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Essayist and media observer exploring the intersection of literature, gaming, visual culture, and online identity. Writes immersive features with a strong editorial voice, combining cultural criticism with contemporary digital trends.
There is an old joke that there are only two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. The joke endures because the middle item…
For decades, online gambling in Finland worked in a way that looked increasingly unusual to the rest of Europe. A single state-owned operator, Veikkaus, held a legal monopoly on b…
A few years ago almost no working engineer had heard of a vector database. Now they are everywhere — in every AI architecture diagram, every job posting, every conference talk abo…
Of all the professions disrupted by constant interruption, programming may be among the most damaged by it. Writing software is not the kind of work that can be done in scattered…
Long before neon façades and tournament floors, the gambling culture of Europe was incubated in small, candlelit rooms scattered across the cities of the north. In Venice, Turin a…
For about a decade, the personal website looked like a relic. Why bother maintaining your own little domain when the platforms offered everything for free — an audience already as…
The most successful product of the last five years was not a model, a chip or a foldable phone. It was a rectangle, taller than it was wide, set to autoplay. Vertical short video…
For almost three decades, the global internet was an unusual technological artefact. Most large pieces of human infrastructure had borders, jurisdictions and tariffs. The web most…
