Tag: software

  • SOC 2: Lessons learned from my duck-ups

    SOC 2: Lessons learned from my duck-ups

    Tldr: SOC 2 compliance isn’t something you do once and forget. It’s an ongoing effort that needs attention every quarter, even if just a little, so you don’t end up drowning in it later. The process will uncover gaps in your security and operational maturity – take those as chances to improve, not as extra…

  • Debunking the Myths: What SEO Professionals Need to Know About AI and LLMs

    Debunking the Myths: What SEO Professionals Need to Know About AI and LLMs

    The Bottom Line – tldr Think critically before purchasing any AI SEO service. Ask detailed questions and don’t hesitate to verify the expertise of the people you’ll be working with. AI is fundamentally about personalization, and the equations are vastly different depending on that personalization. The industry will soon face a reckoning when clients start…

  • Google Is Sinking the Pixel Lineup + Android

    Google Is Sinking the Pixel Lineup + Android

    Google’s Pixel phones used to represent the best of Android – clean software, intelligent features, and cameras that consistently punched above their weight. But with the recently released Pixel 10 series and its new Tensor G5 chip, it’s becoming clear that Google has fundamentally lost direction with both its hardware strategy and Android’s future. Tensor…

  • Why digital preservation is failing

    Why digital preservation is failing

    For decades, we’ve had the “comforting” myth that “the internet never forgets.” Yet every week brings news of another digital graveyard – websites shutting down, archives disappearing, and irreplaceable historical content vanishing forever. The recent closure of AnandTech’s article archive is just the latest casualty in what has become a crisis of digital memory. The…

  • Anthropic just dropped one of the best technical posts on multi-agent AI systems

    Anthropic just dropped one of the best technical posts on multi-agent AI systems

    If you’re building anything AI-related, especially around research or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), stop what you’re doing and read this post from Anthropic: How We Built Claude’s Multi-Agent Research System It’s a masterclass in building effective multi-agent architectures – not hand-wavy theory, but actual production-ready details from Claude’s new research system. Think parallel reasoning, dynamic tool…

  • Windows Chaos Before and After Update: What Happened and How We Survived

    Windows Chaos Before and After Update: What Happened and How We Survived

    Windows Login Chaos After April 2025 Update: What Happened and How We Survived Let’s talk about Windows. We all use it… until it decides to do something incredibly Windows. We recently had an odd issue with a laptop running Windows 11. Nothing out of the ordinary – except that after one of Microsoft’s latest updates…

  • TensorFlow, Docker and GPUs: My Windows 11 Nightmare Solved

    TensorFlow, Docker and GPUs: My Windows 11 Nightmare Solved

    TensorFlow with GPU support on Windows 11 has become my personaл nemesis for the last 2 days. What should be a straightforward installation turned into a labyrinth of WSL2 configurations, permission errors, and driver incompatibilities that nearly broke me. After wrestling with this setup for a whole day, I finally built a Docker container that…

  • Macos Sequoia Spotlight Bug

    Spotlight Bug in macOS Sequoia is Wrecking SSDs – Disable It Now! If you’re running macOS Sequoia, you might want to disable Spotlight immediately. The bug appears to be causing Spotlight to write absurd amounts of data—up to 26TB per night—to the disk. This is a serious issue that could drastically shorten the lifespan of…

  • Been building products for 10 years, here’s what I’ve really learned

    Been building products for 10 years, here’s what I’ve really learned

    Let’s break down some common advice and see what actually works… “Ship fast, build fast, learn fast, fail fast” Yeah, moving quickly is good, but here’s the truth: putting zero effort into something WILL show. The days of easy money are gone – people won’t throw cash at random stuff anymore. Do your homework, talk…

  • Mp4, Safari, and Cloudflare – a love-hate relationship

    Mp4, Safari, and Cloudflare – a love-hate relationship

    When using Cloudflare to speed up websites, you might encounter issues with MP4 videos, not auto-playing in Safari or on iOS devices. (or not showing at all) This is often due to how Cloudflare handles video file headers, particularly with chunked or streamed content, which can result in Safari failing to autoplay the video. Safari…