Five self-hosting stories worth following this week
A useful self-hosting roundup should do more than list releases. It should tell me which change deserves an evening, which one deserves caution, and which one can wait until somebody else finds…
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The quieter AI trade-off inside open source projects
The “AI is destroying open source” headline has been recycled in some form every six months since 2022. The actual story is more interesting and less dramatic. Generative AI has changed who…
Mozilla is rebuilding its fellowship program in public
Mozilla (the nonprofit behind Firefox) is rethinking the program that has trained a decade of public-interest technologists, and the rewrite is happening in the open. The fellowship itself, with its 200-plus alumni…
I ditched Alexa for a bedside briefing box, fully offline
I have been trying to replace my Alexa morning briefing for two years. The Alexa one was fine for weather and the BBC, but the headline mix was wrong. Too many stories…
Context, not the model, is breaking your Python agents
Half of the agent failures I see in Python projects come from bad context, not a bad model. The other half come from the same thing in a different costume. Context engineering…
Run SuperGrok inside Hermes without an xAPI key
I have been paying for SuperGrok for eight months. I also use Hermes Agent (an open-source AI agent runtime that you can self-host or run on your laptop) for most of my…
What Europe’s tech sovereignty package actually does
The European Commission published its European Technological Sovereignty Package in mid-2026, and most of the English-language coverage I have read has either skipped the substance or framed it as a procurement tweak.…
Past your first Python projects? Here’s what to learn next
I have been writing about Python for a while, and I get a version of this question every week. Someone is six months into learning Python, has built a few small projects,…
My 2019 RTX 2070 Super replaced every AI subscription I had
I run a GeForce RTX 2070 Super on my desk, and it has been quietly handling every local AI workload I have thrown at it for the last six months. The card…
Claude Code took my messy NotebookLM research and actually organized it
I have been using NotebookLM for research for about a year, and it does one thing better than any other AI tool I have tried: it actually sticks to the sources I…