AI Grift Series — Part 5 — End-Stage Enshittification
In 2023, Cory Doctorow coined the perfect term for the rot that inevitably consumes digital platforms: “enshittification”. Named the Macquarie Dictionary’s Word of the Year in 2024, it describes the process by…
Keep readingBuilding an Automated AI Bug Fixing Pipeline Using Datadog, Claude Code, Cursor and Slack
How we built a fully automated system that detects errors, suggests and applies fixes, and creates pull requests with zero human intervention 👀 Vision Imagine a world where production errors…
Keep readingTech Rot Series — Part 1 — Agile & The Commodification Of Time
The Agile software development process began as a manifesto, a welcome change from the stifling hierarchies and waterfall workflows of traditional project management. It was a revolutionary ethos — prioritizing…
Keep readingAI Grift Series — Part 3 — Exploitation Of Labor
Artificial intelligence is celebrated as a transformative force poised to reshape the fabric of human existence. Yet, lurking beneath this polished and curated narrative is a disturbing reality, where the…
Keep readingAI Grift Series — Part 2 — The AGI Lie
The term “Artificial General Intelligence” (AGI) has long been a source of fascination, speculation, and confusion. It conjures visions of machines capable of thinking, reasoning, and acting like humans across…
Keep readingAI Grift Series — Part 1 — Mass Surveillance
“As I emerged from prison, I see that Artificial Intelligence is being used to create mass assassinations. Where before there was a difference between assassination and warfare, now the two…
Keep readingIntroducing parkbench.ai
For most of my life, I have struggled with mental health challenges, including anxiety and depression. These challenges have had profound effects on my life — making it difficult to…
Keep readingAWS: Optimizing SEO for a SPA with Lambda@Edge and Prerender.io
Single-Page Applications (SPAs) are popular for their fast and seamless user experiences. However, SPAs often struggle with SEO because search engine crawlers can’t easily render JavaScript-heavy pages. This can result…
Keep readingNostr Series — Part 7: Deleting Me Softly…
As you begin using many of the twitter-like clients built on Nostr, you may notice that delete post functionality is missing from many of them. The reason for this is…
Keep readingSetting Up A Lightning Network Node With Alby Hub & Alby Cloud
Recently, the fantastic folks at Alby released the Alby Hub product, a self-sovereign Alby wallet with an integrated lightning node. Alby Hub offers the simplest and fastest way to set…
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