The (not so) private diary of Qiaeru.
Tech, video games, and a few other confessions…
Latest articles from the blog
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La Bataille de Gaulle, my Bastille Day with the General
Five hours and sixteen minutes in the dark with Charles de Gaulle, on a day France offered both a World Cup semifinal and a red heat alert.
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GPT-5.6 Sol, the sun that throws shade at Fable
OpenAI ships GPT-5.6 and its flagship Sol right as Anthropic prepares to pull Fable 5 from its subscription plans. The timing is nobody's accident.
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Xbox cuts jobs, the Fed hires its CEO to study jobs
Xbox is cutting 3,200 jobs the same week its CEO joined a Federal Reserve task force on productivity and employment. You can't make this stuff up.
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SGDQ 2026, my speedrunning World Cup
Summer Games Done Quick 2026 just wrapped up in Minneapolis, so let me explain why speedrunning impresses me more than the World Cup ever will.
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Fable 5 Is Back, the Government in the Loop
Anthropic switches Fable 5 back on worldwide after export controls lift, but the accuser turns out to be Amazon and the government is now in the loop.
