I have been pulling back on my social media presance and that isn't by mistake, it's honestly a relief that I made that decision because I literally obsessed over metrics and it was putting my mental health at risk.

If you'vr followed me long enough, you'd know that I used to spend a lot of time on YouTube and Twitter posting content and then about 2.5 years ago something in my head just switched.

While I have been making efforts to post more regular content here on the website, and videos on TikTok I haven't made it my driving force because as I have explained many times before, I have a day (well night) job at Amazon as Regulated Waste Coordinator which takes up a lot of free time.

Now I can't say that I don't care about social media, posting, and creating content because that simply isn't the case. A lot of it comes down to motivation. For example if it is something I find interesting, I will write it up or create a video on it (or in some cases both). But unlike other creators, I am not going to make a post or video just to make one either.

What this means going forward, a quick reminder

As a reminder, the current content schedule is at least once a month, if that hasn't been establied already. That allows me to gather content up that would be relevant to my audience and would also allow for longer form written posts to be completed in a reasonable time.

Guides and reviews can be a multi-month process and are not subject to the same rules. News is posted on an as needed basis, and the same rule applies to video content. If either one is necessary, a post or video will be made and shared on all my social media platforms.

There is NEVER a guarantee of content

I cannot and will not guarantee content releases simply because of quotas or viewerrship/readership needs. I say that because there has been a little bit of confusion on how that works.

As I stated above, this venture does not generate revenue for me, and is just a project, nothing more. Unless someone is interested in sponsoring CORE, it is not my first priority.

It's a new month, and that means it's time for our monthly update post about changes, improvements, and bugfixes. This month is largely focusing on bugfixes and minor improvements and since we missed May, some of those changes will show up here.

What's new

We've refined the user interface to feature a more "drawer" like experience. Instead of navigating to an individual page and having the same layout across multiple pages, we opted for a more simplistic appearance that requires less maintenance down the road if there were to be a design change

We've also changed the branding a little bit to emphasize that CORE is maintained by Iian Kehn. The original plan was to make it a "Sevan" brand, but after testing we opted to revert back to Iian Kehn instead.

What's fixed

• - We fixed an issue where on some browsers the navigation didn't look properly
• - We fixed an issue where some pages didn't update properly after a new post

What's still broken

On mobile, the index navigation overlaps the header text, we are working on a fix and will likely be rolled out before July's release.

While everyone else is chasing the Linux high, some of us have been running it for a while now as a daily driver. I'm more then happy to see people joining the community and being a part of something a lot bigger, but at the same trime, I can't help but feel like people are changing ecosystems for the wrong reasons.

I switched to Linux about 2 years ago and have been daily driving it ever since then. For me it wasn't about how evil Microsoft has become, or how Apple is literally using its ecosystem to lock people into using their devices and no one else's. For me it was a personal choice. I didnt' feel that my workflow required the use of Windows anymore, and installed Linux instead.

My distribution of choice? Debian. It's stable and doesn't have all the extras that come with Ubuntu, Mint or Zorin. I just want a barebone distribution with GNOME and that's it. My problem with Ubuntu is it's hit or miss on whether it will work or not, I've never been a big fan of Mint, and Zorin is fine, but like Mint it's nothing special.

Fedora has typically been my go to because I've used them since the beginning, but it just didn't feel right. There is wider support for Debian with .deb packages then there is for .rpm packages and that was the selling point for me, and considering I've spent a little longer configuring servers with Debian/Ubuntu it only made sense.

The bigger question is if you are getting into Linux, what should you use, and the answer is really going to depend on what you plan to do with it. If you're a gamer, something like Bazzite or CachyOS would be perfect. If you are a general user, Ubuntu, Pop!_OS or Linux Mint might be a good option. If you're a developer looking for bleeding edge tools and repos, Fedora might be your thing. Or if you want to customize your OS just the way you like it, something like Arch might be the thing for you.

Like with any version of Linux, there is always a curve. It's not always as simple as point and click, sometimes things go wrong and you have to use a terminal to fix it, and if you're okay with that then you're on the right path, but if you're not technically inclined, maybe using Linux isn't the right fit because even the most user friendly versions of Linux still require some technical knowledge.

But at the end of the day it all comes down to how much you want to get away from macOS or Windows.

I have been holding this post back because over the past two weeks there has been a lot in motion, and I was still training and getting used to my new position within Amazon.

If you don't regularly follow me on social media, this is likely going to be news to you. On April 20, 2026, I began my new role as a HazWaste Coordinator (L3) at my local Amazon Fulfillment Center. This change has been a long time in the making and something I have been working towards (at least in the respect of a tier 3 role) since just a few months after I joined Amazon.

I chose to accept the role as a HazWaste Coordinater at Amazon because I believe in what we do in Amazon, promoting not only good practice dealing with products being disposed of in a proper manner, but in the Safety team as a whole. I have always focused on my efforts to provide a safe workplace, no matter where I have worked.

With over 15 years of overall Safety training, and experience, I believe I can provide a value to the team that I am working for, and I am eternally greatful for the opportunity to be a part of a compassionate team of people who also believe in the same.

I will keep you all posted on my progress throughout my journey.

The Windows Insider program has always been a hodgepodge of different branches that were all collectively trying to complete the same task, but never really had a clear identity when it came to what branch was trying to accomplish what.

Simplifying the noise

According to a a blog post from the Windows Insider Team the company is working to streamline the amount of branches currently available in the program. Now the company has chosen to go with two testing branches Experimental and Beta.

The Experimental branch is going to merge the current Dev and Canary channels which largely focus on features that may or may not come to production versions of Windows.

As for the Beta branch it will focus on actual Windows releases and features that Microsoft actually plans on releasing to the general public.

Microsoft states that this rollout will be coming in the next few weeks and users will be able to change what channel they are in. Users who are in the Dev and Canary channel will be rolled into the Experimental channel and Beta will remain in the same Beta channel.

We launched the new CMS called Plasma at the beginning of March and have been working on and off on the development of the platform. We've made great progress on the frontend UI but are still working deeply on the backend integrations.

Focusing on stability

Effective April 11, 2026, we will be focusing our efforts on building the core of Plasma to be more stable and agile so that we can move the application in the event of a future failure. The events of the last outage has given us an opportunity to shift our focus and develop an overall better product.

Feature drops

We still plan on dropping new features as time progresses as they become available. Because this release is primarily focused on stability, we also want to ensure that any features that we scheduled to launch with the 18.0 release are also stable and ready for general use. This may delay the public release from it's originally scheduled timeframe to a more reasonable summer timeframe.

What about videos?

In a post that was publishjed before the server outage, we mentioned that we were working on a platform to host our own content. We are still working on the backend for that. As of right now, it is not yet available for use, we are working with our CDN, CacheFly to tie up some loose ends and hope to make an announcement soon regarding the public beta.

On March 30, 2026 we were performing regular server maintenance on the system that was hosting the website ran into a catastrophic hardware failure resulting in immediate data loss to the Operating System drive.

The Root Cause

After careful investigation, we determined that a misconfigured virtual machine was the result of a system-wide failure. We have since re-imaged the system and restored all core services to the network and deployed an additional server for hosting the website to prevent further action in the future from occuring.

"After careful evaluation of our core systems, we have implemented new mitigations to prevent future occurances of this issue. We have adjusted hardware and software configurations to prevent such actions in the future. This is a classic example of what not to do when deploying systems, and we deeply apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused." A spokseperson said from CORE Systems IO said.

Resolution

This issue has been fully addressed and you should be able to use the website normally, if any future issues occur, please feel free to reach out to our team.