Today, the blog tore open. Literally.

We started writing today’s blog post like any other. The plan was to whip up a little piece about coffee — how the world might be saved if everyone just drank enough espresso, cappuccino, or even just plain filter coffee or cocoa. Tea is good too. Especially herbal tea on a freezing slush morning.

But back to the point — right after the first paragraph, something weird started happening.

There was a strange shadow on the edge of the page. At first we thought it was just a dumb background image. But no. It started to grow. Like the paper was tearing — right there on the screen. And then it appeared:

From the tear, a strange message emerged…

01101001 01100110 00100000 00101000 01110100 01110010 01110101 01110100
01101000 00100000 00100001 00100101 00100001 00111101 00111101 00100000
01101000 01101001 01100100 01100100 01100101 01101110 00101001 00100000
01111011 00100000 01110011 01111001 01110011 01110100 01100101 01101101
00101110 01100011 01110010 01100001 01110011 01101000 00101000 00101001
00111011 00100000 01110011 01101000 01101000 01101000 00101100 00100000
01110100 01110100 01100001 01101101 01100001 00100000 01101111 01101100
01101001 00100000 01100010 01110101 01100111 01101001
if (truth !== hidden) { system.crash(); } // shhh.. be ware..
Message meaning: 'If truth isn’t hidden, the system crashes.'

At first, we had to double-check whether someone had just dropped an early April Fool’s joke. But this was no prank. This was… an ancient programming invocation.

We still don’t know who left it. But if anyone ever asks why this blog occasionally freezes or sends emails to Mars — well, maybe, just maybe, it has something to do with these strange events.