Twelve Linux notebooks, three that earned a permanent install
I have spent the last month keeping a fresh Linux install on a secondary laptop and trying every data science notebook I could get running on it. Not a click through the…
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Siemens spent ten years before publishing their design system
I have spent most of my career inside small companies, so the Siemens Element story catches my attention every time. A 1000 product enterprise codebase did not become a public open source…
frp reaches the home server you can’t port forward to
frp is a fast reverse proxy written in Go that builds a tunnel between a machine behind NAT and a public server you already control. The tunnel is outbound, which is the…
A Claude Code workflow that survives a real Python project
Claude Code is a paid Anthropic command-line tool that reads your project, proposes code edits as diffs, and runs commands after you approve each one. It is more like a junior pair…
Sovereign documents in 2026 mean more than picking a different vendor
Most conversations about “digital sovereignty” treat it as a procurement decision. Pick a different vendor, sign a new contract, declare the dependency over. The architecture underneath the choice does not get the…
A 27B model just matched GPT-5.6 on a hard LLM benchmark
A 27 billion parameter open-weight model scoring 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index would have been a curiosity twelve months ago. In August 2026, the Qwen 3.8 27B release lands in…
Modular’s Mojo programming language ships open source at 1.0
Three years after promising an open source release, Modular finally shipped one. The Mojo compiler and toolchain are now Apache 2 licensed, and the 1.0 release is the version they are attaching…
What a SKILL.md actually does for a Claude DevOps session
The case for using Claude for DevOps work is not “AI writes my code now.” The case is that the slow parts of the job, the parts where you lose an hour…
Your Search Console clicks are missing because AI searched instead
A page on my own site picked up 7,480 impressions across a ninety day window, sat at an average position of 8.5 on Google’s first page, and earned seven clicks. Click-through rate…
A four tier open source AI observability stack you can ship today
Most enterprises that ship AI features are running something they cannot fully see. A retrieval pipeline answers confidently while pulling the wrong context. An agentic workflow burns ninety seconds of compute before…