How To Run Claude Like a Tech Lead, Not a Senior Engineer
A month ago I wrote about treating Claude like a junior teammate instead of a search box brief it properly, plan before code, review the diff. That article is still the floor. This one is…
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Clean Code, Horrible performance Rust edition
In his infamous video “Clean” Code, Horrible Performance, the legendary Casey Muratori showed how trying to be cute with your code and introducing unnecessary indirection can hurt performance. He compared the “clean” code way of…
Sex for Rent in Germany: The Hidden Risk Behind the Housing Shortage
A student arriving in Munich with €380 available for housing faces an awkward piece of arithmetic. The median room in a shared flat now costs about €850 a month. Berlin and Hamburg are cheaper, but…
Why Lupin the Third: A Woman Called Fujiko Mine’s Ending Doesn’t Work
Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine is one of the few anime that is perfect in every way – but has all that perfection destroyed by a single decision at the very end.…
Microsoft Releases Ultra-Cheap AI Decision Model! Based on Qwen 9B, 35x Faster Than GPT-6
Just a couple of days ago, the engineering team at Microsoft’s CTO office suddenly dropped a bombshell: the official release of a scoring model specifically designed for rapid decision-making, Microsoft-Decision-1 This time, Microsoft didn’t bother…
Why Everybody Should Read Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
What constitutes a well-lived life? How can we find true happiness? And how do we develop into individuals who act not only successfully but also with moral integrity? These fundamental questions have driven humanity since…
Attacking GraphQL — Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR)
Introduction Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) vulnerabilities occur when a web application directly exposes object references, like database entries or files, without proper access controls, enabling unauthorized users to access, modify, or retrieve sensitive information.…
$11,000 for Two Login Flows That Shared a Memory: A Session Puzzling Bug That Skipped MFA Entirely
Some of the hardest bugs to find aren’t hidden in any single endpoint at all — they live in the gap between two features that were each tested thoroughly on their own, by different people,…
When Things Get Fuzzy Between You and a Crush, It All Starts With Give and Take
The relationship between a guy and a girl doesn’t happen overnight. From getting to know each other to becoming close friends, and eventually living together, it definitely takes time. For some people, this process is…
5 Books Under 200 Pages That Will Stay With You for Years
A strange idea in the reading world is that a book has to be long to matter. That the 600-page doorstop on your shelf is the serious one, and the slim little thing next to…