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How Claude and Codex Learned to Tag Each Other
Block's Buzz gives AI coding agents their own keypairs and channel membership. A code-level walkthrough of how one agent wakes another up, with no orchestrator.
The AI Boom Is Real. The Layoffs Are Real. They're Not the Same Story.
Tech firms are spending $750B on AI while cutting six-figure layoffs since 2023. A complete, sourced breakdown of who's actually hurt, why, and what's next.
Find out where your latency actually goes
A measurement procedure that tells you which layer of your stack owns the delay, before you optimize the wrong one. Worked through on a system that turned out to be 98% network.
Serve Static Files with Nginx Without Breaking Your MIME Types
Nginx serves your HTML fine but hands back CSS as text/plain. Why the obvious types{} fix breaks HTML, and what to use instead.
MCP: The USB-C of AI, Explained Properly
MCP is called the USB-C of AI. What that analogy actually means, why AI tool calling needed a standard, and what MCP still does not solve for you.
CVE-2026-63030: WordPress Pre-Auth RCE Explained
CVE-2026-63030 is critical, but automated exploitation fails on one overlooked detail that 70% of production sites already defend against.
One Server Per Customer Domain Doesn't Survive Contact With Scale
Per-customer TLS breaks past a few hundred domains. How a shared edge resolves millions of custom hostnames: the registration payload, priority rules, and the RFC forcing an apex workaround.
Automate Your Project with GitHub Actions: Testing, Deployment, and npm Publishing
A hands-on guide to GitHub Actions: local testing with act, automated test/deploy/npm-publish workflows, cron schedules, custom actions, and 2026 platform updates.
The 7 Levels of Logical Thinking
From gut instinct to Gödel: a personal walk through how logical reasoning escalates from everyday intuition to research-grade abstraction, and which rungs actually matter.
Why Powerful People Suddenly Disappear: The Psychology of Power, Explained
Why the most successful people seem unreadable — never oversharing, occasionally vanishing, always a step ahead. The psychology of power unpacked into blunt, practical rules.
What Are You Willing to Be Disliked For?
Mark Manson argues confidence, people-pleasing, and purpose are one knot: an unwillingness to be uncomfortable. Untie that, and everything else loosens.
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