Software
16 posts
Posts about software development, tools, and engineering craft. If you need hands-on help, check out my consulting or technical audits.
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What if We Just… Made Billionaires Fix Their Companies to Avoid Taxes?
A thought experiment: what if we tied wealth taxation to customer satisfaction metrics?
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AI-Powered Cyberattack: When Bots Start Hacking Other Bots
Anthropic disclosed a large cyberattack almost entirely carried out by AI - a preview of what automated offensive security looks like.
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SOC 2: Lessons Learned from My Duck-ups
SOC 2 compliance isn't something you do once and forget - it's an ongoing quarterly effort. Here's what I learned the hard way.
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Google Is Sinking the Pixel Lineup + Android
The Pixel 10's performance problems, hardware quality issues, and Android's looming sideloading restrictions are all symptoms of the same disease.
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Why Digital Preservation Is Failing
Between platform migrations, AI content floods, and the structural impossibility of archiving the modern web, we're losing more than we realize.
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Anthropic Just Dropped One of the Best Technical Posts on Multi-Agent AI Systems
Anthropic's engineering post on their multi-agent research system is required reading for anyone building with AI.
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My Guide on AI Model Providers in 2025 (April/May): My Hands-On Experience
A practical comparison of Gemini, Claude, Grok, OpenAI, and Mistral based on real production use.
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Open Source Forking: Now What?
Forking might seem attractive, but the hidden costs - fragmentation, drift, and maintenance overhead - often outweigh the benefits.
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Windows Chaos Before and After Update: What Happened and How We Survived
A Windows 11 laptop became inaccessible after the April 2025 update. Here's how we got in, what we learned, and what to do before it happens to you.
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TensorFlow, Docker and GPUs: My Windows 11 Nightmare Solved
Two days of fighting TensorFlow GPU setup on Windows 11. Docker saved me - here's what I built and why it works.
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macOS Sequoia Spotlight Bug
Spotlight on macOS Sequoia is writing up to 26TB per night to disk. Here's how to disable it before it kills your SSD.
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Mp4, Safari, and Cloudflare – a Love-Hate Relationship
Why your videos break on Safari and iOS when served through Cloudflare, and five ways to fix it.
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"PlanetScale forever" – my 2 cents
PlanetScale killed their free tier and laid off staff in the same breath. Here's why that matters, and where to go instead.
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Resizing an Amazon EC2 Instance
Resizing an EBS-backed EC2 instance is simpler than it used to be. Here's what to check and how to do it without causing downtime.
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Made by Google
Google has killed ~290 products. The anxiety of building on services that might vanish is real - and it's changing how I think about infrastructure.
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No Code Apps and Everything "Good" About Them
No-code platforms promise to democratize development. Here's why they often fail businesses that try to scale on them.