Month: April 2025

There’s no denying that stablecoins are the most successful crypto use case since the dawn of web3 and blockchains. It’s by far the one with the most adoption with a market cap of $233.8 billion as at the time of writing. Stablecoin supply increased by 9.61% in Q1 2025 alone. In 2024, stablecoins transaction volume … Read more

Can Copper and P2P.org‘s Collaboration Revolutionize Institutional Crypto Staking? As digital assets become increasingly integral to institutional portfolios, the demand for secure and reliable staking infrastructure is growing. Addressing this need, Copper, renowned for digital asset custody, collateral management, and prime services, has strategically aligned with staking infrastructure provider P2P.org. Could this partnership redefine institutional … Read more

Yesterday, OpenAI announced GPT-4.1, featuring a staggering 1M-token context window and perfect needle-in-a-haystack accuracy. Gemini 2.5 now matches that 1M-token benchmark, with up to 10M tokens available in research settings. As the founder of a RAG-as-a-service startup, my inbox quickly filled with messages claiming this was the end of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)—suggesting it was time … Read more

When the AI toy box trend exploded online, the results were everywhere :  pastel packaging, floating laptops, pixel-perfect bios. Fun, yes. Trendy? Absolutely. But most of what I saw was prompted for vibes not engineered for meaning. So I decided to do something different. This wasn’t going to be just another image. I was going to … Read more

So for the Slack bot – we’re a car rental company, so we run into operational issues quite a bit. This involves vehicles getting too far away from the home location or vehicles being low on charge. For example, a few weeks ago, we had a user drive from California all the way to the … Read more

Quality education is now costlier than it used to be. But this expense isn’t about price; it’s about access. In 2019, the World Bank recorded that 53% of children who suffer from learning poverty, with 55% in lower-middle-income countries and 90% in low-income countries. They can’t read proficiently. A 2024 press release from UNESCO estimates … Read more

Imagine signing up for a streaming service’s free trial, only to be auto-charged after a month with minimal notice—one that many users miss. Or struggling to cancel a gym subscription buried behind endless confirmation pages. These tactics, long favored by subscription businesses to enhance recurring revenue, are now under regulatory fire worldwide. For example, a … Read more

Engineering teams building high-throughput systems know that scaling infrastructure is never just about speed, it’s about resilience. At extreme volumes, even widely adopted tools can become bottlenecks. That’s exactly what we ran into while developing a high-volume surveillance platform designed to handle sudden spikes of over 300,000 requests per second. Our team was developing a … Read more

With the recent boom in AI, the footprint of AI workloads and AI supported hardware servers deployed in Cloud Data Centers has grown exponentially. This growth is spread across multiple regions worldwide over various data centers. To support this growth and to ensure leadership over various Cloud Competitors (like Azure, AWS, and GCP) have started … Read more

Hi, my name is Andrew! I oversee a large-scale online service where our queues (Kafka or similar) process millions of events each day. We have to spot anomalies quickly, track key metrics, and notify the team about critical issues—all in real time. Because data streams in from various systems, it’s never as simple as using … Read more

The success of startups often relies not only on the originality of the idea but also on the team’s ability to swiftly adapt to changes, make efficient use of limited resources, and bring innovative solutions to the market. However, when choosing technologies, early-stage founders frequently encounter a variety of challenges. According to a CB Insights … Read more

Arrow functions, introduced in PHP 7.4, provide a shorter syntax for anonymous functions. These functions allow for cleaner, more concise code when you need simple callback functions. Understand How Arrow Functions Work in PHP Arrow functions make code easier to read and write. They reduce boilerplate, especially for small, one-line functions. They automatically capture variables … Read more

Every programmer knows that moment when something suddenly makes sense. For me, it happened when functional programming finally clicked. At first, I didn’t get it. The concepts seemed backwards. Why avoid changing variables? Why make everything into functions? It felt like trying to write with my left hand when I was right-handed. But I kept … Read more

The discourse around building accessible websites tends to focus on physical disabilities – visual impairments (alt tags, screen reader compatibility), deafness (captions), color blindness (nothing should be signified by changes in color alone). However, mental health conditions such as PTSD, ADHD, autism, and depression are also considered disabilities under the American with Disabilities Act (ADA), … Read more

For centuries, mass production has shaped the world. The industrial age gave us egalitarian products. Products became equal for everyone. Whether you’re Elon Musk or an average Joe, you’re streaming the same Netflix, wearing mass-produced clothing, and using the same iPhone. That’s the hallmark of the commodity economy: when everything is the same, the cheapest … Read more

Finsai Bull, the popular Tap and Earn game hosted on Telegram’s Mini App platform, has officially launched its much-anticipated in-game referral program, opening up exciting new earning opportunities for its growing global player base. This new feature introduces a month-long referral contest designed to reward the most active and engaged users in the Finsai Bull … Read more

The volume of cypherpunks’ “creation,” and the nature of those creations, varies. As privacy activists through cryptography, many cypherpunks have written different types of code; sometimes just one piece, sometimes several. Others have written books, shared websites, or founded companies and organizations. A few others have done all of these. Bruce Schneier is one of … Read more