COVID-19 pandemic was somewhat underwhelming, but a way more serious disaster is being worked on.
It appears ChatGPT can be better than a Google Search these days, if only by a little.
A curious incident of a mostly innocent delivery looking like a message from Mafia.
The worldwide outage caused by a faulty update in Crowdstrike took many by surprise. It really should not have.
Are “x10 engineers” engineers are myth or reality? And why?
Systematic trading requires a tailored data backbone, let’s consider what is the absolute minimum required.
Each natural language has a standard on word order. Programming languages have it too, but there are nuances.
Naming conventions are more than conventions: they have an impact on the readability and precision of code.
Making Gnome 3 desktop environment be usable enough.
Someone should say it: for professionals, Linux used to be a superb OS for Desktop use, but now it is in a deep decline.
Considering the matter of authentication factors, 2FA, and applicability of popular approaches in high-security environments.
The tradition of using ASCII-only characters in code is deeply rooted, but perhaps it is time for it to go?
Log4Shell was a zero-day vulnerability of significant impact. Let’s try to recall the facts and figure out what factors may be resulting in such vulnerabilities coming into existence.
With General AI being almost around the corner, let’s explore the question of what kind of “person” would a self-aware General AI be.
Exploring the amazing similarities between seemingly unrelated things: cities, integrated circuits, and living cells.
Analysing the reasons why Python is so popular in quantitative finance despite many weaknesses in the language and its ecosystem as far as this specific niche is concerned.
GC pauses introduce latencies but not every kind of latency has an impact on P&L. Analysing the impact of GC pauses on the profitability of trading and the merit of trying to avoid GC latencies at all costs.
Agile Software Development is tremendously popular and is seen as a universal virtue by many. It also clearly has value. But is it really a silver bullet or perhaps there are situations where it is unfit for purpose?
Reflections on the endless cycle of writing, using, abandoning, and re-writing essentially the same software again and again. Considering the cost of this cycle of wastefulness, the root causes of the phenomenon, and ways to avoid it.