1+ hour, 29+ min ago   (504+ words) This guide compares the main modernisation strategies, when each makes sense, and how to choose. The drivers are consistent across UK enterprises: the COBOL and mainframe skills pool is retiring, mainframe operating costs are high, the systems are hard to…...

2+ hour, 20+ min ago   (627+ words) I asked five AI engines 40 questions real people ask about money. Across 360 unprompted answers, crypto was named as a usable option six times. Here is the data, the method, and what it means if you ship crypto software. Tagged with…...

2+ hour, 35+ min ago   (456+ words) Job boards go stale fast. By the time a weekly digest reaches you, the interesting roles have been open for a month. So let's build the smallest thing that fixes that: a Telegram bot that wakes up, asks one API…...

2+ hour, 50+ min ago   (564+ words) Disclosure: I maintain Selvedge, an open-source decision-history tool. This article was prepared with AI assistance from Grok and Codex. The example below is hypothetical and uses plain Markdown; it does not require a particular product. A repository can show what…...

3+ hour, 8+ min ago   (244+ words) While tech review articles argue about what PR length is safe to let an agent produce, the review problem is set by a simpler number: how often the agent is wrong. Specific Labs' Real-SWE benchmark, published September 2026, runs frontier agents…...

3+ hour, 3+ min ago   (1385+ words) AI can write a React component in seconds. It can create an API, design a database schema, write tests, explain an unfamiliar codebase, debug an error, refactor a function, and generate documentation before you've finished your coffee. And it's getting…...

3+ hour, 29+ min ago   (110+ words) One-liner: A distributed lock ensures that only one node in a cluster can perform a critical operation at a time — preventing race conditions across services. In a single-server world, a mutex or semaphore handles concurrency. But in distributed systems: Classic…...

41+ min ago   (1060+ words) How curiosity, continuous learning, and solving increasingly complex problems shaped my journey from software …...

51+ min ago   (743+ words) Transactions do not execute in isolation from reality. Isolation levels define how much of that reality they are allowed to observe. In the previous topic, we explored Optimistic and Pessimistic Concurrency Control. Now we can go one level deeper. What…...

5+ hour, 22+ min ago   (277+ words) Every dating site asks the same forty questions, and every one keeps the answers behind its own login. Your birthday, your height, whether you smoke, whether you want children, who you are looking for and how far away. You type…...