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#5488: How Emoji Went From 176 Characters to 3,600
From a 176-character set built for Japanese pagers to a 3,600-character Unicode standard — and why your emoji breaks in production.
#5487: Why Your Spreadsheet Mangles José's Name
A deep dive into character sets, from ASCII to UTF-8, and why José becomes "José" in your spreadsheet.
#5486: Why Hebrew URLs Turn Into Percent-Sign Gibberish
Hebrew renders fine in the domain but explodes into percent-hex in the path. Two different standards explain the split.
#5485: Fine-Tuning Parakeet for Hebrew and Your Own Jargon
NVIDIA's Parakeet beats Whisper on Android — but can you teach it Hebrew, or just your own jargon? Two answers, one much happier.
#5484: When Governments Own the Pipes: Telecom's Open-Access Model
Could the state own all telecom infrastructure while private companies compete on top? New Zealand and Stockholm already tried it.
#5483: One Network: Israel's Deregulation and the Case for State-Fiber
Israel's reforms cut mobile prices 60–80%. Now: what if the state owned the physical network and every carrier rented it?
#5482: When AI Edits Your Words: The Off Switch Problem
A tool that works reliably — and still gets switched off. What over-editing studies reveal about why AI rewrites more than you asked.
#5481: Small Models, Big Guardrails: PII Detection in ChatGPT
A tiny 600M parameter model is quietly scanning your ChatGPT tool calls for PII. Here's how that class of guardian model actually works.
#5480: Writing a Personal Instruction for ChatGPT
Daniel's personal ChatGPT prompt gets a line-by-line critique — and the case for shorter, sharper custom instructions.
#5479: Why Number Porting Takes 30 Minutes
Routing a ported number takes milliseconds. So why does the SIM swap take hours? We trace the signalling behind "keep your number.
#5478: When AI Hands Out Your Phone Number
A chatbot gave out a stranger's real phone number. What happens when the model can't forget it?
#5477: Who Owns the Antennas? Israel's MVNO Puzzle
Israel's virtual operators won't tell you whose towers they ride. Turns out your phone already knows — if you read the right signals.
#5476: When Login Systems Lock Out Their Own Users
Why do login systems permanently lock out real users? A look at the hidden design failures behind OTP dead ends and circular recovery flows.
#5475: Why Salad Is Breakfast in Israel and Punishment in America
Same chopped tomatoes and cucumbers — a morning staple in Israel and Turkey, a symbol of joyless dieting in America. How did one dish mean two oppo...
#5474: Why Tardive Dyskinesia Becomes Permanent
One in five antipsychotic patients develops TD. Why does it stick around after the drug stops — and how much do newer drugs help?
#5473: The Kindle Refund Trick and the Return Policy Arms Race
From market olives to a two-year Kindle refund scheme — where's the line between sampling and stealing?
#5472: Can Anyone Scan a QR Code From a Landing Plane?
A New York printing startup wants to tow a QR code behind a plane on the airport approach path. We rate the idea.
#5471: Your News Feed Is Filtering for Failure
40% of people now avoid the news. Here's why the feed distorts reality — and what to read instead.
#5470: What a Hot Bath Actually Does for You
A friend's "you're stewing in your own dirt" comment ruined baths for Daniel for years. Here's what the research actually says.
#5469: Open Source's New Map: India, Croatia, Ethiopia
One in three new GitHub developers now comes from a country outside 2020's top ten. What that shift means for open source.