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Long-form technical essays, news analysis, and engineering deep dives.

How to build a private offline AI search cluster in your homelab

How to Build a Private Offline AI Search Cluster That’d Make Even BlackCore Sweat (Your Data Stays Yours, Promise) Listen up, tech wranglers and homelab gurus! Wong Edan here, fresh off a caffeine IV drip and ready to tackle a topic so deliciously paranoid it makes your grandma’s bunker look like a kiddie pool. Ever […]

Jul 20, 2026 [ 12 MIN ]

Signal Flaws in Wearable Biosensors: 2026 Vulnerability Surge

Signal Flaws in Wearable Biosensors: The 2026 Vulnerability Surge That’ll Make Your Heart Rate Spike (Literally) The Calm Before the Storm: When Your Smart Ring Betrays You Picture this: You’re mid-zoom call, your smart ring buzzes like an over-caffeinated bee, flashing “CRITICAL HEART RATE ANOMALY.” You cancel the meeting, break into a cold sweat, and—plot […]

Jul 20, 2026 [ 2 MIN ]

2026 Guide: Filecoin, Arweave, Storj for Space-Based Earth Observation Telemetry

2026 Guide: Filecoin, Arweave, Storj – Your Satellite Data’s Lifeline (Or Why Your Space Telemetry Shouldn’t Live on Dropbox) Alright, space cadets and data nerds! Wong Edan here, fresh off a (metaphorical) near-miss with space junk while trying to grab latte refills. You know, it’s 2026, and humanity’s got more eyes in the sky than […]

Jul 18, 2026 [ 10 MIN ]

De-SaaSification: Top open source architectures to self-host your stack

De-SaaSification: Your Ultimate Escape Plan from SaaS Lock-In Prison (Without Burning Down Your Server Room) The SaaS Trap: When “Free” Costs You Your Soul (and Credit Card) Listen up, fellow tech wranglers. You thought you were getting a deal when you signed up for that sleek SaaS tool promising “effortless productivity.” Fast forward 18 months: […]

Jul 18, 2026 [ 5 MIN ]

Decentralized storage infrastructure: IPFS vs Arweave vs Greenfield

Decentralized Storage Showdown: IPFS vs Arweave vs Greenfield – Where the Hell Do I Store My NFTs? (Spoiler: Not On Your Mom’s Laptop) Alright, you Web3 wannabes and dApp daredevils. Gather ’round. Wong Edan here, fresh off deleting another “blockchain storage expert” LinkedIn post that confused IPFS with a cryptocurrency. *sips bubble tea aggressively* Let’s […]

Jul 18, 2026 [ 13 MIN ]

Why Rust is actively eating the C++ infrastructure landscape

Why Rust is Actively Eating the C++ Infrastructure Landscape (And Why Your Legacy Code is Sweating Bullets) The Buffer Overflow Tsunami is Here, and Rust Just Hired a Bulldozer Listen up, you glorious band of segfault survivors and dangling pointer wranglers. Wong Edan here, diving headfirst into the molten slag of systems programming where the […]

Jul 17, 2026 [ 11 MIN ]
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