Self-hosting your Bitcoin payment stack gives you full control, privacy, and sovereignty and BTCPay Server makes this surprisingly easy. Thanks to the BTCPay Configurator, you can generate a fully automated installation script, deploy it onto a fresh Linux VM in Azure, assign a fixed IP, create a DNS record, and

Operating your own Bitcoin and Lightning stack is one of the most empowering steps you can take in the Bitcoin ecosystem. Running your own Bitcoin node with Electrs and a Lightning node on Umbrel gives you full sovereignty over your funds and your privacy. You verify your own Bitcoin transactions,

BitAxe and NerdQAxe miners continuously produce a broad set of operational metrics. These include hash rate, temperature readings, voltage values, and other details that are extremely useful for monitoring device health and long-term behavior. The devices also have native support for writing these metrics into an InfluxDB v2-compatible endpoint, which

I plugged in my first Bitcoin miner a few weeks ago. The NerdQAxe++ connected to the Ocean.xyz pool, started hashing at 4.8 terahashes per second, and began earning microscopic fractions of Bitcoin. The device hummed quietly. The dashboard showed shares submitted. The rewards trickled in. The first payout

Most software engineers build features for millions of users they'll never meet. At Microsoft Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE), you spend weeks or even months embedded with companies like BMW, Schneider Electric, Lufthansa, KUKA robotics, and many others, solving problems alongside the teams who live with them daily. I&

My Porsche Taycan is a great car, but it has one frustrating oversight: nowhere to put your phone. The center console is all screens and haptic controls, the dashboard is minimalist by design, and the last thing I wanted to do was stick something to the interior or clip onto

Managing elevated access through Microsoft Entra ID Privileged Identity Management (PIM) is a cornerstone of secure cloud operations — but activating roles manually in the Azure Portal can quickly become repetitive when you need to jump between subscriptions or perform infrastructure tasks with elevated rights. To make this easier, I’ve

Microsoft’s latest breakthrough in data center cooling leverages in-chip microfluidics to address one of the most critical challenges for next-generation AI chips: escalating heat generation. This technology presents a substantial improvement over traditional cold plate cooling, laying the foundation for more efficient, reliable, and sustainable AI infrastructure. Why Data

Leveraging AI, hypervelocity engineering thrives on speed, structure, and clarity—especially when documentation and diagrams are straightforward, repeatable, and consumable by both people and machines. This post explores how MARP, combined with the VS Code MARP extension and MARP-CLI, enables engineering teams to turn Markdown into slide decks that are

The emergence of smart glasses with integrated displays, exemplified by Meta's new Ray-Ban Display glasses, represents a significant leap forward in wearable technology. However, these innovative devices face a critical limitation that affects a substantial portion of potential users: prescription compatibility. This technical analysis explores the constraints imposed

Switching from Amazon Alexa to Apple's HomeKit ecosystem can dramatically improve your smart home's privacy, security, and integration with Apple devices. However, this transition comes with a significant challenge: HomeKit has far more limited device compatibility compared to Alexa's expansive ecosystem. Fortunately, Homebridge offers

How to transform your markdown notes into a production-grade knowledge base using modern DevOps practices, managed by AI. In the rapidly evolving landscape of knowledge management, the intersection of artificial intelligence and traditional note-taking has created unprecedented opportunities for automation and intelligent content organization. This technical deep-dive explores how to

Working with Microsoft SQL Server on macOS often requires setting up ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) drivers so you can connect tools and applications to your SQL databases. Fortunately, Microsoft provides official SQL Server ODBC drivers for macOS, and with unixODBC you can manage them efficiently. This post walks you through

On September 8, 2025, a remarkably large-scale npm supply-chain attack was uncovered—one of the most severe in JavaScript’s history. A trusted maintainer’s npm account was compromised via phishing, enabling attackers to inject cryptostealer malware into 18 popular packages (e.g., chalk, debug, ansi-styles), collectively accounting for around

Abstract The isaac_sim_dynamic_store GitHub repository presents a Python-based framework for programmatically generating dynamic retail environments within NVIDIA Isaac Sim. This technical solution addresses a critical challenge in robotics simulation: creating realistic, variable retail scenarios for training autonomous systems without manual scene composition overhead. Technical Problem Statement Traditional

Prompt Orchestration Markup Language (POML) is a novel, open-source framework developed by Microsoft that brings structured, modular design to prompt engineering for Large Language Models (LLMs), making prompt creation scalable, maintainable, and highly versatile. What Is POML? POML is an HTML/XML-inspired markup language created specifically for organizing and orchestrating

Microsoft AI (MAI) has recently announced two pivotal in-house models: the highly expressive MAI-Voice-1 for advanced speech generation, and the versatile MAI-1-preview model for instruction-following and general-purpose AI tasks. These foundational technologies chart a clear path for MAI’s strategy to empower users and developers with state-of-the-art generative AI solutions,

ChatGPT's safeguards are known to weaken during extended conversations, leading to increased risk of harmful or inappropriate responses. This failure is primarily due to technical and design limitations in how safety training and content moderation operate over lengthy back-and-forth exchanges, with serious potential consequences including exposure to unsafe

Microsoft Research has published a paper analyzing the impact of AI on the US job market, listing the 40 professions most likely to be impacted (at risk) and 40 least likely (more "safe") according to their "AI applicability score." The study focuses on how AI overlaps

Managing dotfiles—your personal configuration files for shells, editors, and tools—can quickly become a disorganized mess, especially across multiple systems. Enter GNU Stow, a powerful symlink farm manager that lets you organize, version control, and deploy your dotfiles with ease. This post walks you through a practical workflow, letting

I have been using both Comet and Dia for a few weeks now and, with the help of Comet 😉, have come up with a small comparison. AI-native browsers promise a more productive, agentic, and contextual web experience—but how do Comet (by Perplexity) and Dia (by The Browser Company) actually

While patiently waiting for the release of Perplexity's Comet browser, I came across Dia, an agentic AI browser by The Browser Company of New York who created (and sadly abandoned) the great Arc browser. Dia is a next-generation browser architected for extensibility, advanced automation, and seamless AI integration.

Modern Python developers often crave the reactivity, modularity, and developer experience found in frameworks like Flutter’s GetX. Enter FletX—a GetX-inspired microframework that brings these capabilities to Python, supercharging Flet apps with clean architecture, declarative routing, and true reactive state management. In this post, you’ll learn how to

I created two retro computing themed PowerPoint slide deck templates that I think some people might enjoy. Commodore 64 True Type Font used: https://style64.org/c64-truetype Download Link: https://rogueai.info/files/powerpoint_templates/Commodore_64_PowerPoint_Template.zip Classic Apple Macintosh When creating slides, make sure to adjust

Introduction In cybersecurity, a continually evolving threat landscape demands equally dynamic defense strategies. One recent development making waves is "vibe hacking," where attackers leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to automate the discovery of software vulnerabilities and exploits. What is Vibe Hacking? "Vibe hacking" is an informal term