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Andrew Baker | Group CIO, Capitec Bank | May 2026 NVIDIA sits at the top of the most important value chain in the world right now. But it does not…
1. The uncomfortable starting point If this model is even directionally correct, a large percentage of enterprise compute is structurally mispriced, and most organisations are paying a permanent premium for…
Read more →Why It Exists, What It Gets Wrong, and How to Diagnose and Fix It Andrew Baker · andrewbaker.ninja · 2 May 2026 1. Why TCP Was a Problem QUIC is…
Read more →By Andrew Baker | andrewbaker.ninja I am going to tell you that AWS won. Not in the “we had a good quarter” sense, and not in the “interesting competitive development”…
Read more →macOS · Security · Productivity · April 2026 You created a markdown file on your Mac. Maybe you moved it around, received it via Slack, or downloaded it from somewhere. You try to open it in Notepad++ and instead of your content, macOS hands you this: Apple could not verify “App_Vendor_Arch_Review.md” is free of malware […]
Read more →Most teams assume containers are lightweight by default, but that assumption does not survive contact with a real production system. Containers become bloated, slow, insecure, and operationally expensive when left…
Read more →Published 25 April 2026 Executive Summary DeepSeek released preview versions of its V4 model family on 24 April 2026, one day after OpenAI shipped GPT-5.5 and in the same week…
Read more →Goal: Expose a service running on your Raspberry Pi to the public internet, securely, without port-forwarding or a static IP, using Cloudflare Tunnel. What You’ll End Up With Prerequisites Requirement…
Read more →If you have ever had a Raspberry Pi die on you, you know exactly what the recovery process looks like. You flash a new SD card or NVMe, reinstall your…
Read more →1. Who Farted? If someone farts in a meeting room, everyone notices immediately. It is uncomfortable, distracting, and changes the entire atmosphere, yet strangely nobody wants to address it directly.…
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