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usbtree(opens in new tab)
A live USB device tree TUI with Linux activity metrics.
Dell is on a roll with the XPS(opens in new tab)
ISO 9001 and AS9100: What They Actually Buy You(opens in new tab)
If you've spent any time around a machine shop or a manufacturing floor, you've probably heard someone grumble that a quality certification is just a binder full of paperwork nobody reads until an auditor shows up. That reputation isn't entirely ...
I made a Plex server(opens in new tab)
There’s a lot to like about Plex from a philosophical standpoint — it’s local-first software centered around sharing your favorite art with your friends. Plex hosts movies, TV, and music — media you purchase because you love it, and share ...
Building a Custom Metrics Exporter for Kubernetes(opens in new tab)
Kubernetes ships with built-in awareness of CPU and memory, but most real-world scaling decisions depend on signals that live entirely outside that narrow window: how many messages are waiting in a queue, how long the last batch job took, how ...
#488: tau - it's 2pi and it writes code(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: The trusted-publishing debate: how to do it right vs. why you shouldn't trust it JupyterLab 4.6 and Notebook 7.6 are out! Tau – new small, readable terminal coding agent Django Tasks and Django 6.1 Extras ...
The discourse about software craftsmanship conveniently ignores distribution(opens in new tab)
I've always considered myself a software craftsman. I love clean APIs, efficient code and great user experience. If our entire world is about to be rewritten in Rust governed by
Logo: Squawkbox(opens in new tab)
Operating AI/ML Workloads on Kubernetes: A Headlamp Plugin for Kubeflow(opens in new tab)
Kubernetes has quietly become the default platform for AI and machine learning. Whether you run notebook servers for data scientists, schedule distributed training jobs, tune hyperparameters, or orchestrate multi-step ML pipelines, those workloads increasingly land on a Kubernetes cluster. Kubeflow ...
Kubernetes Dashboard to Headlamp: A Step-by-Step Guide(opens in new tab)
1. Before you start: know what is changingKubernetes Dashboard and Headlamp both show what is running in a cluster, but they work differently. When Headlamp runs on the desktop, it uses your existing kubeconfig to connect to one or more ...
Marimo Pair - A Canvas for Agent + Developers Collaboration(opens in new tab)
Coding agents have gotten really good at one kind of work. You scope a feature, edit some files, run the tests, ship it. It all happens on disk. But that is not how data work feels. You load something, you ...
Laughing Through The Pain with David Crawshaw(opens in new tab)
Some of you might know David as a co-founder of Tailscale. In this episode we're talking about a new kind of cloud he's building at exe.dev. The SSH-only interface is a breath of fresh air compared to the monstrocity that ...
Even if 90% of AI-discovered vulnerabilities are made up, it's still terrifying(opens in new tab)
Developers working on popular projets are inundated with hallucinated vulnerability reports, leading people to downplay the risks associated with AI-assisted vulnerability hunting. But hear me out: it should wake you
On Atproto and Atmospheric Groups(opens in new tab)
I'm starting A Fresh Blog(tm), this time on Pckt. I wanted a dedicated space to post about development, atproto, and community thoughts, and a new space felt like the right place for it. Plus I wanted to get in on ...
Self-Host Weekly (10 July 2026) (opens in new tab)
Everybody's mad, nobody's leaving
Momentum is why the spice continues to flow(opens in new tab)
People are sometime wondering how I can be so "productive" with my blog (granted that publishing brainfarts can be called "produtivity"). Come here, I will tell you my secret. I
Trustworthy AI in Healthcare and Longevity(opens in new tab)
You ask an AI a question and it answers with total confidence. Most of the time, a confidently wrong answer is just an annoyance. But what if the question is medical, and there's a real patient on the other end? ...
smallvec is probably one of the most underrated Rust crates(opens in new tab)
Hear me out: While Rust, the language, gives you all you need to build libraries and programs that can scale from microcontrollers to big servers and everything in between, in
Announcing etcd v3.7.0(opens in new tab)
This article is a mirror of the original announcement Today, SIG etcd is releasing etcd v3.7.0, the latest minor release of the popular distributed key-value store and core Kubernetes component. v3.7 ships the long-requested RangeStream feature, delivers several other performance ...
How to Use AI Coding Tools Well(opens in new tab)
How to use AI for coding well? Practical tips for using AI coding tools, including context management, AGENTS.md files, planning, reviews, tests, and MCPs.
Setting up Sveltia CMS for an Astro Markdown Blog(opens in new tab)
How I added Sveltia CMS to my Astro markdown blog. Setup, image optimization, mobile editing fixes, and solving frontmatter issues.
Investigating why RustCrypto is slow: Deep dive into SIMD instructions and hardware acceleration(opens in new tab)
Now that I have your attention, let's be clear, RustCrypto packages are not "slow", they are most probably "fast enough" for your use case. Yet, I couldn't unsee how faster
2026.H1 Review(opens in new tab)
TL;DR - In 2026.H1, I started feeling like a real dad, took parental leave, went to a programming retreat, shipped CloudSeed Rust + QuietCut, reached 130k views, got back to building for fun, and star...
dnsglobe(opens in new tab)
A global DNS propagation checker for your terminal.
How to publish to PyPI using GitHub Actions securely(opens in new tab)
There have been several security incidents lately that involved compromising GitHub Actions workflows. This has led some to say "GitHub Actions is the weakest link" in publishing and to GitHub publishing a GitHub Actions security roadmap update. But saying it's ...
#487: Minimum requirements(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: dust - a better du Hermes Agent: The AI agent that grows with you llm-coding-agent 0.1a0 Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/487
Introducing kiac: Real Kubernetes Nodes on Your Mac, Each Its Own Lightweight VM(opens in new tab)
kiac runs local Kubernetes on macOS where every node is its own lightweight VM via apple/container: kubeadm or k3s flavors, Cilium on a custom kernel, built-in LoadBalancer, Grafana, Gateway API, and clusters that survive reboots.
S3 is a better abstraction than NFS / networked block storage(opens in new tab)
While I agree that S3 is far from perfect and I would love to see a newer S4, the Super Simple Storage Service, from what we've learned in the past
Customizing my Xteink firmware and wallpaper(opens in new tab)
I got the Xteink X4 device, and it's really fun to hack around with!
What America has meant to me(opens in new tab)
Every time I have given up on America, it has been a mistake. And yet, America has never, ever given up on me.
Travel notes: PLDI Boulder(opens in new tab)
I had another excellent PLDI this past June. It was my fourth1. I continued to meet new people and learn new things! Overall: I got to meet a lot of new people, which was exciting. I had some good chats ...
Time-based background colour transitions with Temporal and CSS color-mix(opens in new tab)
Self-Host Weekly (3 July 2026) (opens in new tab)
Me, my.self, and I
Ubuntu 26.04, KVM, netplan, and NetworkManager(opens in new tab)
Ubuntu has been getting less usable year by year ever since moving to systemd init. This year, the new papercut is that NetworkManager will violently conflict with–and override–anything you set in /etc/netplan, unless you manually tell it to bugger off. ...
Goodbye, forever, probably.(opens in new tab)
Why I’m leaving developer relations, and why I’m not telling you what’s next.
Race cars to nuclear grade dish soap: A spectrum of quality strategy(opens in new tab)
It’s been a long and incredibly nonlinear journey to get where I am today. I’ll start by saying that I never intended to get into quality engineering. I sought an engineering degree so I could help design the next Camaro ...
Terminal Trove June 2026 Wrap Up (opens in new tab)
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in June 2026.
High-performance Rust: Understanding and eliminating heap fragmentation(opens in new tab)
I'm currently working on a TLS (Transport Layer Security) implementation for stdx (Rust's extended standard library), and one of the main requirements is to be able to use it on
Which AI coding tools to use(opens in new tab)
Which AI coding tools are best? What should you use? What I recommend for development work.
Operation Floodlight(opens in new tab)
I have been thinking about the downstream impacts of AI systems having strong cybersecurity capabilities.
The Bug Bounty Singularity: Our Hackbot(opens in new tab)
This past December, it became feasible for any skilled hacker to scale up a hacking agent, spending hundreds in token cost to find thousands in bounties. I call this the “Bug Bounty Singularity”. This is the story of JD (xssdoctor) ...
ghgrab(opens in new tab)
A TUI to download files/folders from repositories without cloning repos.
If I want more IRL, I must go AFK(opens in new tab)
Canonization and the Overhang(opens in new tab)
David Bessis’s “The fall of the theorem economy” is ostensibly about LLMs and the pursuit of pure math, and I found it fascinating in its own right, even while I’m not qualified to evaluate a number of his claims. Worth ...
LLM Costs and Observability with agentgateway on Kubernetes (Part 2)(opens in new tab)
Part 2: scrape agentgateway with Prometheus, build a Grafana dashboard of token cost and per-tool usage, see blocked tool calls, and alert on spend.
#486: underscore-underscore-ghost-emoji(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Free-threaded Python: past, present, and future django-admin-site-search Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development A large batch of PEPs are finalized Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on ...
Whitespace in Astro 7.0(opens in new tab)
The way whitespace is rendered is different in the latest version of Astro, and here's how you can fix it.
