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Andrés Morales

Developer and AI researcher. Writes about language models, frameworks, developer tooling, and open source releases. Covers ML papers, the tech startup ecosystem, and programming trends.
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Programming

Chaos Engineering: How Netflix Breaks Its Own Production

Chaos engineering means injecting real failures into production systems to discover weaknesses before an incident occurs. This article explains its principles, shows examples with Chaos Mesh, and compares the most popular tools to get started today.

By Andrés Morales, 2 months29 August, 2026 ago
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Tech News

U.S. Sanctions Digital Privacy Collective Autistici/Inventati

Autistici/Inventati is an Italian collective that has offered free email, hosting, and other digital tools to activists since 2001, run entirely on a nonprofit basis. Its official website now displays a notice about U.S. sanctions, a development that tests two decades of self-managed infrastructure for digital activism.

By Andrés Morales, 2 months29 August, 2026 ago
htmx logo over a code background representing the htmx 4.0.0 release
Tech News

htmx 4.0.0 Is Here: fetch() Replaces XMLHttpRequest

htmx 4.0.0 arrived after eight months of development and migrates its internal engine from XMLHttpRequest to fetch(). The most disruptive change is explicit attribute inheritance, which now requires the :inherited suffix instead of being inherited by default.

By Andrés Morales, 2 months28 August, 2026 ago
Google Calendar Android missing option to add a calendar by URL
Tech News

Google Calendar for Android Doesn’t Support Adding Calendars by URL

The Google Calendar app for Android has no button to subscribe to a calendar by URL: the only way to do it is by using desktop mode in the browser. The case, documented on August 28, 2026, exposes a common pattern in today’s corporate apps.

By Andrés Morales, 2 months28 August, 2026 ago
Conceptual illustration of small AI models answering fast, cheap queries
Artificial Intelligence

GLM 5.3 and Small AI Models Cut the Cost per Query to $0.10

Small AI models like gpt-5.6-luna and GLM 5.3 cut the cost of a complex query from nearly a dollar to just ten cents, according to an essay by Calvin French-Owen. The former Segment co-founder explains why consumer AI apps are only now becoming viable, and what kind of business work these fast, cheap models can take on.

By Andrés Morales, 2 months28 August, 2026 ago
Illustration of small ai models processing tasks at low cost and high speed
Artificial Intelligence

gpt-5.6-luna: 100 Tokens Per Second for Pennies

gpt-5.6-luna solves complex research tasks for pennies and at around 100 tokens per second, as documented by Calvin French-Owen. That finding, combined with GLM 5.3 joining the cost-capability Pareto frontier, redefines which consumer ai apps are economically viable.

By Andrés Morales, 2 months27 August, 2026 ago
University of Chicago campus, symbol of the AI ban in classrooms
Artificial Intelligence

University of Chicago Bans AI in More College Courses

The University of Chicago expanded its ban on generative artificial intelligence to more courses, Forbes reported on August 24, 2026. The policy already applied to social science classes and reopens the debate over academic integrity in the age of chatbots.

By Andrés Morales, 2 months27 August, 2026 ago
Diagram of Apache Kafka showing partitions, brokers, and consumers
Programming

Kafka: The Distributed Log That Orders Events in Production

Apache Kafka is no longer just a message queue: today it’s the distributed log that synchronizes microservices at companies like Netflix and Uber. Here we explain its partitions, offsets, and consumer groups with real Node.js code.

By Andrés Morales, 2 months27 August, 2026 ago
18th-century Mechanical Turk automaton, the inspiration behind Amazon's platform name
Tech News

Amazon Shuts Down Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026

Amazon confirmed that Mechanical Turk, its crowdsourcing platform launched in 2005, will shut down on September 30, 2026. The company has not yet announced a direct replacement service within its AWS catalog.

By Andrés Morales, 2 months27 August, 2026 ago
Glacial lake in the Himalayas surrounded by moraine, an example of GLOF risk
Tech News

Himalayas: An Avalanche-Triggered GLOF Could Be 15 Times Larger Than the Worst on Record

A study in NHESS simulated worst-case scenarios for two Tibetan glacial lakes and a third one that doesn’t exist yet. The finding: a large avalanche could trigger a GLOF 15 times bigger than any on record, with only minutes of warning.

By Andrés Morales, 2 months26 August, 2026 ago

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