29 April 2026

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Cursor Camp

A campground for your cursor

Raspberry Pi Connect may control Windows soon

Support for remote controlling Windows PCs may be added to Raspberry Pi Connect, Raspberry Pi's free remote access service. When they announced Pi Connect in 2024, I speculated the service was launched in response to RealVNC's sluggish adoption of Wayland, lea…

How ChatGPT serves ads. Here's the full attribution loop.

OpenAI's ad platform has two halves. On the ChatGPT side, the backend injects structured single_advertiser_ad_unit objects into the conversation SSE stream while the model is responding. On the merchant side, a tracking SDK called OAIQ runs in the visitor's br…

Before GitHub

Open Source before GitHub was reputation-driven and full of friction

10Gb Ethernet: what I had to (re)learn

Wired networking in the home and small offices has been pretty stagnant for ages, so upgrading my home from 2.5Gb ethernet to 10Gb meant I had to (re)learn a few things.

Anatomy of an Article

Some open secrets about what you're reading

Stop Wasting Brainpower | Yusuf Aytas

Cognitive load, not hours, kills productivity. Cut distractions, tame complexity, and free brainpower for real engineering work.

Prompts are like prayers

I have been feeling a bit off about the recent developments in the ai/tech sector. That I wasn't able to pin point the reason for my unease, despite trying to write about it, irked me even more.

You should try contra dancing

a story of middle school Ben • a not-very-illuminating description of the mechanics • flow, joy, and community • the antidote to the rest of life • how to try contra

Why Multi Window Multi Burn Rate SLO Alerting Sucks!

Service Level Objectives (SLOs) are great! Alerts based on SLOs are great! Alerts based on SLOs promise to reduce noise by only alerting on true service degradations, reducing noise and alert fatigue. Everyone uses the multi-window multi-burn-rate (MWMB) metho…

The Moat or the Commons — Warman Notes

American capital financed AI on the assumption it would be the next great monopoly. Open-weight models are commoditizing the capability that monopoly was supposed to protect. The collision between the two now defines the direction of the U.S. AI industry — and…

Text is the New Binary | Andrea Baccega

Software increasingly ships as prose meant to be interpreted by someone else's LLM. From Karpathy's wiki gist to gh skill install, even installation is now a paragraph. The same critique that pushes Karpathy beyond RAG hints at where the dust will eventually s…

Why We Measure Tickets, Not Problems Prevented — Vivian Voss

Productivity is what one can count. The decision not to deploy on Friday afternoon does not log. The engineer who prevents three outages closes no tickets that quarter. The one who ships forty-seven is promoted. The dashboard goes up. The system goes down. The…