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The Threat Globe: Watching Cyber Attacks Cross a WebGL Planet

Years ago I wanted the SOC wall map from my cybersecurity days—attacks arcing across a globe. I rebuilt it with WebGL, open blocklists, and a live feed. What real-time threat visualization means for the public, governments, and companies—and how AI helped dig an old globex codebase out of the archive.

Fast Prints, Honest Tradeoffs: Living With the Creality Ender 3 V3

The Ender 3 V3 has been flawless in daily use—fast, capable, and paired well with Creality filament and a dryer. The cloud library skews toward fidgets, AI failure detection still disappoints, and I wish more of the experience ran locally.

One Agent, Many APIs: Automating a CRM with n8n, Tools, and Memory

How I wired an n8n AI agent to search orders, clients, and notifications across live APIs, send WhatsApp messages, and remember conversations in Postgres—turning a fragmented CRM stack into a single chat interface.

From Pizza Money to Reserve Asset: Bitcoin After the Manifesto

Satoshi's peer-to-peer cash became a global reserve candidate—through pizza, sanctions, ETF inflows, a dead altseason, prediction-market fever, scarcity in a copy-paste era, and a 2028 halving on the horizon.

Pour Over as Meditation: Four Minutes With James Hoffmann (and a Scale That Judges You)

Why I left a bean-to-cup espresso machine for pour-over: fines, flaky temperature, maintenance—and no ritual. Video of the old setup, plus the V60 ceremony (Hoffmann-style): grind, rinse, bloom, breathe.

After the Golden Age: Symbolic AI, the Winter, and What Comes After the LLM Boom

From Lisp machines and perceptrons to ChatGPT—what the golden era of symbolic AI taught us, why winters happen, what LeCun and Bengio say about LLM limits, and what a serious revival of symbolic methods might look like.

May 19, 2026

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Seven UI Experiments From 2013: D3, Snap.svg, and CSS Before the Component Era

A gallery of seven CodePen UI experiments from 2013—3D CSS sliders, squishy toggles, D3 clock icons, Snap.svg physics, and a spring-based iris—when D3, Snap, and vendor-prefixed CSS were how you built novel interfaces.

May 19, 2026

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When One loop() Is Not Enough: FreeRTOS on the ESP32 for a Nixie Clock

Why I moved a nixie clock from a blocking Arduino loop to FreeRTOS on the ESP32—tasks, queues, and an I2C mutex for a DS3231, OLED, MCP23017, DHT21, WiFi, and NTP. Lessons from nixie.os and earlier sensor projects.

Nixie Clock: Digits That Glow, Software That Keeps Them Alive

A work-in-progress nixie clock—multiplexed digits, camera flicker that your eyes never see, and firmware plans to fight cathode poisoning. Short build log from the bench.