Weeknotes #78 (May 02, 2026)
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Things I found, read, did, and produced this past week.
Things I consumed
- The 2026 Steam Controller is on sale this coming Monday, May 4th. It takes a lot of the controls from the Steam Deck and brings it to a controller form-factor for $99. It is the first of 3 new hardware products from Valve expected to launch this year, to be followed up by the Steam Machine and the Steam Frame.
- An Update on GitHub Availability, a post from the GitHub CTO going over some of the technicalites behind some major service disruptions, including one where merges were being reverted unintentionally. The thing I've analyzed is from the public eye, GitHub's main push has been GitHub Copilot which is leading to this higher load on their systems, so it feels like this is a blatant footgun, but as well, some of these bugs seem to beyond just load issues, so I gotta wonder if it is just the engineering culture at GitHub that is starting to stray due to no direct focus other than GitHub Copilot.
- Related, GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing which means you'll be paying the API prices for all of the various models starting June 1st. Especially for larger models like GPT 5.5 or Claude Opus, using them from GitHub Copilot is going to cost a lot more given GitHub was previously subsidizing the various models such that the price you paid was lower than the raw API pricing. Curious to see if this change will see a harsh plateau or drop in usage for individual subscriptions.