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My manager remarked when I told him I was leaving for another team. I really liked my manager, I was proud of working in the team but among other reasons, continuing to work in technical-debt fixing for more than a year while most members of my team were busy launching a promising v1 project, was affecting my happiness. I voiced my concerns but having done it for so long, I knew the area better than others. After a year of seeing opportunities pass by, I decided to make the move thus leading my team to lose a productive employee and myself leaving a team which I felt proud by association.

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As AI adoption grows, legacy data access controls fall short. Here’s why zero-trust data security is becoming essential for modern AI systems.

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Project Manager of a AAA game reveals how he optimized art production by a factor of 3.3.

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Container start-up latency can significantly slow down AI/ML workflows and degrade user experience in interactive environments.

Reducing Docker Container Start-up Latency: Practical Strategies for Faster AI/ML Workflows

Broken Object Level Authorization (BOLA) is eating the API economy from the inside out. 

The Authorization Gap No One Wants to Talk About: Why Your API Is Probably Leaking Right Now

We audit Erlang/OTP’s decades-old C and NIF code with PVS-Studio, surfacing logic bugs, buffer risks, undefined behavior, and leaks in battle-tested systems.

The 1980s Code Powering Modern Reliability—and the Mistakes It Still Makes

I became a project manager in a game company in 2021 and witnessed how production processes evolved in parallel with the rapid emergence of new AI tools.

Adapting to AI: Insights from a Project Manager in Game Development

PVS-Studio’s year-end roundup of the top 10 strangest Java errors found in open-source projects in 2025.

Java’s Greatest Hits (of Failure): Top 10 Open-Source Errors of 2025

Can massive 100 TB+ tapes turn from preservation assets into liabilities? A veteran storage engineer explores risks, erasure coding, and future tape resilience.

When “big Tape” Stops Being a Storage Asset and Starts Acting Like Radioactive Data Waste

Speculative execution attacks can leak ARM MTE memory tags, allowing attackers to bypass protections in Chrome and Linux with near-perfect success.

A Promising ARM Security Feature Isn’t as Bulletproof as It Looks

I didn’t break hiring. It broke the evidence. Why CVs and training signals no longer predict capability, and what HR should use instead in 2026

Hiring Didn’t Fail - Evidence Did.

An AI agent without memory is just a script. An agent without guardrails is a liability. The 7 critical pillars of building production-grade Agentic AI.

The Seven Pillars of a Production-Grade Agent Architecture

How Witness uses device, operator, and server-backed cryptographic signatures to authenticate photos and videos at capture.

Why I Built Witness and How it Works Under the Hood

Controlled experiment compares perceived vs actual defect-detection effectiveness across testing and code reading, measuring mismatch cost and project loss.

Why We Misjudge Our Own Effectiveness at Finding Software Bugs

Midnight ramps up for mainnet with the launch of its native token following one of the most engaged token distributions in recent blockchain history.

Midnight Opens Redemptions for 4.5B+ NIGHT Tokens After Record-Breaking Distribution Event

IdeaOps is a framework for turning product ideas and requests into assets that fuel business growth. Learn how to classify and process them effectively.

IdeaOps: Why Every Request is a Company Asset in Product Development

Why LLMs collapse on email threads, recursive conversations, and unstructured communication—and what a context-first architecture looks like in practice. 

You Don't Have a Prompt Problem. You Have a Context Problem.

Ethereum’s Fusaka hard fork adds PeerDAS, new gas and block limits, and cryptography upgrades to make rollups cheaper and nodes more efficient.

Ethereum Fusaka Hard Fork: What’s Changing?

OTP (One-time Pad) is the only encryption technique mathematically proven to be unbreakable. It was first described by Frank Miller in 1882.

The Original OTP: Inside the Only Encryption Proven to Be Unbreakable

What started as a simple script evolved into a full-fledged data engineering and NLP pipeline that can process a decade's worth of legal decisions in minutes.

Python Script to Read and Judge 1,500 Legal Cases

Extrinsic rewards build a rewards-chasing culture where employees push themselves only when they’re offered some perks in return.

You Can’t Micromanage Your Way to Motivation

Generative AI shifts value from experience to creativity—boosting novices, exposing expert rigidity, and powering ultra-lean, AI-native companies.

How Generative AI Gives Newcomers an Edge Over Experts

Among Indigenous people, just nine patients were accepted for a transplant in that period for every 100 who died from liver disease.

Native Americans Are Less Likely To Receive Liver Transplant Than Other Racial Groups

Measuring AI impact made clear: experiments, causal methods, and sanity checks to separate real improvement from coincidence.

A Practical Guide to Measuring Business Impact in AI/ML Projects

Born in an agency that interfaced with hundreds of companies, \"Assigned\" solves the problem of delegating to external teams

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What to do when assigned uninteresting software engineering projects?

Zero-Trust Data Access for AI Training: New Architecture Patterns for Cloud and On-Prem Workloads

How a PM Can Transform Art Production: A Case Study in AAA Gaming

Reducing Docker Container Start-up Latency: Practical Strategies for Faster AI/ML Workflows

The Authorization Gap No One Wants to Talk About: Why Your API Is Probably Leaking Right Now

The 1980s Code Powering Modern Reliability—and the Mistakes It Still Makes

Adapting to AI: Insights from a Project Manager in Game Development

Java’s Greatest Hits (of Failure): Top 10 Open-Source Errors of 2025

When “big Tape” Stops Being a Storage Asset and Starts Acting Like Radioactive Data Waste

A Promising ARM Security Feature Isn’t as Bulletproof as It Looks

Hiring Didn’t Fail - Evidence Did.

The Seven Pillars of a Production-Grade Agent Architecture

Why I Built Witness and How it Works Under the Hood

Why We Misjudge Our Own Effectiveness at Finding Software Bugs

Midnight Opens Redemptions for 4.5B+ NIGHT Tokens After Record-Breaking Distribution Event

IdeaOps: Why Every Request is a Company Asset in Product Development

You Don't Have a Prompt Problem. You Have a Context Problem.

Ethereum Fusaka Hard Fork: What’s Changing?

The Original OTP: Inside the Only Encryption Proven to Be Unbreakable

Python Script to Read and Judge 1,500 Legal Cases

You Can’t Micromanage Your Way to Motivation

How Generative AI Gives Newcomers an Edge Over Experts

Native Americans Are Less Likely To Receive Liver Transplant Than Other Racial Groups

A Practical Guide to Measuring Business Impact in AI/ML Projects

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