Future Tech & AI

Hey chooms!

I play way too much Cyberpunk and work in software, so I decided to build a real-world piece of ICE (Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics) inspired directly by the Blackwall.

In reality, servers get scanned constantly by rogue botnets and hackers. Normally, a standard firewall just drops their connection. But my Blackwall acts as active, hostile ICE.

It intercepts the connection at the lowest system level. If it detects malicious behavior, it doesn't just block them - it throws them into an AI-generated construct.

The attacker thinks they've successfully hacked the server, but they are actually sitting in a fake terminal controlled by a local AI. The AI hallucinates fake files, passwords, and directories on the fly, streaming the responses back incredibly slowly to trap the hacker and waste their time while silently logging everything they do.

It's been running on my servers and catching actual botnets. I open-sourced the whole project for any actual netrunners out there who want to look at the code (I'll drop the GitHub link in the comments if anyone is interested)

Was bored and went down a rabbit hole trying to figure out when iPhones stopped being boring black/white slabs and started coming in actual colors. Ended up mapping every single color option across all 52 models

Some things that surprised me:

- 2007–2012 was literally just silver, black, white. That's it. For 5 years.
- 2013 the 5C dropped and suddenly there were 8 colors in one year
- Then it went back to boring for a few years
- 2018 onwards is where it explodes, the XR had 6 colors alone
- 2025 has the most ever with 14 unique colors across all models
- Cosmic Orange on the 17 Pro is the wildest color Apple's ever done imo

Also built a full interactive version with every spec, price, camera, and a compare tool if anyone wants to dig deeper.

full interactive version