Hunting duplicate files from inside Ranger’s filter stack
Ranger (a terminal file manager for Linux) has a feature most people who use it have never touched: the filter stack. It is one of those parts of the program that sits…
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OpenSearch is no longer the Elasticsearch fork and they know it
Five years after the Apache 2.0 fork, OpenSearch is having an identity conversation. The project started in 2021 as a community response to Elastic’s shift away from an open source license, and…
Why your Steam desktop icons went blank and how to fix it
A blank desktop icon for a Steam game is one of the most common Windows desktop glitches, and the reason it is so common is that Windows is doing three different things…
Five API security habits that keep an intern off the news
A small SaaS I know of had its customer database quietly drained for three weeks last quarter. No headline-grabbing intrusion. No zero-day. Just an endpoint that took a customer ID and never…
Rust just shipped an AI policy that puts humans back in the loop
Open source maintainers have been arguing about LLM-generated patches for three years. Some close them on sight. Some welcome them. A few major projects have decided that the answer is somewhere in…
How a hair thin cable carries most of the internet across oceans
Most of the intercontinental internet runs through cables that are about the thickness of a garden hose. I went looking for an explanation of how that actually works, and came away with…
Hyperswitch is the open-source payment router that runs on your box
If you have two payment processors and a wish list, the easy part is wiring them up. The hard part is the second processor, the third currency, the retry rules, the dashboard…
Linux security defaults in 2026 already protect most home desktops
If you just installed Linux and the first thing you wanted to do was install an antivirus, slow down. The instinct comes from Windows, where it is mostly correct, and it does…
Turn VLC into a free live TV player with a playlist link
VLC is one of those tools that does a lot more than it advertises. If you point it at a public IPTV playlist (a plain text file listing live TV stream URLs…
pick an ai coding assistant by the work you actually do
The expensive mistake in AI coding tools is choosing from a leaderboard when the real decision is about your working day. A terminal agent, an editor plug-in, a private deployment, and an…