Technology from a Science Perspective

The dawn of protected mode, 32-bit computing, and the x86 architecture that still powers today's PCs

Superscalar architecture, MMX, and the megahertz wars that defined the 90s

How we went from single-core to dozens of cores, and why clock speeds stopped climbing

RISC principles, mobile dominance, and Apple Silicon's desktop breakthrough

From graphics rendering to CUDA, how GPUs became essential for AI and scientific computing

Tensor Processing Units, neural network chips, and specialized AI hardware

The platform that democratized embedded development, from Uno to Mega

WiFi-enabled microcontrollers that power the IoT revolution at $3 per chip

RP2040 and the entry of Raspberry Pi into the microcontroller market

C, C++, Rust, and MicroPython for bare-metal and RTOS development

14.4k, 28.8k, 33.6k, and 56k modems - the sounds and speeds that defined early internet

Always-on broadband that transformed how we used the internet in the 2000s

GPON, XGS-PON, and the physics of light-speed internet delivery

GSM, CDMA, LTE, and 5G - four generations of mobile connectivity

802.11b to WiFi 7 - how wireless LAN speeds went from 11Mbps to 46Gbps

Classic Bluetooth, Low Energy, and the protocol powering billions of devices

Low-power mesh networks for smart home automation and industrial IoT

Long-range, low-power wide-area networking for IoT at kilometer scales

Dijkstra's, A*, BFS, DFS, and modern graph neural network approaches

Memoization, tabulation, and solving optimization problems

Gang of Four patterns, SOLID principles, and modern architectural patterns

The next generation of web protocols built on UDP for faster, more reliable connections

How domain resolution works and securing it against attacks

Modern encryption for secure communication, cipher suites, and handshakes

Never trust, always verify - implementing modern security models

The most critical web application security risks and how to mitigate them

Securing dependencies, SBOMs, and software provenance

Custom elements, shadow DOM, and building framework-agnostic components

Responsive design based on container size, not viewport

Running native code in the browser at near-native speed

Container orchestration, operators, and cloud-native patterns

Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, and GitOps workflows

Metrics, logs, traces, and building observable systems with OpenTelemetry