Are cellular towers the next landlines?

Is there an impending doom for cellular carriers?

Vibe coding in the 90's

Hey folks. You know how programming is hard in 1994. You need books, help files, manuals, references to learn about a certain feature. You read all those. Then you go through endless iteration of trial and errors to find out how to accomplish a certain task. Well, I found a

From passwords to passkeys

A partially accurate historical account on how we finally arrived at passkeys as the ultimate solution to accessible and secure authentication from simple passwords.

Safe zero-copy operations in C#

My attempt at talking about one of the most underrated features of C#.

Don't purchase your iPhone with AppleCare+

My adventures dealing with purchasing AppleCare+ along with the iPhone.

Good people doing good things

Thoughts on Scott Hanselman's TEDx talk titled "Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver?"

IPv6 for the remotely interested

I’ve known about IPv6 for the last two decades or so, but I’ve never gone beyond “an overengineered solution to the IPv4 address space problem”. IPv6 was even presented as “every atom could get its own IP address, no IP address shortages anymore”, but I didn’t know

Solving disinformation with Internet literacy

Fake people and fake news have existed on Internet since forever. They didn’t make such a terrible impact at the beginning because Internet…

What are the strong sides of Windows?

This was an answer I wrote years ago on Quora, now I moved it here.

Hover is over

This is my UI design advice inspired from “Eval is evil.” Stop relying on hover for revealing hidden actions, or providing essential...

To test or not to test

This is an excerpt from my book Street Coder, prepared by Christopher Kaufmann from Manning Publications.

I’m writing a book

I’m writing a book titled Street Coder for beginner and medium-level programmers. It’s got released recently as part of Manning Early…