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Machiavelli's Notes: The Realism Credo for Builders
What the works of Niccolò Machiavelli contribute to a builder's philosophy — the realism credo: see the world as it is, not as it should be, and keep power only to do the work.
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Educational materials, tutorials, and lecture notes on statistics, machine learning, and AI, plus conference talks and presentations. This includes fundamentals of AR, MR, and VR development (Machine Learning for data science, VR Fundamentals & WebXR Development, 3D Interaction Design, Performance Optimization), as well as research-based teaching on GenAI applications in Virtual Reality, eye tracking and bio sensors in immersive systems, and digital sovereignty and privacy-preserving technologies.
What the works of Niccolò Machiavelli contribute to a builder's philosophy — the realism credo: see the world as it is, not as it should be, and keep power only to do the work.
The minimal stoic unix — a working philosophy that pairs Stoic virtue with Unix design to build calm, simple, and sovereign relationships with technology.
The EU Cyber Resilience Act makes cybersecurity mandatory for almost every product with digital elements sold in Europe — from IoT devices to software. Timeline, scope, conformity assessment, reporting duties, penalties, and what it means for developers, startups and open-source projects.
For thirty years testing was the tax you paid for shipping. Now LLMs write the tests and agents argue about whether they are any good. A survey of the 2025–2026 research — test generation, mutation score over coverage, the oracle problem, and why over-reliance on test agents is the real risk.
Most teams ship logs, traces and user behaviour to a US-hosted SaaS and call it observability. The bill arrives as data-residency risk, renewal lock-in and a dashboard you cannot audit. Here is the self-hosted alternative — Prometheus, Loki, Grafana and Alloy behind your own network boundary.
Traditional service meshes like Istio or Linkerd are too slow for multi-hop requests. A recent study shows how eBPF enables real-time, kernel-level access control — with 10x less latency.