The AI Bubble Will Deflate, Not Pop
Drawing parallels between the 2000 dot-com crash and today's AI investment frenzy. Why the current AI correction will be a deflation rather than a catastrophic burst....
When Microservices Make Sense
Microservices succeed when you have the right prerequisites: team scale, deployment independence, scaling needs, and operational maturity. Here's how to tell if they're right for you....
My Web Crawler Crashed a Server at Los Alamos
How a homemade web crawler in 1993 crashed a Los Alamos server, the birth of robots.txt, and why AI companies are breaking the web etiquette that held for 30 years....
Startup Metrics Theater: Vanity vs Value
Vanity metrics like DAU and total downloads create illusions of progress while hiding real problems. The metrics that predict survival - retention, churn, unit economics - often hurt to look at....
C Was the Last Good Language
Why modern languages prioritize developer experience over runtime efficiency. The trade-offs we accepted and forgot. Where Rust tries to have it both ways....
What Text Adventures Taught Me About Software
How text adventure games like Zork shaped my understanding of software design, interface thinking, and the power of constraints to fuel creativity....
Remote Work Made Us Worse
Remote work traded visible costs for invisible ones. Knowledge transfer, mentorship, and collaboration all suffered....
Why Multimodal AI Is Massively Overhyped
Multimodal AI sits at peak hype on Gartner's 2025 cycle. But 80% of pilots fail to scale beyond testing. The gap between benchmark performance and production reality is where projects go to die....
Why I Spent $0 on Patents for 20 Years - Then Filed Everything
When patents matter (defensive portfolios, M&A leverage, licensing revenue) and when they're a distraction. The top 10 AI patent holders control nearly half of industry IP....
Serverless Done Right
Serverless works for event-driven, bursty, stateless workloads. Here's how to avoid cold start pain, manage state, choose the right granularity, and know when containers are better....
Your Users Don't Care About Your Architecture
The graveyard is full of startups with beautiful architecture and zero traction. 70% of failed startups scaled prematurely. Ship something simple, learn what users want, iterate fast....
Mutation Testing Primer: Finding Real Bugs
Mutation testing answers what coverage can't: do your tests actually catch bugs? Learn how to use mutation testing tools to find the gaps in your test suite and write tests that genuinely verify corre...
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