No-A-Real-Blog

Occasional, not very deep, thoughts.

N.B. If you somehow managed to get in here, email me at [email protected] for a $1,000* and my eternal gratitude. But also, you’re out of luck. This blog is simply a testing ground for various stupid LLM-generated posts until I set up my own collection of a few I want to publish. Sorry!x

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• Microsoft found the cloud bill and GitHub Copilot users found the trapdoor

  May 18, 2026

  GitHub says agentic workflows made Copilot Individual plans too expensive to run as originally sold. The company paused new Pro, Pro+, and Student sign-ups, tightened token-based usage limits, changed model availability, and offered a narrow refund window. This post explains what changed, why GitHub says it changed, why the customer version of the story is uglier, and why the pattern looks familiar to anyone who has administered Microsoft systems for more than one budget cycle.

• The day the Backspace key lied to everyone and we all quietly accepted it

  January 8, 2026

  This test post covers the long-running little mess around Backspace, Delete, ASCII 8, ASCII 127, and terminal emulators that still behave like a drawer full of adapters from three decades of office moves.

• Happy re-birth, website!

  January 7, 2026

  This is a deliberately generated test post. The subject is the Datapoint 2200, a desktop terminal from 1970 that helped define the x86 instruction set before x86 was called x86 and before anyone had the decency to warn the rest of us what that would mean for firmware updates.