Bevan Philip

To a lot of people, the eagerness of the GPT 5+ models to invoke skills would be considered a benefit.

Claude Sonnet 3.5 was my personal inflection point for LLMs.

The home screen is the primary substrate through which you interact with notifications.

It feels weird to truly understand the terms of your loan nearly a decade after it started, and nearly three years after you started repaying it.

Something feels wrong with Counter-Strike 2.

On October 4th 2025, kurtjmac completed his fourteen and a half year long journey to walk to the Far Lands in Minecraft.

CYBERSHOKE is a large CS2 community server provider (see my previous post for a hint of their size).

For those who enjoy Counter-Strike community servers, the situation in Counter-Strike 2 is rather dire.

In a sweet irony, given I published a post about Evaluating kernel level anti-cheats as a consumer, some aspect of VALORANT, likely Vanguard, ended up soft bricking my internet whenever I tried to play the game.

If you’re interested in revisiting Minecraft from the Beta era, here are some notes.

Cursor, Claude Code & Cline all have different formats for writing reusable instructions for agents that are automatically embedded into requests.

As a subscriber to The Verge & WIRED, it is rather annoying that the RSS feeds that both provide are littered with product recommendation listicles, designed to generate revenue through affiliate links.

Just under 10 years ago was when I first registered this domain, but I’ve had some form of website on the internet for 13 years.

YNAB is my budgeting tool of choice.

It’s quite hard to relive history on reddit.

Cheating is an increasingly endemic problem to multiplayer video games on PCs, and as a response, we’ve seen the “Cambrian explosion” of anti-cheats designed to combat this situation.

Recently, CS professionals STYKO and EliGE have shared the fact that they have employed the services of aim coaches.

Simple Mobile Tools are a set of open-source “shareware” apps.

The mundanity of seeing online CS during the pandemic has electrified a transition that was already happening - the end of tier 1 online events.

North American Counter-Strike is dead, or in the middle of dying.

CS:GO Majors are supposed to be a raucous celebration of the game.

Counter-Strike events seem to have less energy than ever.

Originally written on 2021-04-15, re-written in 2023.