At its core, this blog is about knowing things and sharing what you know. It’s about making things that are useful and entertaining, which means, by proxy, it is about your mind. It is a celebration of what your mind is capable of doing and building. Some would say it’s about being “smart.”
So far here at The Puttering Dev, we have covered Chaos Theory, Gauge Theory, and Category Theory. But there is one area of mathematics we have not yet discussed: multiplication.
Do you know what a topos is? It’s unlikely you have ever heard the word used in everyday conversation, but if you definitely want to know, you've found your way to the right place.
If you’ve been following the news lately, you’ve probably noticed an uptick in age verification laws for accessing online content. In theory, these laws are designed to keep minors from accessing sensitive material or at least, whatever lawmakers arbitrarily deem sensitive.
If you’ve heard of String Theory outside of a physics classroom, it was probably mentioned with a sarcastic eye-roll or remembered vaguely as a fad that scientists were excited about before it faded into obscurity.
Stop me if you have heard this one before: A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, and subsequently, a storm ravages half of Europe. In popular culture, this is known as the butterfly effect
Thus, to prevent the spread of misinformation, we don't just need more predators; we need a population of digital detritivores. Enter our anti misinformation AI agent, the Slopster.
If you’ve found your way to this post, there is a good chance you are familiar with computer programming and an even better chance that you have strong opinions on how code should be written. These opinions usually sharpen the moment you are forced to read someone else's work.
Google Cloud NEXT has wrapped and this year it was all about agentic AI and the move towards an autonomous cloud.
In a place you can’t quite remember, beyond an old forest in a town by the sea, there is an old shop (a place you might have seen in your dreams). Peer through this shops window and what will you see? In this case, someone building their own ghost