Exploring the overlap between code and reason

A storm hit social media this week. FFmpeg maintainers, the developers behind one of the world’s most important open-source multimedia libraries, were accused of demanding monetary compensation and license acknowledgments from commercial platforms using their code. Among those…

In a world where headlines are often dominated by scandals, superficiality, and the spectacle of fame, it is easy to forget that brilliance still flourishes, often quietly, in places where few bother to look. Recently, two extraordinary young women…

Not long ago, Nvidia was just another tech company. Known primarily among gamers and graphics professionals, its iconic green logo symbolized performance, not prestige. Today, Nvidia is a titan, the third most valuable company in the world by market cap,…

A reflection on memory, decline, and the paradox of progress. Nostalgia is a curious thing. We long for moments that were never perfect, yet feel sacred in hindsight. The 1980s brought us synth-pop, VHS tapes, Saturday morning cartoons, and the…

Some artists bend genres. Others break them. Devin Townsend? He vaporizes them into cosmic dust, builds entire galaxies from the fragments, then invites you to take a tour, with a wink, a scream, and a wall of sound that’s…

There are books that entertain, and then there are books that whisper, or rather echo, from somewhere ancient, somewhere weathered, like a forgotten cathedral buried beneath the bones of dead gods. Eleventh Cycle, the first installment in Kian…