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I designed my own four-year bachelor — and I'm studying it in public — Sep 15, 2026 Thirty-six university courses, eight terms, one exam and one real artifact per course. Why a working software engineer built a degree out of free lectures, how the whole system runs, and how you can use it.
The sniper effect — what launchpads did to Robinhood's chain — Jul 18, 2026 Robinhood shipped a pristine Layer 2 for tokenized stocks. Within a week, a memecoin launchpad and a swarm of sniper bots owned it. Here's the technical reason that was never avoidable.