Hi, I’m Cary Huang — a tech enthusiast based in Canada. I’ve spent years working with complex production systems and open-source software. Through TechBuddies.io, my team and I share practical engineering insights, curate relevant tech news, and recommend useful tools and products to help developers learn and work more effectively.
Large language models (LLMs) are getting better at complex, multi-step reasoning — but the infrastructure cost of letting them “think” deeply is becoming a central constraint. Nvidia’s new Dynamic Memory Sparsification (DMS) technique targets one of the core bottlenecks: the… Read More »How Nvidia’s Dynamic Memory Sparsification Lets LLMs ‘Think’ Longer at a Fraction of the Cost
Uniswap’s latest institutional integration gives DeFi a direct line into one of BlackRock’s flagship tokenized funds – but only for a tightly controlled group of market participants. For everyone else, it’s a preview of what a permissioned DeFi future might… Read More »UniswapX Opens a Narrow Door for BlackRock’s BUIDL Fund in DeFi
Introduction: Why Java JSON vs Avro vs Protobuf Performance Matters When I design high-throughput Java services, one of the first decisions I lock in is the data serialization format. The choice between JSON, Avro, and Protobuf quietly shapes everything from… Read More »Top 5 Strategies to Optimize Java JSON vs Avro vs Protobuf Performance
Bitcoin is trading in one of the strangest macro backdrops in its history: global uncertainty is at all-time highs, yet traditional measures of market stress remain subdued. For crypto investors and macro-focused traders, that disconnect is central to understanding whether… Read More »Bitcoin vs. Global Uncertainty: What Record-High Risk Sentiment Means for the Crypto Market
6 power-backup picks that keep your Wi‑Fi, work, and lights going during short outages When the power blinks out for a few minutes, it’s rarely the darkness that bothers me—it’s the dropped Wi‑Fi, the unsaved work, and the “everything rebooting”… Read More »6 power-backup picks that keep your Wi‑Fi, work, and lights going during short outages
Anthropic’s Claude Cowork, the company’s desktop AI agent, is now available on Windows — a move that instantly brings it to roughly 70% of the desktop market and pushes both Microsoft and the wider software industry to reassess how far… Read More »Anthropic’s Claude Cowork Comes to Windows, Forcing Microsoft and the Software Industry to Rethink AI Strategy
Chinese AI startup Zhupai, also known as z.ai, has released GLM-5, its latest frontier large language model and the newest entry in its GLM series. The model combines open-source licensing, strong benchmark performance and an explicit focus on autonomous, document-centric… Read More »Inside GLM-5: z.ai’s Open Source Frontier Model With Record-Low Hallucinations and Agentic Focus
Sam Bankman-Fried is asking for a new criminal trial, arguing that FTX was not a black-hole of missing money but a solvent business caught in a liquidity crunch. His latest motion hinges on a striking claim: that as of FTX’s… Read More »Sam Bankman-Fried’s Bid for a New Trial: Why a Claimed FTX ‘Surplus’ May Not Change the Verdict
Introduction: Why NumPy Broadcasting Performance Matters Broadcasting is one of the reasons NumPy feels so expressive: it lets me write vectorized operations between arrays of different shapes without manual looping. For example, adding a 1D array of coefficients to every… Read More »How to Optimize NumPy Broadcasting Performance with Cache-Aware Arrays
The European Commission’s 20th sanctions package marks a decisive shift in how Brussels is trying to police Russia’s use of digital assets. Rather than just targeting specific exchanges, wallets, or tokens, the proposal aims to ban all cryptocurrency transactions involving… Read More »EU’s Blanket Crypto Ban on Russia: Can One Chokepoint Really Stop the Flows?
6 home humidity fixes that make dry rooms easier to sleep in, work in, and live with When the air in my house gets dry, I feel it fast: scratchy throat at night, dry hands at my desk, and that… Read More »6 home humidity fixes that make dry rooms easier to sleep in, work in, and live with
As AI teams move from experimental chatbots to production-grade, tool-using agents that run for weeks or months, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is starting to show its limits. Latency, retrieval complexity, and unstable prompts are colliding with real-world requirements like predictable costs… Read More »How Mastra’s Observational Memory Beats RAG for Long‑Running AI Agents