October 2026 Review: The Website Grew, X Fell Off a Cliff, and Sales Remained a Beautiful Fiction
October’s website grew 30% while X plunged 92%. Facebook rebounded, TikTok sank, and the strangest lesson was…
Why Can’t I Unpin a Post on TikTok? Or How Three Videos Took My Profile Hostage
Three TikTok videos had been pinned to my profile for ages. Every Unpin attempt failed, until I discovered the button hiding…
What the Heck Is a Neocloud Company? Or Did Someone Just Give the Cloud a $10 Billion Makeover?
AI’s newest power players are spending billions on GPUs and calling it a neocloud. Sounds impressive, but wait until you discover…
Who’s Who in AI — Episode 3: Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Yoshua Bengio — The Deep Learning Rebels Who Refused to Let Neural Networks Die
Three AI rebels kept believing when the experts gave up. Then they changed everything. Now they disagree about what comes next…
CS303: Episode 1 — Why Databases Exist, or Because Text Files Eventually Become a Cry for Help
Your program remembers everything. Until it restarts. Then two users arrive, a file gets corrupted, and suddenly the database problem becomes…
Software Longevity: I Just Finished Building It. Why Are They Already Tearing It Down?
Your software masterpiece could be obsolete before launch. AI is rewriting the rules, but the biggest threat to your code might be…
Author Series, Episode 1: Jeff Wheeler and the Kingfountain Series, or How to Read Six Books Without Accidentally Starting a Royal Succession Crisis
Six Kingfountain books, mysterious prequels, and a universe of connections. Jeff Wheeler even recommends interrupting the series to read…
Music That Moves Me, Episode 13: Plain White T’s — Hey There Delilah, or How One Acoustic Guitar Conquered the World
One acoustic guitar. One imaginary romance. One enormous hit. But the true story behind “Hey There Delilah” takes a surprising turn…
ChatGPT Dots: Your New AI Employee Never Sleeps, Never Complains, and Might Accidentally Ruin Your Tuesday
ChatGPT dots can work while you sleep. But can you trust them with your digital life? Early users discovered some surprising…
I Merged My Git Branch, Deleted It on GitHub, and It’s STILL HERE! What Kind of Sorcery Is This?
Merged your Git branch? Deleted it on GitHub? So why is it STILL on your computer? The answer reveals something Git never told you…