observability is the nervous system your stack already has
If you have ever paged someone at 2 a.m. because a checkout flow looked slow but every dashboard said “green,” you already know the cost of running infrastructure you cannot actually see.…
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heymaikol/network-doctor runs your whole network runbook in one pass
The difference between a network problem that takes five minutes to diagnose and one that takes an hour is usually whether you remember to check DNS, MTU, and the proxy in the…
a2-stuff/Indicium-Mail-TUI brings Rust mail reading to the terminal
Email is one of those tools that keeps getting heavier. Every few years the mainstream clients add another sidebar, another chat panel, another AI button sitting on top of the same IMAP…
Kernel cleanup in Mint and 16,000 desks off Microsoft Office
The FOSS Weekly #26.33 roundup from It’s FOSS collects a week of Linux news, and two items in it are worth more attention than a newsletter bullet gives them. Linux Mint is…
Terminal batch renamers that earn their place in your toolbox
If you have ever sat in front of a folder full of IMG_20260814_xxx.jpg files and typed a for loop in bash to rename them, you have already written the kind of code…
AI observability has its own stack and open source finally delivers
Most AI applications ship without real observability. They have logs, request counts, maybe a Grafana dashboard with token usage over time. What they lack is the layer that lets an engineer answer…
Trigger a systemd script on ethernet cable connect and disconnect
An embedded device that switches between acting as a DHCP client on a wired network and a DHCP server when unplugged has exactly one useful signal: the ethernet carrier state. systemd-networkd knows…
simplex chat asks its own users to fund the next year
Privacy-focused messaging apps have a recurring problem. The people who care about privacy are not the same people who pay for software. Most users expect the app to be free, the server…
Why your ML model passes tests and still fails in production
I have shipped ML models that passed every CI check I could write, and then quietly returned bad predictions in production for weeks before anyone noticed. The bug was never in the…
How I built a hybrid book recommender with Python and Streamlit
Audiobooks are a problem of too much choice. Audible’s catalogue runs into the tens of thousands of titles across self-help, business, fiction, fantasy, technology, history, and several more genres I have never…