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Seven Operational Practices That Reduce Downtime During Large-Scale Cloud Incide...
High-scale systems fail in many unexpected ways that you would never have designed for. Mitigate First, Root Cause Later: Don't Be...
I Built a Go-Based ngrok Alternative With Zero Dependencies
Built a complete ngrok-like tunnel service in Go in one evening (~3.5 hours of focused coding time). Includes both client CLI and...
The House of G.E.T.S.: A Practical Bypass for the Null-Byte Barrier
Modern secure coding "fixes" often replace one vulnerability with a more dangerous exploit primitive. This deep dive demonstrates...
What Five Years as Software Engineer Taught Me About Titles, Growth, and Saying...
Software Engineer, Joachim, shares his first 5 years in review. Joachim shares his top tips on how to succeed as a software engine...
Legacy Code Deserves More Respect Than We Give It
Software engineers tend to judge older code without understanding its context. Code is only the visible part of the story, but not...
What If Your Enemy Couldn’t Be Seen?
First published in 1932, The Coming of Ku Sui explores themes of invisibility, radio surveillance, and dimensional mystery decades...
Being Likable Is the Fastest Way to Be Forgotten
The Assassination of Marat is the right painting to set the tone for this piece. Most people, when they speak in public, aren’t re...
Outlook vs. Gmail: Choosing the Kind of Email Security Your Business Can Live Wi...
Both Outlook and Gmail offer strong business email security in 2025, but Outlook favors granular control and compliance, while Gma...
Can ChatGPT Outperform the Market? Final Report
This report evaluates a six-month live trading experiment in which a large language model (ChatGPT) managed a micro-cap equity por...
The Markup’s Publishing System Will Now Include Right-Aligned Text: Here's Why
The Markup is a news site that uses WordPress to publish articles. The site recently published an Arabic translation of an article...
The 2:00 AM Crisis: Why Patients are Choosing AI Over Us
A psychiatrist’s look at why patients are choosing AI over traditional care.
