What does it mean when Android gets locked down? I was always told the benefit to Android over Apple’s iOS was the ability to side-load apps. Android was the technologist’s choice, even though developers are deep adopters of the Apple ecosystem. Android was supposed to be open, free from the walled garden, and completely your …
A major story by WSJ revealed that OpenAI missed key revenue and user targets. I am starting to wonder what scenario would cause an AI bubble if there was one, and the answer lies in whether or not financial projections keep up with the debt loads being taken on to build out data centers. It …
This is just a neat video about an interesting man’s home. George Nakashima built a Japanese style home and workshop in Pennsylvania. Born in Spokane, grew up as a Boy Scout, graduate MIT, travelled around the world to Europe and India, where he taught people how to build reinforced concrete. Back at home, he and …
Week 3 – Risk Management and Resilience We read two papers, one titled “Building Resilient Supply Chains Won’t Be Easy” by Levi and one titled “From Risk to Resilience: Learning to Deal with Disruptions” by Fiksel. We learned about stress testing to identify points of weakness and risk. We also went into supply chain vulnerabilities …
I completed a Pluralsight course to understand REST Fundamentals. It was an interesting session as it taught about how APIs work. Some of the topics included the REST verbs like GET, DELETE, POST, PUT/PATCH. It talked about the error codes used, like 200 for success and 400 for client error. We also reviewed endpoints, authentication, …
The next iteration of OpenAI’s AI model is available and it sounds like they are including some of the functionality of OpenClaw into it. This particular quote from their press release makes me think this is the case and the fruit of their partnering/hiring Peter Steinberger, inventor of the open-source project. GPT‑5.5 understands what you’re …
Cursor, the AI driven IDE, may be purchased by SpaceX at some point in 2026. The idea would be that SpaceX, when it goes public, could use investment dollars to catch up with AI competitors and this is a play to strengthen it. I admit, I do not foresee how an AI wrapper masquerading as …
I, like most people, found the images created in ChatGPT to be fun, but ultimately once the novelty wore off didn’t find much use for them. This next release creates images that are fairly hard to tell as real or not. I am already struggling with it. I had my first realization I couldn’t always …
Week 2 – Sustainability I am not a fan of what is considered “sustainability” unless it relates to building resiliency to market forces. I believe much of the environmental impacts people fret over with NIMBYism is just shipped overseas with more relaxed measures in place and to let those places suffer. It makes sense to …
John Ternus will now be the new CEO of Apple, replacing Tim Cook, who will be come Executive Chairman. This is an interesting development in the leadership pipeline. Tim Cook is a famous supply chain expert, and he’s been able to squeeze the most profit he can out of Apple because of it. I am …