Posts by Ken W. Alger

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13 hours Articles 2 min read
In the mid-19th century, factory inspectors would often strike a small letter into the steel of a revolver barrel. That mark was more than a letter; it was a physical guarantee that the cylinder had survived a proof load. It was the "Ground Truth" of...
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3 days Articles 1 min read
is there anyone would like to test our project ? we accept any kind of comment like scathing review, critiques or something. but we just hope you can try it ....
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In the last post, we looked at how to make smart contracts upgradeable safely. But an upgradeable proxy is just an empty building. Today, we are walking inside the building to look at the engine. If you are new to Web3, you might wonder why we even ...
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Hello, community! Tired of staring into the fridge wondering what to cook with leftover ingredients, I decided to build my own solution: Recipe-Finder.org1. It's a fast, clean way to search for recipes—and I recently packaged it into an Android app...
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3 days Articles 9 min read
Originally published at https://certpulse.dev/blog/post-quantum-tls-migration-what-engineers-actually-need-to-do-before-2030. Cross-posted here. The post-quantum cryptography conversation has gotten loud, and most of it is wrong. Vendors are sellin...
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RealDataAgentBench forces agents to think like actual data scientists, not just copy answers. Here’s what I learned after running 163 experiments across 10 models. Two months ago I got tired of watching LLM agents ace toy benchmarks but fall apart o...
Apr 23 Articles 1 min read
I’m tired of seeing "AI startups" that are just fancy wrappers for a chat prompt. If your AI can only talk but can't touch the file system or hit an API, you haven't built an agent, you've built a digital encyclopedia. The real shift right now is to...
Apr 23 Articles 2 min read
I spend my weekends looking at the tooling marks on 19th-century revolvers and the serifs on rare 1920s dust jackets. In those worlds, "Truth" isn't a consensus—it’s a physical reality. If a parts-matching serial number is off by a single digit, or a...
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Apr 23 Articles 4 min read
Last week I saw a 10-minute AI demo that looked magical. A single prompt. A polished UI. And suddenly the system could summarize documents, answer questions, and generate insights. But anyone who has tried to ship AI in production knows the uncomfo...
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Apr 21 Articles 2 min read
Web1 1980’s - early 2000’s The first phase of the Internet, Web1, was mainly about providing the everyday consumer with online content and information. As consumers could only read information or content online, and not yet interact with it, Web1 w...
Apr 21 Articles 5 min read
Ditching the Seed Phrase: How Account Abstraction Makes Web3 Logins as Easy as Google The initial experience of setting up a crypto wallet, involving a 12 or 24-word "seed phrase," has been a significant barrier to mainstream Web3 adoption due to its...
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Apr 21 Articles 5 min read
I spent 200 days testing 15 AI companion apps. Paid for every subscription myself. Talked to each one for weeks, sometimes months. The single biggest thing separating the good ones from the bad ones? Memory. Not "memory" as in context window size. ...
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Apr 21 Articles 4 min read
Last week I saw a 10-minute AI demo that looked magical. A single prompt. A polished UI. And suddenly the system could summarize documents, answer questions, and generate insights. But anyone who has tried to ship AI in production knows the uncomfo...
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Apr 21 Articles 3 min read
The Real Cost of Web3 — What They Don’t Tell You Web3 was supposed to be a revolution. A decentralized web, owned by its users, powered by transparency, trust, and autonomy. The vision was beautiful: an internet where middlemen disappear, creators...
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Apr 21 Articles 1 min read
Lately I’ve been juggling a few practical challenges while experimenting with offline AI models, and it’s been more insightful than I expected. 1. System-level friction I ran into issues with symlinks breaking unexpectedly and model transfers bet...
Apr 14 Articles 3 min read
The 5-Minute "Hello World" Comparison We’ve spent the last month talking about the End of Glue Code and the Enterprise AI Mesh. But if you’re a developer, you don't just want to see the blueprint—you want to hold the tools. Whether you are a TypeScri...
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