A home network dashboard that ends the SSH-and-guess routine
I used to guess whether my home network was healthy. SSH into the router, check the load, count the connected devices, check the ISP status, check the NAS. The guess work was…
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Three real apps, zero paid APIs. The 2026 free tier audit
I built three small apps in 2025 that use only free-tier APIs (HTTP endpoints that other services expose for programmatic access). One handles lead routing for a friend’s consulting business, one does…
Twelve free tools I open before any paid one
I have been a developer for fifteen years. I have used hundreds of tools. Some of them cost more than my first car. Some of them cost nothing and do the job…
Three containers that took my homelab from hobby to legit
I run a homelab with a Proxmox cluster (a setup where Proxmox, an open-source virtualization platform, lets one physical machine run many virtual machines and containers as if they were separate servers),…
Run a virtual conference using only open source tools
Run a virtual conference using only open source tools I have helped run three virtual conferences in the last eighteen months, all on a tight budget, and every one of them used…
Australia's Cyber Agency Releases Azul, an Open Source Malware Analysis Repository
Australia’s Cyber Agency Releases Azul, an Open Source Malware Analysis Platform I have been waiting for a government to do this for years. In February 2026, the Australian Cyber Security Centre (the…
React Is No Longer Meta's Project, It Now Has Its Own Foundation
React Is No Longer Meta’s Project, It Now Has Its Own Foundation React (the JavaScript library that runs most of the web, whether you have noticed or not) just left Meta. The…
FOSS Weekly #26.09: Linux Mint Shortcuts, OpenClaw Alternatives, Ladybird's Rust Move, Super Productivity and More
FOSS Weekly #26.09: Linux Mint Shortcuts, OpenClaw Alternatives, Ladybird’s Rust Move, Super Productivity and More Issue 26.09 of the FOSS Weekly digest landed at the end of February 2026, and it is…
Someone is Bringing Fedora Linux to Phones (And It’s Not Red Hat)
Someone is bringing Fedora Linux to phones, and it is not Red Hat A group of Fedora community contributors has been quietly working on a project to put Fedora Linux on smartphones,…
bytedance/deer-flow – An open-source SuperAgent harness that researches, codes, and creates. With the help of sandboxes, memories, tools, skills and subagents, it handles different levels of tasks that could take minutes to hours.
bytedance/deer-flow: a SuperAgent for deep research I have been testing deer-flow (an open source “SuperAgent” framework from ByteDance, designed to do multi-step research tasks that combine web search, document reading, and code…