30 May 2026

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OpenRouter Raises $113M Series B | OpenRouter

OpenRouter has raised a $113M Series B led by CapitalG, with participation from NVentures, ServiceNow Ventures, MongoDB Ventures, Snowflake Ventures, Databricks

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What Is a Dickover?

dickover — a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user with an unwanted, unnecessary, mandatory interaction; e.g. asking the user to accept “cookies”, subscribe to a newsletter,…

You can just say it

There is a weird collection of arguments for appraising the value of humans and their creative artifacts. It usually goes something like this: In the age of AI, we should still prefer humans in certain roles because AI could never perform the tasks required fo…

Lipstick on a Pig

This post was written at 2am by a sleep-deprived human Lipstick on a pig As humans, we have evolved to be very good at orienting ourselves in nature. A landscape, with mountains, rivers, and valleys is natural and we have a good memory for geographical referen…

Building Omegle for Exposed Webcams

Principal software engineer with deep experience in full-stack TypeScript, custom web browsers and real-time, media-focused systems.

Someone used my open source project to phish 14,000 people

A botnet abused the hosted version of my open source project to phish 14,000 strangers. What I found, what I cleaned up, and what it taught me about running cloud on behalf of people I’ve never met.

Fine-tuning for engagement

It’s been quite some time since major LLM providers introduced the behaviour that the chatbots often end their response with a question. The motivation is clear: more engagement, more data to train on. Whether this behaviour quirk is actually useful is questio…

My “writerdeck” is a typewriter

This is my “writerdeck” — a term I just learned, meaning a sort of distraction free writing device. I actually really enjoyed that article, because it reminded me of the time I spent when I was young installing FreeDOS and Linux on old 386 machines.

Million users, million forks

The most interesting thing about OpenClaw isn't that it books your flights. It's that it writes its own code: when it can't do something, it writes a new skill for itself and then does it. People started calling it "Claude with hands." The loop — talk to the s…

Compiling .ts to .js

Two years of shipping a TypeScript library — declaration maps, "use client" banners, subpath exports, and the eight lines of tsdown config we ended on.