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The Real Bottleneck at 1 Million RPS
A real 1M req/sec benchmark on AWS. The database broke exactly once. Here's what broke the other four times, and what actually fixed each one.
I Asked an AI Agent to Go Live. It Opened My Server to the Whole Internet.
A live test of DeepSeek Harness, a self-hosted AI coding agent, shows what happens when an obedient agent is asked to expose a server, and why the firewall around it mattered more than the model inside it.
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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