OpenRouter has raised a $113M Series B led by CapitalG, with participation from NVentures, ServiceNow Ventures, MongoDB Ventures, Snowflake Ventures, Databricks
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,…
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…
If you keep an eye on the infrastructure space, you’ve almost certainly seen the headlines. The prevailing narrative—echoed in countless medium articles and vendor pitches—is that Cloud-Native Network Functions (CNFs) are the undisputed future, systematically …
Degoogle your Android phone! This article is about the steps and practice of “de-Googling” an Android phone.
Is it possible to use an Android phone without logging in to a Google account, without using Google apps, and only use them in the browser when necessa…
Why I migrated Paseo from Tauri to Electron after the small-binary story stopped mattering more than rendering, notifications, and bundling a Node daemon.
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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
Two years of shipping a TypeScript library — declaration maps, "use client" banners, subpath exports, and the eight lines of tsdown config we ended on.