Understanding Celery Prefork Workers and RabbitMQ

Celery and RabbitMQ are often treated as a black box pairing. Tasks go in, work comes out, and most of the time that is enough. When things stop behaving as expected, however, developers are forced to reason about internal mechanics that are rarely explained in one place. Concepts like prefork workers, acknowledgments, prefetching, and RabbitMQ’s … Read more

Trust Games: Secure Usage of Proxy Contracts

One of blockchain’s core value propositions is immutability. From the early days of Bitcoin a major appeal of the technology was that once a transaction was on the blockchain, it was there forever – verifiable, transparent, and permanent. With the advent of Ethereum this immutability expanded from simple immutable transactions on a ledger to complex … Read more

Overloading the Node: The Hidden Engineering Behind Scalable Blockchain Workflows

Modern blockchain applications often involve complex workflows for creating and managing digital assets on-chain. These assets can represent anything from tokenized financial instruments to digital collectibles. Beyond the complexities of writing the smart contract code itself, creating a real world digital asset typically involves multiple sequential steps, such as creating on-chain accounts, deploying smart contracts, … Read more

Artificial Intelligence Is Making Us All Dumber…Or Is It?

Is artificial intelligence making us dumber?

With “AI summaries” sitting at the top of the first page of traditional search engine results, a plethora of AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini available for general use, and even powerful agentic browsers with AI built right in, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the way we think and work is shifting. But what does that mean for the future of human intelligence?