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Insight: When the Cloud Stumbles—Google Cloud's Recent Outage and What It Means for the Digital World The Day the Digital World Felt Broken It was a Tuesday like any other for Sarah, a graphic designer in Dallas. She was putting the finishing touches on a crucial presentation, meticulously saving every few minutes to her Google Drive. Suddenly, the familiar spinning wheel appeared... and stayed. Frustration mounted as she tried to refresh, only to be met with an error message. Panic began to set in – the deadline was looming.  Across town, Mark, CEO of a burgeoning e-commerce startup, watched in disbelief as his website, hosted entirely on Google Cloud, went dark. Customer complaints flooded his inbox, and every minute of downtime meant lost sales and a dent in his company's hard-earned reputation.  Meanwhile, millions worldwide experienced similar digital tremors – Spotify abruptly cutting off mid-song, Discord chats failing to send, and even accessing emails becoming an exer...

New Article on Medium: Why a $62B Company CEO Says We're All Becoming Supervisors The AI conversation has become polarized between doom and utopia, but what's the reality from someone actually building these systems at enterprise scale? Ali Ghodsi, CEO of Databricks, offers a refreshingly grounded perspective that cuts through both the fear and the hype. His insight: AI agents are more like managing a team of capable but mistake-prone interns than the replacement scenario everyone's debating. This deep dive explores: Why complete automation is "many orders of magnitude harder" than expected The aviation industry parallel that explains AI's limitations What the "supervisor economy" means for developers and tech workers Real-world insights from Fortune 500 AI implementations If you're tired of theoretical AI takes and want practical insights from someone actually deploying these systems, this is essential reading. Read it on Medium * * *  Written ...

Insight: Beyond the Hype—What Agentic AI Really Means for the Future of Work Replacing Fantasy With Function In a sea of bold claims and AI speculation, Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi recently offered a refreshing counterpoint. Speaking with Business Insider, Ghodsi framed today’s AI landscape not as a revolution of autonomous machines but as a transformation in human productivity. His metaphor was striking: modern AI is like giving every employee a tireless team of interns. That imagery sidesteps sci-fi exaggeration and brings the conversation back to Earth. Rather than eliminating jobs outright, Ghodsi argues, AI is reshaping how work gets done. It enhances what people can accomplish by handling repetitive or tedious tasks at scale. But just like managing real interns, success depends on thoughtful guidance. AI isn’t magic—it’s amplification. This subtle but essential framing shifts the spotlight back where it belongs: on human oversight, judgment, and clarity of purpose. Intelligent, Not...

Insight: Ubuntu Levels Up Security—Embracing sudo-rs for a Safer Future Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, has made a significant announcement that's set to bolster the security foundations of millions of systems worldwide. Starting with Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka," the default sudo utility will be replaced with  sudo-rs , a memory-safe reimplementation written in Rust. This move isn't just a technical curiosity; it represents a proactive step towards a more secure and resilient Linux ecosystem. What is sudo and Why is This Change Important? For anyone who's ever managed a Linux system,  sudo  is a familiar friend. It's the command that allows authorized users to execute commands with the privileges of another user, most commonly the superuser (root). Given its critical role in privilege escalation,  sudo  is a prime target for attackers looking to gain unauthorized access to a system. Traditionally,  sudo  has bee...

Build:  Develop Safer Wasm Apps with debugDispose in WebAssembly in Workers Why Cleanup Isn’t Enough By now, we’ve explored both FinalizationRegistry and JavaScript's emerging Explicit Resource Management (ERM) features as tools for handling memory in WebAssembly-powered serverless environments like Cloudflare Workers. But even with best practices in place, there remains one lingering question: How do you know your cleanup is actually working? WebAssembly leaks are notoriously silent. The linear memory buffer doesn’t shrink itself, and Cloudflare Workers offer limited visibility into per-request memory state. To truly trust your memory discipline, you need a way to validate that disposal code is executing consistently—under real application conditions. Enter debugDispose : a lightweight, developer-facing mechanism to observe cleanup paths in action. This post dives into how you can implement and use  debugDispose  to validate memory lifecycles,...

Solve: Explicit Resource Management and Safer Wasm Memory in Serverless JavaScript A New Chapter in Wasm Memory Safety WebAssembly offers serious performance benefits inside serverless environments like Cloudflare Workers—but it also opens the door to memory management pitfalls. Developers used to JavaScript's automatic garbage collection must adapt to manual allocation and deallocation patterns that WebAssembly modules demand. And while FinalizationRegistry gave us a partial safety net, it was never meant to be a full seatbelt. Now, JavaScript's upcoming Explicit Resource Management (ERM) proposal introduces a powerful, predictable, and expressive solution. With using blocks and standardized disposal protocols, ERM brings JavaScript closer to the structured cleanup paradigms long used in languages like C#, Python, and Rust. This article explores how ERM transforms Wasm memory safety—and how you can start preparing for it today. The...

New Article on Medium: My DragonOS SDR Journey When a $20 USB Stick Opens the Entire Radio Spectrum: One Maker's DragonOS Journey It started with a 2 AM YouTube video about tracking airplanes. Ninety minutes later, Mike Rodriguez was ordering an RTL-SDR dongle with two-day shipping and downloading DragonOS for his Raspberry Pi 5. What followed was a year-long deep dive into software-defined radio that transformed a casual Pi tinkerer into someone decoding International Space Station communications, capturing weather satellite imagery, and reverse-engineering industrial telemetry protocols. This isn't your typical "hello world" maker story. DragonOS - a curated Linux distribution packed with 40+ SDR applications - became the foundation for projects that pushed both hardware and knowledge to their limits. The Learning Curve Reality Check "Radio frequency isn't like GPIO pins or I2C communications," Mike discovered. "You can't just wire something u...