Reading AI output is the bottleneck, not the model
I have spent the last two years watching language models generate walls of text that I then had to read, verify, and manually implement. The pattern was always the same: prompt, wait,…
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An open source runtime catches up to Claude Managed Agents
I have been running agents in production for about three years, and the gap between what a hosted runtime like Claude Managed Agents (Anthropic’s managed service that wraps a model in a…
Google’s $1.5B Mechanize bet is a roadmap for coding tools
When a Fortune 500 company writes a check that is three times the startup’s last valuation a year ago, the rational explanation is almost never product revenue. In the case of Google…
Bot Pull Requests Get Better When You Add an AGENTS.md
Eighteen months into the agent-shaped pull request era, the maintainers I trust have stopped arguing about whether to accept the work. The argument that now actually matters is whether the repo is…
How to Find Command Location and Description in Linux
How to Find Where a Command Lives on Linux (and What it Actually Does) Every few weeks I find myself typing some command I have used for years, and I cannot remember…
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…
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…
This free terminal app is the first thing I install on every new PC, and I can’t work without it
This free terminal app is the first thing I install on every new PC, and I can’t work without it I have set up at least fifteen Windows machines for friends, family,…
I tried an open-source alternative to Notion, Obsidian, and Evernote and it blew my mind
I have used Notion, Obsidian, and Evernote over the years, sometimes paid, sometimes not, and the one thing I kept wanting was a single tool that did not punish me for switching.…
AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder
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…