Recent content from Bevan Philip
The home screen is the primary substrate through which you interact with notifications. New notifications, and high priority (as delineated by the operating system) notifications are displayed here. Notifications you’ve already seen once disappear below the fold, requiring a deliberate scroll to see. Of course, you don’t tend to do so. It is whatever that is visible to you that you consciously…
Were a generation of students misled?
How game developers and players perceive a game differently.
Nostalgic retrospection on a Minecraft adventure
CYBERSHOKE is a large CS2 community server provider (see my previous post for a hint of their size ). One of their gimmicks has been “optimising” the performance of the game, as the game leaves a lot to be desired on this front. They recently raised the point that CS2 does not engage in occlusion culling: not rendering objects and players outside of the viewable distance. The predecessor, CS:GO,…
An examination of the mess that is the CS2 server browser.
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. While this was a soft brick - only happened when playing the game, and it would fix itself after exiting the game - it was incredibly frustrating to run into. Here is what I learned and…
Some notes from my experience in recapturing my childhood
Cursor, Claude Code & Cline all have different formats for writing reusable instructions for agents that are automatically embedded into requests. Claude Code takes a file called CLAUDE.md with a variety of directory configurations. Cursor used to be a file called .cursorrules , but is now a folder called .cursor/rules , with the rules being individual “MDC” 1 files. Cline supports .clinerules (or…
Stop clogging up my NetNewsWire
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. Despite the readership of this website probably hovering around ~0, this has been a nice, quiet place to put things I’m proud of online. But as with anything, this site has evolved over time, and has probably had the biggest change in content philosophy over the past…
Some personal learnings from trying vibe coding.
It’s quite hard to relive history on reddit. I wanted to write a piece about “2015 CS esports”, and one of the best ways to do so would be to view a “top of 2015” for /r/GlobalOffensive. Sadly, I couldn’t find anything for this (at least not via a quick Google search). The closest I can find is rereddit , which is a platform feature to find the top posts for the entire website for a particular…
Understanding the nuances on why game developers have chosen to go to kernel to defend their games
Thinking about how aim coaching might be a stepping stone to more advanced coaching
Thoughts on why Simple Mobile Tools ended up being sold to an Israeli app emporium
A look to a more profitable, and competitive environment for Counter-Strike esports.
Looking a bit wider than NA reveals some common trends.
A Look at Maps, Round Differentials, and Kill Differentials to evaluate how close Valve Major events have been over the years.
An analysis of Counter-Strike rounds over the years.
Reflections on the month prior to lockdown.