Where Money, Investing, and Technology Meet
Despite my best efforts, I have been wrong a lot over the years. I’ve been wrong about technology patterns (in 2014, I thought microservices would take over the world), I’ve been wrong about management techniques (I used to think systems thinking was the ultimate technique, but I’ve seen so many mistakes rooted in over-reliance on […]
Every year, we donate $100 to a charity on behalf of each moderator on the Stack Exchange network. In 2025, we donated a total of $49,300 USD to seven different organizations focusing on different causes that are important to Stack Exchange communities. The amount that went to each charity was determined by the percentage of […]
The crypto market is flashing a rare signal for XRP, suggesting the asset may be undervalued and presenting a potential buying opportunity for investors. Data from blockchain analytical firm Santiment shows that XRP’s 30-day Market Value to Realized Value (MVRV) is at -5.7%, a level the analytics firm characterizes as a potential “buy zone.” XRP […]
With the marshals under attack, Kennedy deployed first the Mississippi National Guard and then thousands of federal troops as well. (That military operation, codenamed RAPID ROAD, was actually the first and only time during the Cold War that the military activated and used plans it had developed to quell civil disturbances in the wake of […]
from the department-of-just-us dept We are being led by deeply unserious people. Not only that, but people who are manufacturing cruelty upon their very own constituents. That’s how bad this has gotten. This week, the DOJ arrested three people in Minnesota for protesting ICE’s goonish activity in a local church, where the pastor there also […]
Ravie LakshmananJan 24, 2026Malware / Critical Infrastructure The Russian nation-state hacking group known as Sandworm has been attributed to what has been described as the “largest cyber attack” targeting Poland’s power system in the last week of December 2025. The attack was unsuccessful, the country’s energy minister, Milosz Motyka, said last week. “The command of […]
Rare footage: Houdini’s first jump into icy New York River, 1907 pic.twitter.com/86bxXgQK9J — Science girl (@sciencegirl) January 23, 2026 Nanoparticles That Destroy Disease Proteins Could Unlock New Treatments for Dementia and Cancer SciTech Daily The Market for Artificial Wombs is Here 3 Quarks Daily This startup will send 1,000 people’s ashes to space — affordably […]
Why This Article Is Part of My Portfolio Journey This piece is part of my effort to build a public engineering portfolio focused on sustainable architecture, engineering judgment, and long-term system design. Rather than showcasing isolated code samples, I’m documenting how I think about system design, trade-offs, and real-world engineering decisions — because architecture is […]
Federal agents in Minneapolis repeatedly punched a man, forced him to the ground, and then shot him multiple times. The man was later pronounced dead. This is just the latest incident of deadly violence involving ICE, which has grown increasingly frequent, especially on the streets of Minneapolis. It’s been less than three weeks since an […]
How to Build an Ingenious 400-Year-Old Swedish Torch From a Single Log Laughing Squid Climate/Environment Over the next week –> Arctic Blast 1.0 and Arctic Blast 2.0 mergeinto Super Arctic Blastthat will entomb the Eastern U.S. into a frigid hellscape. Temperatures 35°F to 45°F below normal will cripple 🇺🇸 east of the Mississippi. This is […]
