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Itch.io games and controller support.

You have sites now that let you debug microcontrollers on your browser, super cool.

Same thing but with firmware updates in the browser. Cross platform, replaced a mess of ugly broken vendor tools.

While that's pretty convenient, I'm worried about what happens when the vendor shuts down the website. "Ugly broken vendor tools" can be run forever in a VM of an old system, but a website would be gone forever unless it's purely client-side and someone archived it.

Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

Your micro-controllers should use open standards for their debugging interface and not force people to use the vendor website.

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