The short version: this matters more than the headline suggests. The People Who Love Gacha Games Are Also Its Harshest Critics Loving gacha games and being critical of them aren’t contradictory positions. The people who care most about the genre are usually the ones most willing to point out where it falls short. They spend …
The Setup: Two Pieces of the Same Puzzle Last November at re:Invent, AWS dropped two things that got the usual amount of buzz. Graviton4 processors powering new R8g and C8g instances. Amazon Nova, a family of foundation models undercutting the market on tokens. On the surface, they seemed like separate announcements. They’re not. Both are …
The Breach Nobody’s Talking About Enough Last December, the U.S. government confirmed what security researchers had been tracking for months: Salt Typhoon, a Chinese state-sponsored operation, had successfully compromised at least nine major telecommunications carriers including AT&T and Verizon. We’re not talking about a limited intrusion. The scope here is staggering. Over 1 million individuals …
The Shift Nobody Wanted to Admit Was Coming I’ve been doing code reviews for fifteen years. I’ve sat in rooms with architects who could spot a race condition in their sleep. I’ve also watched those same people struggle to keep up with pull request volume, context-switching between repositories, and the grinding fatigue of holding an …
The Promise and the Reality GitHub Copilot Workspace went live in late 2025, and the pitch was clean: take an issue, generate code, ship a pull request, all without leaving your browser. No context switching. No friction. The promise sounded like the kind of thing that would reshape how we work. Why GitHub Copilot Workspace …
The Operating Theater Never Closes I spent most of the 2000s managing infrastructure at a financial services company. We ran systems that processed transactions worth billions daily. The network never shut down. The databases never went dark. When you’re responsible for that kind of operation, you develop a particular kind of respect for boring things: …