1. A Side Project That Ended a Conjecture In 2023, Andrew Krapivin was an undergraduate at Rutgers University reading a paper on his own time, for fun, that his professor…
Read more →by Andrew Baker 1. Opening: The Client Has Been Captured The fraud victim approving a transaction they believe is a refund is not making a mistake. They are not confused…
Read more →There is a version of this story that most technology vendors would prefer you heard. In that version, Switzerland evaluated Palantir’s data analytics platform, found it impressive, but ultimately declined due to vague concerns about national sovereignty: a regulatory sentiment, a political posture, nothing that applies to a commercial enterprise operating under normal procurement constraints. […]
Read more →How a 35-year-old IP licensor just walked into the most contested real estate in computing ARM spent 35 years becoming the most trusted neutral infrastructure company in computing, and then…
Read more →1. The question nobody can answer Four developers, three months, one very convincing product demo, and then the question that makes every engineering leader wince: why does the real platform…
Read more →Title inflation is not a strategy. It is a symptom. 1. Fifty chiefs There is a company somewhere right now with fifty people holding the title of Chief Information Officer, and the word chief, by any reasonable definition, implies a singular thing, a point of ownership where the decision stops moving around the room and […]
Read more →I have spent a long time thinking about what separates the leaders who build things that outlast them from the ones who leave wreckage where organisations used to be. There…
Read more →Why debouncing is one of the highest value patterns in responsive web development Most developers have built a search box that fires an API call on every keystroke and at some point felt the full weight of that decision. The network tab fills with hundreds of requests, the backend slows under the load, the UI […]
Read more →Published June 13, 2026 1. What Happened Yesterday At 5:21 PM Eastern Time on June 12, 2026, Anthropic received a letter from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick ordering the company to…
Read more →Andrew Baker — andrewbaker.ninja — 13 June 2026 How to use a large language model inside your own AWS account to interrogate your infrastructure while it is on fire So…
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