Computing
Non-AI computing: networks, servers, hardware, software engineering, and digital security and privacy.
#4644: Where Did the Good Online Marketplaces Go?
Amazon's marketplace is an ad platform, not a store. We explore what actually works for finding quality gear online.
#4641: Mozilla's Hidden Projects: Beyond the Browser
Mozilla is more than just Firefox. Discover Common Voice, Monitor, Thunderbird, and Rust — the public infrastructure projects shaping the open web.
#4640: Turning Your Home Router Into a Networking Lab
Beyond the firewall tab—using OPNsense plugins and traffic shaping to learn real networking at home.
#4639: Concrete Walls vs. Wi-Fi: Choosing a Fill-in AP
One AP used to cover Daniel's apartment. Then he moved. Concrete walls changed everything.
#4638: Traffic Shaping: How Routers Decide Who Gets Bandwidth
Token buckets, bufferbloat, and why your router's QoS settings might be lying to you.
#4636: Taming Three DNS Overlays on One Laptop
Commercial VPN, Tailscale, and WARP on one machine — here's how to make them share DNS without leaking a single query.
#4635: Your Phone Is a Firewall Blind Spot — Here's Why
Android ships with no user-facing firewall, and cellular isn't the safe LAN you think. We dig into what's exposed and what actually protects you.
#4633: How In-Flight Wi-Fi Actually Works at 35,000 Feet
Daniel measured 150 Mbps over the Atlantic. Here's how the antenna, cabin network, and routers make it possible.
#4632: What Your Speed Test Is Really Measuring
Speed tests measure a journey, not a pipe. Here's how ISPs game results and what in-flight Starlink benchmarks reveal.
#4631: How Starlink Delivers Real In-Flight Wi-Fi
Why Starlink beats traditional satellite internet on planes — latency, lasers, and phased arrays explained.
#4630: The EDC Belt Revolution: Nylon Webbing & Ratchet Mechanics
Why nylon webbing and ratchet buckles beat leather and holes — the material science and engineering behind the modern EDC belt.
#4609: The PBX Ledger: What Cloud Phones Really Cost
We traded the PBX for UCaaS and CPaaS. But what did we actually lose — and what did we gain that was impossible before?
#4607: SAP to the Wine Shop: How ERP Tiers Actually Work
Why a wine shop runs on a payment terminal, a mid-market firm runs Priority, and SAP runs the world — without ever being cool.
#4606: Why Resemble Gave Away Its Best Voice Model
Resemble AI sells deepfake detection but open-sourced Chatterbox, a top TTS model. Here's the strategic logic.
#4604: When Sub-Agents Overwhelm the Orchestrator
Daniel's inventory system hit a wall when parallel sub-agents flooded the orchestrator's context window. We break down the math and the fix.
#4602: The Two Manifests: API vs PNR Explained
Passenger manifests aren't one list — they're two distinct data transmissions with different purposes, formats, and legal frameworks.
#4600: Why Can't You Port Your Number to Twilio?
Number portability breaks when you leave the carrier system. Here's why Twilio can't receive Israeli numbers — and what you can do instead.
#4599: Why Phone Numbers Are Stuck in the 1970s
Why SMS fails on virtual numbers, and what a SIP-first, IPv6-style phone number system would actually take.
#4596: How to Record Calls and Conversations for Evidence
The unglamorous craft of capturing audio that actually proves something — gear, technique, and steering the conversation.
#4588: The Hidden Cost of Conversational AI: Why Stateless LLM Calls Matter
Why conversational AI tools are making batch document processing slower, costlier, and less reliable — and what to do about it.