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The Cycles of Collapse: Elite Overproduction Through History

The Cycles of Collapse: How Elite Overproduction Drives Societies Toward Crisis

Darren Hicks

From Imperial China's Taiping Rebellion to America's 2020s crisis, Peter Turchin's research reveals a chilling pattern: when societies produce too many elites competing for limited power, collapse follows. An interactive journey through five historical cases that all follow the same deadly playbook.

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Bitcoin Pricing Models

The Most Popular Bitcoin Pricing Models

Darren Hicks

A tour of six widely cited frameworks for estimating Bitcoin's value, complete with interactive charts.

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A Century of U.S. Bailouts Analysis

A Century of U.S. Bailouts: 1913 → 2025 Patterns, Turning-Points, and the Future of 'Too Big to Fail'

Darren Hicks

From WW-I war-finance to pandemic-era money-printing, this article traces every major U.S. bailout, asks what might have happened had rescue been withheld, and weighs whether ever-larger interventions are here to stay.

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The unfortunate Intel i7-13700K that was cooked

My Intel i7-13700K Died: An Undervolting Adventure

Darren Hicks

How a dead CPU led to the discovery of undervolting, resulting in lower temperatures and surprisingly better performance on an Intel i7-13700K.

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Bitcoin Core to Knots Migration

Bitcoin Core to Knots Migration: Protecting Bitcoin's Protocol Focus

Darren Hicks

How the Bitcoin community is migrating from Core to Knots implementation to preserve Bitcoin as a financial protocol rather than a general-purpose platform.

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Ruby on Rails - Modern Web Architecture

Ruby on Rails - Modern Web Architecture

Darren Hicks

Exploring the latest trends in web architecture and best practices for scalable applications.

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AI Software Development Illustration

How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Software Development

Darren Hicks

Exploring how AI is revolutionizing the software development landscape, from code generation to testing and deployment.

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JSON Schema - It's About Time

JSON Schema - It's About Time

Darren Hicks

Turns out having provably valid data might be important. JSON Schema - took you long enough.

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Git Branching Strategies

Git Branching Strategies

Darren Hicks

Release early, release often. But how do you manage your branches?

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Ruby on Rails Application Server Showdown

Ruby on Rails Application Server Showdown

Darren Hicks

Unicorn, Puma, Falcon, and Passenger. Which one is right for you?

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