Technology, AIIn the Era of ChatGPT and friendsAI technology is advancing rapidly and changing many aspects of our lives, including the way we communicate and write. One of the most…
Technology, AIBing's great comebackToday, I decided to check the hype about the Bing search engine that got superpowers all of a sudden, by integrating with chatGPT. I mainly…
Security, TechnologyFinding an appropriate WAF might be harder than it looksWhen you deploy anything on the internet, it immediately becomes a target for cyber attacks. There are many measures that need to be taken…
Smart Home, Hobbies, TechnologyBuilding a smart HVAC system from scratchWhen you build your own house you get to make all the decisions. That sounds great until you realize you also have to live with all of them.
Technology, AI, OpinionsDeepSeek R1 and the week the pricing story brokeI spend my working life thinking about systems, vendors, and risk. So when DeepSeek dropped R1 in late January and the internet spent a week…
Technology, AI, CodeThe week coding assistants stopped pretending to be autocompleteIf you write software for a living, you develop a reflex for classifying tools. “Helpful sometimes.” “Annoying often.” “Fine for boilerplate…
Smart Home, Technology, HobbiesHome Assistant and the local-first smart homeSmart home products love to sell you convenience. What they do not mention is that most of that convenience runs through someone else's server.
Technology, AI, Code, OpinionsVibe Coding: An Honest Take After Three Years of AI-Assisted DevelopmentLong time no see. Three years ago I wrote a post about the dawn of the ChatGPT era and how it felt like we were standing at a genuinely…
Opinions, Code, TechnologyTraining juniors in the AI era — judgment, struggle, and why the field still needs new dataI wrote separately about how day-to-day coding with AI has changed the job. That story is mostly about people who already have a mental…
