Tech companies keep making us embarrassed to be their customers. Maybe we don’t have to live like that.

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A lone port 22, wide open, accepting every password. 269,000 connections, 7,556 unique IPs, and a few visitors who thought they’d hit the jackpot.

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I find it tedious to have to backup databases every week. And I also think weekly backups should be turned into daily backups. If I had to do that, I don’t want to do it manually. What’s the best …

In 1958, Mao ordered every village to produce steel. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Today’s top-down AI mandates are producing the same pattern: ba…

Reverse engineering the traffic system from Pizza Tycoon (1994): how the original devs drove dozens of cars through a city with almost no CPU budget.

In this article, we propose an alternative approach to digital identity that replaces user profiles with trusted digital relationships.

“The more I learn about the systems I depend on every day, the more I’m convinced that everything in compsci is a dumpster fire that we collectively refuse to extinguish. It’s a social problem - and, of course, everyone is trying to solve it with tech.”