https://micr0.dev Tech, Privacy, Climate, and Accessibility en-us Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://micr0.dev/blog/html/a_glass_of_water.html A glass of water is what I drink while writing a blog post. But when AI drinks a glass of water, it's a crisis. You've seen the headlines. "ChatGPT uses a bottle of water for every 20 questions!" But when we talk about the water AI uses, we include training, data centers, cooling systems. So why don't we do the same for humans? Let's do the math and compare fairly. Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://micr0.dev/blog/html/a_glass_of_water.html https://micr0.dev/blog/html/untitled_eyes.html I noticed them first when I was driving to my friend's house. Flock cameras. At one point I counted 58 on a single drive. They're moving from standalone poles to traffic infrastructure. I grew up in Belarus. I've seen what this infrastructure enables when the switch gets flipped. And now I'm watching America build the same thing and call it safety. The first blog post in a series called radio free america. Fri, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://micr0.dev/blog/html/untitled_eyes.html https://micr0.dev/blog/html/custom_codec_for_stormworks.html It started, as these things always do, with a question nobody asked: could I stream video into Stormworks? What followed was weeks of custom compression algorithms, delta encoding, palette quantization, audio sync, and more debugging than I want to think about. And yeah, I got it working. Video playback. In a boat game. With audio sync. Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://micr0.dev/blog/html/custom_codec_for_stormworks.html https://micr0.dev/blog/html/IP_is_Bullshit.html I just ordered a $25 development board from China that has an ESP32, 4G LTE, GPS, battery management, and open-source everything. It ships with full schematics. The company WANTS you to hack it, modify it, build on it, to do literally everything and anything to it. Sat, 25 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://micr0.dev/blog/html/IP_is_Bullshit.html https://micr0.dev/blog/html/gradient.html I've been thinking about social media a lot lately. Not in the way most people think about it, scrolling, posting, whatever. I mean thinking about the fundamental structure of how these platforms work and why they all seem to fail in their own special ways. Big tech social media is surveillance. That's not hyperbole, that's just what it is. Every click tracked, every interaction analyzed, every piece of data sold or used to predict your behavior. Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://micr0.dev/blog/html/gradient.html https://micr0.dev/blog/html/complaint_state.html When you don't know what a state is doing, not only must you assume that the state is doing what is best for them. But also that they are doing everything they can, to know what you are doing. Who is the state? Who is they? If you don't know who they are, they are hiding. Wed, 09 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://micr0.dev/blog/html/complaint_state.html