Video Processing
The gap between Hollywood's portrayal of image enhancement and real-world Super Resolution capabilities. Why police keep asking to 'enhance' surveillance footage, what science can actually do, and how marketing distorts the picture.
HR Management
A sharp critique of the growing trend toward overly 'safe and friendly' work environments in IT, arguing that suppressing direct criticism leads to hidden intrigues, professional degradation, and infantilization of the industry.
Software
A 15-year veteran programmer laments the state of modern software: bloated apps, glacial performance, rampant unreliability, and a development culture that has abandoned engineering discipline.
Social Engineering
After receiving a scam call, the author spent a month calling scammers back, wasting their time with elaborate stories, recording conversations, and documenting their tactics to fight back against phone fraud.
Mobile Development
A young indie developer built a popular school diary app that motivated students to study better — only to have the government tech contractor steal his ideas, block his API access, and shut him down.
Information Security
Short answer: they don't, they don't care. A detailed account of multiple Skype security vulnerabilities that Microsoft refused to fix for years, including mass-report account blocking, weak security codes, and social engineering via support chat.
Programming
A humorous take on animals as poorly designed software platforms, cataloging their biological quirks as bugs, architectural flaws, and undocumented features through the lens of software development.
Communication Standards
The magnetron inside a regular microwave oven produces electromagnetic waves of about 800 watts at 2450 MHz — equivalent to 10,000 Wi-Fi routers. Here's what happens when you take it out and build a directional antenna.
DIY
A board game company employee shares his unexpected deep dive into plumbing and home repairs, detailing how understanding pipe systems, fittings, and water supply became a genuine hobby with practical benefits.
Information Security
A security researcher discovers an Android trojan disguised as a popular marketplace app, investigates the botnet infrastructure, and accidentally takes it down while searching for vulnerabilities.
IT Infrastructure
A gripping true story of an engineer's overnight mission: delivering a tape library robot to a remote data center, only to find himself fighting to save an entire financial system from a catastrophic cluster failure.
iOS
A mathematical analysis of Flappy Bird using Minkowski geometry, proving that infinite winning strategies exist when the bird starts outside certain danger zones.