Steve Hanov's Blog

If you spent any time on tech LinkedIn in the spring of 2026, you probably saw them.

I was talking to Mike Bird, who podcasts about AI tools.

At first, you're excited.

Waterloo birthed BlackBerry, Faire, and Tailscale.

Last night, I was rejected from yet another pitch night.

I was working on a project the other night, using Google's Gemini to help brainstorm a technical plan.

I recently had a problem that could be solved with money, which is the worst kind of problem.

My X (formerly Twitter) account is 17 years old.

I'll admit it.

I'll take you step by step into how to make a service that takes screenshots of webpages and returns them as an image.

New, 2024!

I found Security Vulnerability in your web application.

If you are writing an application in Javascript, soon you will have to worry about memory leaks.

I have never been a gamer.

ABSTRACT The difference between two sequences A and B can be compactly stored using COPY/INSERT operations.

So I have two million song lyrics in a big file.

Drag a font file here to reveal its innermost secrets!

How do you measure the "sortedness" of a list?

I hate all the languages.