The Engineering Notebook — page 28 of 32
Notes on building with AI, agents & the modern stack.
Deep dives on AI/ML, RAG systems, agent engineering, and senior-engineer architecture decisions — a new post every week.
Technology Tinder's IRL Events Pivot: Can Speed Dating Fix What Swiping Broke?
Tinder acquired the IRL events app See You There to fight dating app fatigue. But can the company that invented the swipe really fix the burnout it helped create?
Technology Live Nation's Ticketmaster Monopoly Isn't About Ticket Fees. It's a Tech Platform Flywheel.
The DOJ's antitrust case against Live Nation-Ticketmaster isn't really about service fees. It's about a self-reinforcing tech platform monopoly that controls every link in the chain from artist to fan.
Technology MediaTek Audio DSP Vulnerability: How a Nothing Phone Could Have Been Hacked (Except It Wasn't)
Check Point Research found vulnerabilities in MediaTek's audio DSP that could have turned 37% of the world's phones into eavesdropping devices. Here's why your Nothing Phone 2a is safe today.
Breaking Tech News The Biggest US Legal Challenge to Loot Boxes Didn't Come From New York. It Came From Washington State.
Washington State took on Valve over CS:GO skin gambling in 2016. That showdown — not any New York AG action — set the stage for every loot box regulation fight since.
Cloud and DevOps A Single Automated Process Broke Dozens of Major Services. Inside the AWS us-east-1 Outage.
On December 7, 2021, an automated scaling activity inside AWS overwhelmed their own internal network, knocked out their monitoring, and cascaded across dozens of services. Here's what actually happened.
Technology Google Agreed to Pay $32 Billion for Wiz: Why Cloud Security Was Worth Every Dollar [2026]
Google's $32 billion acquisition of Wiz is the largest cybersecurity deal in history. Here's what it reveals about the future of cloud security and why CNAPP platforms are commanding enormous valuations.
Technology Nintendo's Zelda Movie Bet: How a Single Announcement Rewrote the Company's Valuation
Nintendo's stock hit a 16-year high not because of new hardware, but because a live-action Zelda movie signaled a strategic pivot from console maker to entertainment empire.
Cybersecurity Patch Tuesday Zero-Day Lessons: What February 2024's Two Exploited Flaws Still Teach Us [2026]
Two zero-days from February 2024's Patch Tuesday — a MotW bypass and a kernel privilege escalation — were actively exploited before Microsoft shipped fixes. Two years later, the lessons still apply.
Technology Intel Arrow Lake vs AMD Ryzen 9000: Intel's Budget Problem Still Isn't Solved [2026]
Intel launched Arrow Lake on expensive LGA 1851 with flagship-first pricing. Even after the non-K parts arrived, AMD's AM5 platform still dominates the value tiers. Here's what that means for your next build.
Technology DLSS Ray Reconstruction: The NVIDIA Feature That Matters More Than Frame Generation [2026]
Frame Generation grabbed the headlines, but DLSS Ray Reconstruction is the real breakthrough — and it works on every RTX GPU you already own.
Technology Sonos Move 2 Review: Is a $499 Portable Speaker Actually Worth It? [2026]
The Sonos Move 2 costs $499 and weighs nearly 7 pounds. I break down exactly who should buy it, who should skip it, and what the alternatives look like.
Technology No, Yann LeCun Didn't Just Raise $1 Billion. The Real Story Is More Interesting.
The viral claim about Yann LeCun raising $1 billion is a case of mistaken identity. The real story — a new French AI startup called H raising a record $220M seed round — is far more significant.