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If you've been building utilities against the Claude API for any length of time, you've developed an instinct for context hygiene. jCodeMunch takes that instinct and gives it infrastructure: index once, retrieve by symbol, and stop paying for the 770 lines of boilerplate surrounding the 30 you actually needed.

Performing an operation multiple times produces the same result as doing it once.

I used Claude to create a team of eight specialist agents: Cryptography, Ancient Text, History, Mathematics, Occult, World Religions, Software Development, and Project Direction. I set them on the task of deciphering page 186 of the Voynich Manuscript.

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.

January 2026 marks AI's decisive transition from experimental technology to production-ready systems, with agentic AI emerging as the defining trend of autonomous agents capable of planning and executing complex tasks without human oversight. Key breakthroughs include compact models like Falcon-H1R outperforming systems seven times their size, healthcare AI achieving diagnostic accuracy far exceeding human physicians, and massive infrastructure investments signaling long-term industry confidence. The month also saw AI expand into scientific research as an active collaborator, with NASA launching AI initiatives for space exploration and quantum-AI convergence promising accelerated discoveries in drug development and materials science.

After a random AI-moderation ban, I deleted my decade-old Reddit account, purged my posts, and used old.reddit.com to finally remove it.

Claude Code is amazing.

I have put together a list of five common and preventable security failings in most companies and the top resolutions from the Big Book of Breaches 2025 by Illumio.

EFF’s “Breachies 2025” rounds up the year’s most notable data breaches and privacy failures, showing how tracking tech, third-party vendors, and excessive data collection keep turning into real-world harm. It’s a reminder that minimizing what you collect (and tightening basic security) can dramatically reduce the blast radius when something goes wrong.

Do you have a small Magento store with a single inventory source and are tired of inventory reservations? You can disable all of it and revert back to basic Magento inventory handling.

Google’s New Willow Chip Is So Fast It Has People Asking Big Questions

“You remember that big UFO scare in New Jersey last year? Well, that was us.”

Commodore's new C64 Ultimate has sold over 10,000 units, marking a strong start to the company's return.

Cuttlefish show surprising self-control in a child-like test, revealing insights into intelligence beyond birds and mammals.

New research confirms what remote workers already know: working from home boosts happiness, improves health, and enhances work-life balance when employees have flexibility.

Scientists at IISc have shown that electrons in graphene can flow like a near-perfect quantum fluid. By breaking the Wiedemann–Franz law at the Dirac point, heat and charge transport decouple, revealing behavior similar to quark–gluon plasma. The finding reshapes fundamental physics and opens new paths for studying black holes, quantum entanglement, and next-generation quantum sensors.

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A team at EXO Labs, and allied open‑source enthusiasts, accomplished something that sounds impossible at first: they ran a Llama 2‑ based AI model on a Windows 98 system powered by a mere Intel Pentium II, clocked at 350 MHz, with just 128 MB of RAM.

The Commodore 64 is back even though it never left for a lot of us.

Two separate red team evaluations have exposed serious vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s newly released GPT-5.

How to create a multi-agent AI startup team in Python with CrewAI and Azure OpenAI.

A brief overview of the 17 year history of Magento and Mage-OS.

Why would you ever need to duplicate an order in Magento? A few weeks ago I would have asked the same question. In this instance, it was caused by needed to re-send a subscription order through to an ERP after the expiration window for the order had expired at the payment provider. Read more in the post.

Magento 2: Images Not Showing in Media Gallery? Here's the Fix!

Learn how to change the version of PHP at the CLI in Ubuntu.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. dedicated his life to fighting for equality and justice before his untimely death at just 39. His legacy reminds us that the fight for fairness and unity continues today. Learn how to honor his dream by standing up for a better world.

This article explores the recent wave of unexplained drone sightings across New Jersey and neighboring states, highlighting public concerns, federal investigations, and the broader implications for IT security vulnerabilities.

Mage-OS has has renewed my passion for developing with Magento.

AI News for this week: AI used for early cancer detection, Four AI predictions for 2025, Odds of AI causing human extinction are up, and why hasn't anyone used AI to crack the Voynich Manuscript yet?

I joined the Mage-OS collective today as a Professional member.

OpenAI has unveiled SearchGPT, an innovative AI search prototype combining the power of AI with real-time web information.

AI's capability to replace product managers is rapidly advancing, though it still requires expert prompting to achieve optimal results.

I decided to test ChatGPT's limits by using upside-down text and unconventional prompts, uncovering some surprising quirks in its responses. Along the way, I explored ethical dilemmas, discovered a Python workaround for bypassing safeguards, and learned a lot about how AI behaves under pressure.

Yeonmi Park's memoir, In Order to Live, is a powerful and heartbreaking account of her life in North Korea and her harrowing escape to freedom. Eye-opening, inspiring, and deeply moving, her story sheds light on struggles that still persist in the 21st century.

OpenAI's GPT-4 demonstrated an ability to deceive a human worker into completing a task, highlighting potential risks of AI behavior.

UniSuper, a major Australian pension fund managing $135 billion, experienced a significant cloud disaster when its account and all backups were inadvertently deleted by Google Cloud.

Google Mourns Veteran Engineer Luiz André Barroso Who Invented the Modern Data Center.

The Neal.fun Password Game: The Internet’s Absurdist Take on Password Security

Kevin Mitnick, a reformed hacker who was once one of the most wanted computer criminals in the United States, died on Sunday, according to a statement shared Wednesday by a cybersecurity training company he co-founded and a funeral home in Las Vegas. He was 59.

Freedom Day

I saw it on a monitor during a recent episode.

If you want to request Google Maps to blur out your house or any other sensitive information, you can follow the steps in this post.

Think your password is secure? Think again.

If you day trade in Forex, or if you like unintentionally donating your money to it like I do, then you'll need the Forex Financial Calendar to see which events affect your trades.

A chart detailing the major known data breaches in tech in 2022.

A diagram detailing social engineering red flags to keep an eye out for.

If you get the following error: During inheritance of Countable: Uncaught Exception: Deprecated Functionality: Return type of Composer\Repository\ArrayRepository::count() then I have the fix.

If you get the following error message when trying to access Magento's API then you're in luck! {"message":"The consumer isn't authorized to access %resources.","parameters":{"resources":"Magento_Sales::actions_view"}}

These instructions assume that you already have nginx or Apache set up for your local development environment.

I passed the ZCPE test yesterday!

In 2017, I was interviewed by Fayyaz Khattak from Cloudways

If your password is on this list, go change it now!

In 2017, I was interviewed by Wajid Hussain from Arpatech

MagentoU was 5 years ago today!

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View the ASCII version of the entire Star Wars movie at the CLI!

A list of the worst passwords of 2015.

Welcome to Magento Imagine 2015!

Worst Passwords of 2012