Essays
A reflective essay on how AI assistants erode not our ability to think, but our desire to think — drawing parallels with how calculators killed mental arithmetic and smartphones killed our ability to memorize information.
Science
A developer with a lifelong ADHD diagnosis dives into the neuroscience of why specific rhythmic, predictable music helps brains with attention deficit disorder focus, and shares a pet project born from those findings.
Programming
Two independent research teams tried to locate the Soviet Luna-9 spacecraft on the Moon's surface using very different methods -- neural networks vs manual visual search -- and arrived at contradictory conclusions.
Essays
An in-depth look at the global RAM shortage crisis driven by AI demand, producer manipulation, tariffs, and natural disasters — with prices surging over 200% and no end in sight.
Programming
A DevOps engineer with a decade of experience built a minimal Python script that converts natural-language requests into bash commands using an LLM — and after a month of use, started forgetting how to write tar -xzf from memory. The productivity gain is real. So is the cognitive cost.
Science
Part five of the series digs into the radar and missile guidance technologies that define modern air defense: semi-active homing, proportional navigation, frequency hopping, phased array antennas, and the evolution from WWII-era systems to AEGIS and beyond.
Linux
A structured guide to diagnosing Linux performance problems layer by layer — from application and kernel, through filesystem and block devices, to the network stack, CPU scheduler, memory, and hardware. Covers classic tools alongside eBPF/BCC utilities and notable open-source monitoring projects.
Robotics
A PID controller explained without a single formula. How proportional, integral, and derivative components work using intuitive analogies.
Science
The story of the Dornier Do X -- the largest, heaviest, and most powerful aircraft of its time -- a three-deck flying boat with 12 engines, a smoking salon, and sleeping cabins that ultimately became the most ambitious failure of aviation's golden age.
Management
A satirical first-person account of a developer who replaced all engineering judgment with AI tools, got fired for producing catastrophic code quality, and is now building a startup that won't launch due to a bug no AI can fix.
Programming
A deep dive into Andrej Karpathy's 200-line pure Python implementation of a GPT-like transformer model with no external dependencies, breaking down its autograd engine, attention mechanism, and training loop to show how the core mechanics of ChatGPT work at the smallest possible scale.
Essays
A detailed guide on building primitive cold-cathode CRTs at home using accessible vacuum equipment, aluminum electrodes, and phosphor salvaged from fluorescent lamps.