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Quick Java 25 Benchmarking: AOT Cache and Compact Headers
TL;DR The Goal: Stress-testing a vibe-coded dummy Spring Boot app on Java 25 to see if two new performance features are worth the switch.The Results: AOT Cache is the star, slashing boot times by ~30%. Compact Headers provided a modest ~3.4% heap saving.The Catch: Marketing says “33% header reduction,” but real-world objects have payloads and…
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Solving the WordPress Spam Problem: My $0-AI-Built Cardea Plugin
TL;DR: Comment spam on my site was getting out of hand, and existing solutions were either bloated or conflicted with the WordPress ecosystem. So, I used free AI tools to build my own full-blown WordPress anti-spam plugin Cardea which is now live in the repository for everyone to use. If you run a blog, you…
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Why Pitching to 30 Teens is More Exhilarating Than Facing 30 Professors
Last week I stepped outside my daily technical comfort zone to deliver a presentation on personal finance and online safety. Over the course of the day, I was honored to run three back-to-back sessions, each with a room of about 30 teenagers. In my previous life I had the experience of giving a speech to…
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Time To (Re-)Read Asimov
These days many of us (if not most) are concerned with the role AI is going to play in our lives. Most concerns have been mostly about retaining our jobs, and lately – especially after AI may be blamed for military tragedies – the role of AI in conflicts, wars and “not wars”. Humanity actually…
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MetaMask Card: A Step Closer to the True Crypto Card
MetaMask (the most popular crypto wallet) just announced its Mastercard debit card in the United States, even including New York(!), with one exception: Vermont. This is the first Mastercard crypto card to reach general availability. Visa has been in the game longer, notably with the Solayer Emerald Card, but its audience is tiny in comparison.…
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Making LLMs Compete For the Best HTTP/2 Configuration
It’s no wonder why Apache HTTPD doesn’t have HTTP/2 enabled by default. Whenever I enable it for my (this) website, I consistently get the same or slightly worse client-side performance numbers. As with any tool, blindly turning something on without proper tuning often does more harm than good, and I never had the time or…