Category: IT
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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…
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Inside the Software Lockdown of Modern Cars
The days when you could connect to your car via OBD-II and make it do magic stuff are over – something I realized after spending some time with a recent Audi/VW fleet car. In the good old days, about six years ago, the VW platform was surprisingly open to coding and very popular with car…
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The Command Line Is Changing: AI Enters the Terminal
For anyone dealing with computers professionally, command line is the essential tool. I recently explored how AI is transforming it. There are multiple solutions that bring AI to your fingertips. Claude Code is the most prominent one, but requires a paid subscription. Gemini CLI is an accessible open-source alternative with a generous free tier, so…
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Ode To Gentoo
One of the reasons I’ve enjoyed using Gentoo Linux for the last 15 years is its version-less release model, which is similar to the BSD Ports system. Early in my career, I tried many different Linux distributions, where managing versions and updates was almost always a frustrating experience. Living with Gentoo is a completely different…
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Detecting AI-Generated Content
Another brilliant Java meetup by NY Java SIG (and no, it’s not because I won IntelliJ license raffle). Huge kudos to the organizers for keeping these events coming! Sean Phillips from Johns Hopkins University presented an astonishing method capable of detecting AI-generated content, be it text (that could be read out), AI-generated audio, or even…