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I Found My New Leadership Role Model in Dungeon Crawler Carl
What Carl taught me about empathy, humility, and staying human in a system built to break you
A Chip That Thinks using 7 μW
Most AI research is about making the cortex bigger. This one is about making the spinal cord cheaper.
Don’t Learn To Code. Learn A Trade Instead.
I don’t believe becoming a software engineer is the future anymore. Unless you literally can’t imagine yourself doing anything else…
Linux Memory Had One Maintainer for 26 Years. He Just Quit. Now What?
One person held the code that runs every Android phone, cloud server, and supercomputer for 26 years. On April 21, he posted one message…
Leading Leaders? Shift Your 1:1s from Status to Strategy
There are many articles about how to conduct 1:1s with your reports. Most share the same basic idea: this time belongs to the employee, not…
Firewalls for self-hosters: What they actually control and where they stop
Inbound vs outbound traffic, default-deny thinking, and why a published port is not automatically safe to expose
My Brain Doesn’t Hear Song Lyrics
How can a word-loving writer reconcile this?
The Most Dangerous Book Carl Jung Ever Wrote Sat Hidden in a Bank Vault for 50 Years
He said it was the source of everything. Then he spent the rest of his life making sure no one could read it.
Target Language — Mental Pictures Lead To A Large Vocabulary
If you want an extensive vocabulary in your target language, I highly suggest reading. Not just reading, but compelling content. The type…
I Woke Up at 4:30 AM Every Day for 30 Days — Here Is What Nobody Tells You
Here is what actually happened, from someone who did it & tracked everything.
Google Just Found a Cleaner Legal Way to Take Your Code for Free
Hundreds of developers shipped 6,000 free contributions in a year. The license is still open. They lose access anyway.
I Used Claude Design for UX/UI — What Designers Should Know
This week, I put Claude Design to the test on a real UX/UI project to see what’s possible.
A 32-Year-Old Programmer Worked Until He Didn’t Wake Up
On the morning of November 29, 2025, a Saturday, software developer Gao Guanghui woke up feeling unwell. Despite the discomfort, he told…
Common Misconceptions About Hegel’s Philosophy
On his (life and) dialectic
The One Reason You’re Struggling to Learn a Foreign Language
And no, it’s not about how difficult the language is
$575 Million Founder. 12 Developers. The Product Running 60% of the Cloud.
Shuttleworth sold his company for $575M, sailed to Antarctica, and invited 12 Debian developers to his London flat. Ubuntu shipped six…
AI Finds More Bugs. Linux Gets Less Safe. Creator Drew the Line.
Linux’s private security channel broke. The One had been hiding in the kernel for eight years and nearly slipped through unread.
Embedded C is Dead. Embedded Engineering is NOT.
AI did not come for embedded engineers. It came for the ones who never really were.
Europe Is Really Breaking Up With US Big Tech Now
It’s in full force
FreeRTOS Memory Management Explained: Static vs Dynamic Allocation and Heap Schemes
This is How Memory Allocation is Handled in FreeRTOS Based System!
The Method That Replaces Spec-Driven Development — IDSD
I have been saying Spec-Driven Development is a problem, and why. This is the first time I show the fix, and it ends somewhere the…
LinkedIn Is a Scam
Nobody Wants to Admit It
Unraveling Multithreading in C
The C language is probably one of the best creations of mankind. C is legendary for its speed and raw memory control. But out of the box…
How to Live Fully Without Turning Your Life Into a Constant Self-Improvement Project
The Exhaustion of Constant Self-Correction
Language Learning — Easy Reading After Intensive Reading
Something I like to do after finishing a long book is to switch over to a book with fewer pages and an “easy read”. For example, I’m still…
Nietzsche Warned Us. He Figured Out The Most Terrifying Secret of Life
Most people are not ready to pay this price.
Day 13: I Was Confused About Linux Networking Until I Learned This
Part 1 of Linux Basic Networking
NFC meets LoRa — using Long Range Communication for Access Control Systems with ESP32
This is not a tutorial, but rather a proof-of-concept article in which I will demonstrate how to combine two technologies. The first is…
What The Tech?! The TOR Network
A US naval research lab project, TOR would change the dynamic around privacy vs surveillance.
Mixing C and C++ with the STM32 microcontroller
The STM32 world defaults to C, but sometimes you yearn for the sophistication of C++. The good news is that you can have both — in the same…
The Most Annoying Rule of English Grammar That We Put Up With
English teachers have a lot to answer for
The 37x Rule. A Successful Life is Hard Until You Build Systems Like This
Munger's "lollapalooza effect."
The 7 Types of Wives According to Ancient Texts
And Why They Still Exist Today
Should You Take Langauge Tests To Prove How Good You Are?
If you don't need to take a language test for citizenship or a job, I think language tests are not necessary to prove to yourself that you…
Claude Code Without Subscription: A Proxy That Actually Works
A small open-source proxy points Claude Code at NVIDIA NIM, Kimi, GLM, MiniMax, and friends. Zero subscription. Two-minute setup. Honest…
Claude Code Without Subscription: A Proxy That Actually Works
A small open-source proxy points Claude Code at NVIDIA NIM, Kimi, GLM, MiniMax, and friends. Zero subscription. Two-minute setup. Honest…
You Don't Need to Get Better Every Day: You Need to Do This Instead
The lie behind endless self-improvement and the way to a more meaningful and relaxed life.
The One Thing You Have to Ask Yourself In Life (According to Carl Jung)
Yet not everybody should answer it
This Socrates Quote Sums Up The Strange Paradox of Life
Most people spend their entire trying solve this.
8 Backend Skills Every Developer Should Master in 2026
Master the core backend skills that help you build scalable, secure, and real world applications beyond basic coding.
8 Backend Skills Every Developer Should Master in 2026
Master the core backend skills that help you build scalable, secure, and real world applications beyond basic coding.
FTP Hacking: How to Exploit Port 21 Vulnerabilities for Penetration Testing
Penetration testing (pentesting) of FTP (File Transfer Protocol) involves assessing and exploiting vulnerabilities within an FTP server to…
Exploiting FTP Vulnerabilities for Effective Penetration Testing
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I built an AI agent in 50 lines of Python. Here's what everyone gets wrong about them.
You've been calling things agents for months. Most of them are just chatbots with extra steps.
AI Agents Are Not Users; Stop Authenticating Them Like They Are
Y Combinator is betting on autonomous B2B swarms, but we are authenticating them like 2008 browsers. I built an open-source, cryptographic…
The Beginner's Guide to Learning Agentic AI: From Zero to Your First AI Agent
Learn agentic AI step by step with this beginner-friendly guide. Understand AI agents, LLMs, workflows, tools, and how to build your first…
Building an AI Agent from Scratch: No Magic, Just a Deterministic Loop
I was using Claude, Codex, Cursor, Gemini, Copilot, or Junie every day, but I still could not point to the exact line where "chatbot" turns…
Whatever Can Happen, Will Happen
Eventually, you learn that not everything needs to be controlled to still turn out beautifully.