January 2026

A designer friend recently told me she spent three days trying to figure out why her company’s checkout flow made users confirm their email address twice. It seemed obviously redundant—just bad UX someone forgot to clean up. She asked the PM. She asked the engineer who built it. She even dug through old PRs looking for context. The best answer she got was: “There was something with the vendor API, but I don’t remember the details. Maybe check […]

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Around 2 years ago, our sales team was given a daunting task by our CEO – win an incremental 15 points of share in a market segment where we have less than 25% share today. The task seemed even more insurmountable given the fact that this customer segment had an entrenched competitor who had more than 50% share. As the strategy professional for the team, I was tasked with building the approach that the sales team could execute […]

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Introduction: The AI Boom Needs Order A few years back producing a decent AI-generated image was quite a struggle. Google expert Matilde shared how she had to sift through countless bad results during testing. The best outcomes ended up looking like a “Francis Bacon painting and at worst, like scenes from John Carpenter movies.” Now, it’s possible to create amazing high-quality images within seconds. This huge improvement shows how fast Generative AI is advancing across different industries. Companies […]

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I’ve been building auth systems for a while now, and there’s this debate that keeps coming up: JWTs or sessions? Every tutorial forces you to pick one, then spends 2000 words explaining why the other one is terrible. Here’s the thing though: this entire debate is pointless. You don’t have to choose. There’s a third option that gives you the best of both, and honestly, it’s simpler than either approach on its own. Let me show you what […]

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Introduction When writers think about LaTeX, they think about academic papers. Dense research documents filled with equations, citations, and footnotes. They don’t think about fantasy novels, thriller manuscripts, or literary fiction. That’s a missed opportunity. LaTeX—the typesetting system beloved by mathematicians and scientists—offers creative writers something word processors can’t match: programmable consistency. The same features that let physicists define custom notation for quantum equations let novelists define custom styling for character dialogue, narrative voices, and recurring textual elements. […]

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Suppose a social media platform’s Ads analytics team wants to know: Does seeing a certain ad (or promoted post) cause users to convert or engage more? This causal question is tricky because users who see the ad might inherently differ from those who don’t. In practice, simply comparing conversion rates of exposed vs. unexposed users can be very misleading. Ad exposure is not randomly assigned – algorithms may show ads more to highly active users, or users self-select into […]

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Our treasured language lets us leverage powerful tools and guard us from countless implementation details. Although exceptions have a bad name among many developers, a detailed analysis of how they work can greatly expand your understanding of how C++ really works. That’s what we’ll do! Before diving into the depths of exceptions let pick a right angle to how they could possibly work. In general, there are two options: the landing pad or via the frame handler. Sorry, […]

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“How can AI work to shape a future worth living around the world?” A 2025 – 2026 review through the lens of Knowledge Management, Graphs, Communities, Ontology, Connected Thinking and Pragmatic AI. When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted we’re in an AI bubble in August 2025, I wasn’t surprised. I’d been watching the cracks form for months from my seat running graph technology events, teaching AI courses, and consulting on knowledge management across Europe and beyond. Some people […]

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Ransomware is evolving from “lock your files and demand payment” to “steal everything and threaten to leak it.” About 50% of attacks now skip encryption entirely. Payments are declining, but the damage is worse than ever. Welcome to 2026. The Old Playbook Is Dead Remember when ransomware was simple? Attackers encrypt your files, you pay up (or don’t), life moves on. Those days are over. In 2025, something shifted. Groups like Cl0p stopped bothering with encryption altogether. Why […]

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Prompt injection. The bane of every developer building with LLMs. It’s not a bug in your code. It’s a sophisticated attack that exploits the very nature of how LLMs interpret and prioritize natural language instructions. If you’re still relying on keyword blacklists and static filters, you’re already losing the battle. Attackers aren’t just trying to override instructions anymore. They’re subtly redirecting models, influencing multi-step interactions, and generally making a mess of your carefully crafted AI applications. This isn’t […]

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