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Remembering 9/11

https://ulveon.net/p/2026-09-11-remembering-9/11/

Published: September 11, 2026 00:00

Today, 11th September 2026, marks twenty-five years since the September 11 attacks that took the lives of thousands and additionally injured tens of thousands. Whatever you may think of the attacks1, it is incontrovertible that hundreds of heroes responded…

Embracing your inner bad horse

https://ulveon.net/p/2026-09-09-embracing-your-inner-bad-horse/

Published: September 9, 2026 00:00

In the Samyuktagama Sutra, volume 33, it is said that there are four kinds of horses: excellent, good, poor, and bad. The four horses The best horse will be dexterous and agile; it will obey every command of the jockey. It will stand still when…

Nuance in the Internet era

https://ulveon.net/p/2026-09-02-nuance-in-the-internet-era/

Published: September 2, 2026 20:00

The internet, especially social media, appears divided into two camps: pro-AI and anti-AI. Pro-AI people see AI as the next frontier, and anti-AI people as uncultured luddites. Anti-AI people see AI as a dangerous tool of oppression that is accelerating…

Own your spaces

https://ulveon.net/p/2026-08-29-own-your-spaces/

Published: August 29, 2026 08:00

The Internet is a highly decentralised network of computers, but most large social media platforms centralise information and control. Terms of service and what is considered acceptable behaviour vary greatly between platforms. Within those limits,…

Coding was never the hard part

https://ulveon.net/p/2026-08-13-coding-was-never-the-hard-part/

Published: August 13, 2026 13:00

I’ve read my fair share of passionate rejections of AI-assisted coding from my fellow software engineers. And I get it! LLMs deserve a ton of criticism for many reasons! But, at times, I feel like we live in completely different worlds.

A eulogy for the most misunderstood Windows version

https://ulveon.net/p/2026-06-04-a-eulogy-for-the-most-misunderstood-windows-version/

Published: June 4, 2026 13:00

Windows Vista was released in 2007. Today, nearly twenty years later, people keep believing it was a “bad” operating system. I have always disagreed with this. Yes, Windows Vista had many flaws and issues, but it was still a well-designed and dependable…

Why did AI destroy my production database?

https://ulveon.net/p/2026-05-05-why-did-ai-destroy-my-production-database/

Published: May 5, 2026 13:00

I already posted my thoughts on AI and why I don’t think it’s going away any time soon. Unfortunately, it seems some people who don’t like LLMs are using AI-induced outages and deletions as an opportunity to reaffirm their biases, and, in doing so, may be…

AI space datacenters are literally impossible

https://ulveon.net/p/2025-12-15-ai-space-datacenters-are-literally-impossible/

Published: December 15, 2025 22:00

There’s talk of space datacenters lately again, which is an immensely stupid idea. It is stupid because it is a physics and thermodynamics problem, not an engineering challenge. In this post, I will prove why space datacenters will never happen. Not now,…

Adventures with vibe-coding: TLD racketeering

https://ulveon.net/p/2025-12-12-adventures-with-vibe-coding-tld-racketeering/

Published: December 12, 2025 19:00

Disclaimer: This post isn’t really about vibe-coding or AI-assisted coding; it’s about the domain name system, WHOIS, and how modern TLD operators have quietly recreated the same domain-squatting problem we spent decades trying to get rid of. While…

The secure open source fallacy

https://ulveon.net/p/2025-12-03-the-secure-open-source-fallacy/

Published: December 3, 2025 07:00

Most open source advocates, and many security professionals, often say things like “open source software is secure because you can just read the code”. This argument assumes that the ability to read source code directly translates into the ability to…