant to track user behavior, optimize experience. Harmless, they…

Digital Echoes