Lately, I’ve been playing with Unity and I ended up exploring the world of 3D modeling in Blender. Blender is intimidating and has one of the least user-friendly interfaces I have ever encountered. It’s enough to say that it’s almost impossible to use without learning keyboard shortcuts for even the most basic tasks. However, it’s also such a fantastic tool that I decided to push myself a bit and use it. [Read More]

This blog is written with Obsidian and published with Jekyll. It’s a pretty simple setup, but sometimes the defaults are not great. For example, the feed generation is poor with short snippets, broken formatting, and so on. [Read More]

The goal is to develop an annotation that marks certain functions to execute predefined logic via an Interceptor such as adding a correlationId to the MDC. I also want to place the code in a shared library so it can be used across multiple services. [Read More]

Social networks become toxic the moment people start following each other, not due to trolls or engagement algorithms. It’s baked into the structure of these platforms. According to a study, when individuals follow others, a power imbalance emerges, leading to echo chambers, polarisation, and amplification of extremism. It happens even without algorithms because the nature of social networks inherently promotes a concentration of influence. [Read More]

The debate surrounding mandatory identification on adult websites has always sparked concerns about privacy. Many countries have introduced or are considering measures requiring age verification to access adult content, often mandating that users share personal information like IDs or credit cards to prove they are of legal age. This system, while aimed at protecting minors, raises significant privacy and security issues. [Read More]