How Recommendations Actually Work (No, Your Phone Isn’t Listening to You)
Your phone isn’t listening to you. It doesn’t need to. Recommendation engines today are powered by data, probability, and behavior—this is how they really work.
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Vibe Coding: The Illusion of Building Without Understanding
There’s a new term floating around: “vibe coding.” If you haven’t heard it yet, you will. At its core, vibe coding is the [...]
AI Doesn’t Create Like Humans — And That’s Exactly the Point
AI can generate. Humans transform. Treating them as the same isn’t insight—it’s misunderstanding.
AI Didn’t Take Your Job. But It Did Change the Game.
AI didn’t replace workers overnight—but it reshaped how work gets done. The real shift isn’t job loss; it’s how value is created now.
From Selenium Nightmares to ScrapingBee: A Practical Take on Web Scraping Tools
A quick story Back in 2011, a cousin of mine told me something that stuck. She said she needed “an algorithm that fetches results from [...]
Why This Blog Had to Be Rebuilt
This blog originally started in 2014. Back then, Ghost was just getting started. It felt fresh, minimal, developer-friendly. I was using version 0.x. To [...]
The RTX 5090 Black Screen Saga: Surviving the Bleeding Edge
I bought a brand-new high-end PC from Cyberpuerta. This wasn’t a “gaming PC.” This was a beast. System Specs * GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 [...]
Why I quit coding
The year was 2011. I was 23 years old, behind on my college studies, and my family was going through financial difficulties. I was desperate [...]
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