Technology
Hardware, software, networking, and development
#418: RAID is Not a Backup: Mastering Home Server Resilience
Why RAID isn’t enough and how snapshots act as a digital time machine for your home server’s survival.
#412: Beyond the Mouse: Why Our Keyboards are Stuck in 1870
Why are we still using 19th-century keyboard layouts? Herman and Corn explore the fascinating world of trackballs, macropads, and BCIs.
#410: Redundancy Is Not a Backup
When a 7-year-old server dies, the recovery is a wake-up call. Discover why RAID isn't a backup and how to build a resilient "Server V2."
#409: When RAID Fails: The Rebuild Time Nightmare
Learn the math behind RAID levels, the risks of drive rebuilds, and why ZFS is the modern gold standard for data integrity.
#405: What Your Power Supply's Efficiency Rating Actually Means
Is your power supply killing your PC? Herman and Corn dive into the hidden world of PSUs, efficiency ratings, and server reliability.
#403: Wireless Fiber: The Hidden Tech Powering Our Cities
Discover why the internet travels faster through air than glass and how microwave technology is solving the urban connectivity crisis.
#402: Powering the Abyss: The Secret High-Voltage Undersea Web
Discover the incredible engineering behind subsea cables, from 18,000-volt circuits to using the Earth itself as a giant return wire.
#401: Why Your Home Will Stay Hybrid
Is Ethernet dying? Herman and Corn explore why copper still reigns supreme for power, while fiber optics conquer the network backbone.
#390: The Hidden Price of a Click
Herman and Corn dive into the hidden environmental and ethical price of ultra-cheap global shipping and the dilemma of the modern consumer.
#389: Minimizing the Blast Radius: Why Your Smart Home Needs Distributed Hardware
When a single home server fails, the whole house goes dark. Learn how to shrink your "blast radius" by moving to a distributed hardware grid.
#388: Navigating the Chinese New Year Industrial Blackout
Discover how the world's largest human migration brings global manufacturing to a standstill and how businesses survive the month-long blackout.
#386: Beyond Blue Light: The Real Science of Display Eye Strain
Is blue light the real enemy? Herman and Corn dive into the physics of eye strain, PWM flicker, and the dream of the e-ink desktop monitor.
#385: The Unkillable Workstation: Building for Total Redundancy
Can you build a PC that never dies? Herman and Corn explore redundant power, memory mirroring, and high-availability clusters for home servers.
#368: The Geometry of Secrets: How SSH Keys Protect the Web
Ever wonder why your SSH keys are so secure? Herman and Corn dive into the "trapdoor" math and elliptic curves powering the modern web.
#352: When Your Lens Defines Your Authority
Are bulky news cameras history? Herman and Corn explore how smartphones and AI are redefining professional journalism in 2026.
#349: The Hidden Gatekeepers of Digital Signatures
Think a digital signature is just a picture of your name? Think again. Herman and Corn dive into the math and hardware behind secure PDFs.
#347: Bridging the Workspace-GCP Divide
Discover how to use Google Cloud buckets and Vertex AI to turn a cluttered Drive into a scalable, AI-powered knowledge base.
#346: GPU Scaling: The "Go Wide or Go Tall" Dilemma
Should you use a fleet of cheap GPUs or one powerhouse? Learn the math behind serverless GPU costs, cold starts, and batching efficiency.
#341: The Operating System That Watches You
Explore the walled garden of North Korea’s intranet, from the Mac-inspired Red Star OS to hardware that screenshots your every move.
#340: Why Immutability Is the New Trust
In an era of AI and deepfakes, how do we prove data is real? Explore WORM technology: the digital equivalent of carving records in stone.