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Recently this video from Dave’s Garage on Youtube popped up in my feed. He makes a valid point about your current super awesome killer PC being slower than the 10year old one it just replaced. Not because new hardware sucks, on the contrary new hardware is leaps and bounds faster and in some cases even lighter on the watts, so that you can have some semblance of a hope your Windows laptop can compete with the battery life of the Hipster’s Mac on the other side of the coffee shop. Rather that the software that runs on it requires more and more from the hardware, and maybe even to the point where the software devs just become lazy and say, I’m not optimizing this routine, someone can just throw hardware at it if they don’t like how slow it is. ...

In February 2025, I wrote that Quantum Computing was a “game-changer… eventually.” A year of R&D has passed, and that eventually is looking a lot like soon. In 2026, we aren’t just talking about qubits; we’re talking about Lattice-based Cryptography appearing in our browser consoles and OpenSSL warnings. Where is last year’s bleeding edge? Last year I talked about potential breakthroughs in room-temperature superconductors, mechanical qubits and Google’s Willow chip. ...

The rapid advancements in quantum computing research have positioned it as both a force for innovation and a looming threat to the financial sector. While some celebrate groundbreaking discoveries, others amplify concerns over the risks quantum computing may pose to financial institutions. The United Nations has declared 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology , and experts speculate about the so-called ‘Q-Day’ —the moment when quantum computers will be capable of breaking the cryptographic systems that secure digital communications and transactions. ...

An adage goes: “The more things change, the more they stay the same” — that kind of holds true for Software Development. Back in the day, we used to design our systems, write the code, compile it, run it, get it tested and then deploy it. We still do all of that today, regardless of what we are building, be it microservices, large scale monolith systems, mobile apps, websites or firmware for IOT things. ...