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Major U.S. internet outages are rarely one broken server. They are systemic failures in a handful of shared layers that quietly hold the web together.

The progress bar started as an honest meter, then became a UX tool for managing uncertainty, boredom, and trust during waiting.

Prompt injection is phishing for LLMs, and secure agent design depends on treating text as hostile input and tools as hard boundaries.

Stealth AI models hide behind generic branding, vague claims, and selective demos, which makes evaluation much harder than it should be.

The paper clip was not inevitable. The Gem won because its geometry gripped well, damaged paper less, and scaled cleanly in manufacturing.

Ten strange Apple patents, from pizza boxes to shape-shifting mice, and what they reveal about experimentation inside consumer hardware design.

I built Ray Clicker inside Raycast, and the project turned into a lesson in UI constraints, save migrations, and building for fun first.

A critique of BetterHelp's incentives, privacy failures, and why therapy marketplaces deserve much more scrutiny than they get.

Raycast replaces a pile of tiny workflow apps with one fast command bar, and it still manages to stay surprisingly lightweight.

A quick look at learning Manim, using Python to build cleaner technical animations, and where the tool helps explain complex ideas.