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Happy Pi Day! 🥧 It feels like the perfect day to share a short status update on our open-source project, Merka.cloud. Lately, it has been exciting to watch how popular OpenClaw has become. In many ways, its rise validates the direction we’re heading, as it shares several similarities with Merka.cloud. However, the vision for Merka extends far beyond just building a personalized agent.

Overview # As AI continues to evolve at absolutely astonishing rate, I wanted to take it back to basics. If we make an assumption that programmers augmented by AI should be almost “Immediate Polyglots”, it makes more sense to revive age old battle of which Programming Language is the best. It is also something I keep reflecting on for myself in an effort to Never Stop Learning!

Overview # Part 3 of Next Programming Revolution series, reinventing distributing computing! Jump to Part 1 and then come back here. What does it take to Rethink distributed computing - notice I didn’t say Cloud computing, Merka aims to include your own (or company owned) devices as a First-Class citizens. The goal is to utilize your available compute/storage efficiently, and also avoiding the all too familiar “where did I leave that?…” syndrome.

Overview # As a continuation of my Programming Revolution series, today we explore one major area where Human Developers can still outperform the AI (IMHO)! Though, I believe this should be very much a collaborative effort due to AI’s ability to analyze vast amount of data (including sources) and find common concepts and ideas.

Overview (TLDR) # Composability is one of those longest and toughest challenges in software, and it doesn’t look to me as we have solved it just yet. Industry move to Virtualization and Containerization brought with it many benefits, but also additional overheads that we must keep in mind and analyze. In this part 1 of the series, I recount where we are and how we got here.

Overview # It has been a breakthrough year in Artificial Intelligence, and many industries are already transforming. Interestingly, Seems like Google missed the importance of their own AI research! Still - I would like to argue that No Other Company Today is better positioned to replace Search with AI agents. The closest competitor, in my opinion, is Apple - although currently their AI is really struggling.

TLDR # (Disclaimer: Title written by my 11yo son who insisted it must be a click-bait 😃) Today we noticed that TikTok website is leaking registered emails. Considering TikTok scale it is likely possible to slowly siphon out all their registered emails in the background over period of time, without them noticing.

TLDR # I discovered the amazing world of algorithmic trading probably about 10 years ago. I was already enjoying the exploration of market dynamics, their correlation with human psyche, economic cycles, and companies hype/performance. This post is my musings about AI impact on Black Box algo-trading, and even if one perfects their AI to make endless profits - is it ethical? No prior Quant expertise required to participate, but basic stock market understanding is a plus!

Thank You # WOW - I am truly at loss for words. Most posts just pour out of me, but this is the toughest one to write yet.

TLDR # Netflix again cancelled several of our favorite shows, me and the family are Fuming! In this post I explore what might be Netflix decision process, and try to identify potential flaws in it. At the end I offer some solution ideas, because I like to improve things, not just complain about things.

I am Back!!! After unfathomably long hiatus - the World and I have changed much! Hope you are ready for even Crazier writing from me! As you notice, the site is vastly improved! I was eyeing JamStack for several years, but it is such a major departure from WordPress architecture that I was hesitant. The process was every bit as painful as I thought, but it is Worth It! Initially I tried to use Gatsby, but I couldn’t find theme to my liking. So I continued the search and ended up with Hugo, and amazing Blowfish theme.

TLDR: Arris/Motorola SurfBoard Cable Modems (and perhaps others) are constantly showing up with Duplicate MAC Addresses, even though each manufacturer must only make Single device with same address. Looks like it is time for another fiasco/fight with Comcast for us, something that has become at least annual affair. It all started about a month ago, when we saw Comcast truck nearby adding another “happy” customer to their poor network.

Featured Art: By Destiny Blue on DeviantArt Overview # First, a quick primer to anxiety itself – it is actually an important human feature which evolution perfected over many millennia. Humans (just like animals) needed to be able to elevate themselves above their normal “calm” state to “energized” state, boosting every function of the body to fight for survival. However seldom in modern society are you faced with real threats of this nature, nor will it help you to climb the nearest tree with just your bare hands in order to survive.

Yet again I come to you with rant, but this time seems like the reason is Microsoft’s huge lapse in basic Skype account security. Probably like mst of you, I have created my Skype account Many years ago.

Featured Photo: By Ed Hardie on Unsplash My son started screaming few hours back, scaring us half to death. Apparently he reacted this way to what seemed like a virus infecting his computer, after he ignored all long standing advice from me and clicked on nasty link from another Steam user sent via chat.

Let me open by saying that these movies are a classic definition of Propaganda. They follow the tried and true model of massaging real facts to their own needs, and using strategic omissions or worse. That said, I have long wondered whether monetary system is the best way to organize Planet’s resources at this stage of evolution for our mighty civilization. It is rather clear to me that human race is much further along thanks to invention of Money and evolution of Markets and Banking, but is Monetary System in it’s current form truly the best method to propel us onto the next stage of evolution as a species?

It is really basic premise, and I didn’t even invent it. Alas I have to warn other potential Tivo customers, after giving company many chances to make things right and a month of monumental efforts (mostly mine). Also, this is Not an investment advice regarding Tivo Inc (NASDAQ:TIVO).

Introduction # Although this post came about primarily to help my son learn Java, it still amazes me how many professional developers do not understand this basic premise in Java (Programming Language) even after working with it for Years. I am yet to find any Java book that opens with Big Chapter on this very critical topic, instead they mention it in a few hardly intelligible sentences. Meanwhile Java continues to gain momentum as most popular language, primarily because of how easy it seems to use! Let me be the first to tell you that Yes, it is Easy, provided you fully grasp the concepts outlined below.

EDITOR NOTE: Recovered from Draft, so Old but Newish Post! While I walk this Earth like (most) of you, I have set myself a goal of Life Long Learning. Perhaps this is one of the reason I find computers so fascinating, as it is a never ending universe that we are constantly creating. Hundreds (thousands?) of Programming Languages were invented thus far and the pace only accelerates. There is constant influx of new and exciting technologies, both physical and virtual.

Yes, this is not a typo – printing To your iPhone, I know it sounds weird! It is actually very handy, saves plenty of trees and makes “printouts” easier to carry around and find in the future. There are specific cases where you want to “print” a confirmation of an appointment from a website, both to remind yourself and to show at the business you are heading to. Other times it could be a receipt for online order, or any other “generated” page which you can’t easily link to, but may need to reference in the future. Some places will accept coupon printed this way, where you can simply show it to the cashier or scan it from the phone.