Look, I’ve been that person. You are going on a trip, you already feel late, and you think to yourself, “Wait, I forgot I didn’t set my out-of-office.” Then you do a panicked Google search; they give you three distinct…
Well, I will tell you the truth: I spent all of last Tuesday lying at my computer at 2 AM, watching my program crash every fifth time with that terrible “address already in use” message. The culprit? Port 62893 on…
Here’s my honest take: I was completely puzzled when I first heard about SD-WAN. I didn’t think it was another tech buzzword schools didn’t actually need. Then I talked to some IT admins at local schools, and boy, was I…
Well, I did a two-month trial of three German providers because we needed GDPR-compliant hosting for an AI project. Here is what really transpired – no fluff, just real experience. Why I Even Bothered With German Servers My hosting company…
Honestly, I spent too many Sundays shopping around and comparing VPN routers because I got fed up with installing VPN apps on every device in my home. My smart television can’t run a VPN app, and leave me alone about…
The thing is, when you look for “Rum StockTwits,” you’ll find two very different groups preoccupied with NASDAQ-listed video sites and blockchain tokens for gaming sites with the same name: $RUM. The overlap is so great that it can be…
I know someone built an app, and now someone is telling him he needs to test it for security. You search Google for app penetration testing and find it costs between $5,000 and $35,000. That’s rent money. That’s payroll. That’s…
Coming out to look, I have been watching Google AI announcements for a long time now. Most years, it’s buzzwords and empty promises. But Google I/O 2025 felt different. What interests me is what they actually said they were going…
Most enterprises don’t choose to develop their own ERP system after reading a blog post about it. They make decisions because something went wrong, like a spreadsheet that scales poorly, or a software tool that fails to communicate with another…
The overwhelming majority of founders I have spoken with are either immensely confident in the direction things are moving, or utterly oblivious to the fact that the tools they use are within their own wheelhouse. The startup and SME world…
Whenever you’ve connected to a work server in a cafe, you have either used a VPN or taken a risk you probably never considered. Most companies set up a VPN, tick the compliance box, and move on. Nonetheless, the real…
Over the past couple of months, I’ve spoken with startup founders in Riyadh and Jeddah, and the common denominator is that they built an app, got downloads, but no one is using it. Sound familiar? The Saudi application market is…