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GitHub Universe 2026 is the Only Conference Where Agents Meet Actual Code Every week there is another AI announcement promising to change how you write code. Most of those announcements fade into…
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microsoft/markitdown: the Python tool that converts files to Markdown I have been using markitdown (a small Python utility from Microsoft that converts a wide range of file formats including PDFs, Word documents,…
ruvnet/ruflo: the leading agent orchestration platform right now I have been using ruflo (an open source platform for orchestrating multiple AI agents, letting them collaborate, share state, and coordinate on tasks that…
DB48X’s open source calculator firmware forbids AI contributions The maintainer of the DB48X open source calculator firmware (a community project that recreates and extends the firmware that runs on HP’s RPN calculators,…
ruvnet/wifi-densepose: turning WiFi signals into a motion capture system I have been following ruvnet‘s work for a few years. He publishes a lot of code, most of it under the MIT license,…
Bootc and OSTree: how Linux system deployment is finally getting modernized I have been running Fedora Silverblue (a variant of Fedora that uses an immutable (read-only) operating system image, updated as a…
Why GitHub Finally Fixed the Secret Scanning Noise Problem Secret scanning sounds simple on paper. You push code, GitHub checks for leaked API keys and passwords, and you get an alert when…
moeru-ai/airi: a self-hosted, you-owned GPT-style companion I have been running a local AI assistant on a small home server for about six months. The assistant I am using is airi, a project…
How to connect OpenClaw to WhatsApp, Telegram, and Slack I have been running an OpenClaw agent on a small VPS (a virtual private server, a remote Linux machine you rent by the…
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