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…
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What agentic AI actually does (and where it falls apart)
The phrase “agentic AI” gets used like a magic word in 2026. Every product page, every pitch deck, every LinkedIn thread seems to slap it on whatever the vendor is selling. Most…
When Linux won’t boot: a triage order that works across distros
A Fedora workstation dropped me to a GRUB prompt two months ago because a partial DNF upgrade left the kernel updated but the initramfs unregenerated. I rebuilt the initramfs in eight minutes…
Six ways to test an open port without installing telnet on Linux
You stood up a service, opened a firewall rule, or wired up a reverse proxy. Now you want to know if a specific port is actually reachable from where you are. The…
Run your own tailnet with Headscale and skip Tailscale’s cloud
I did not get the Tailscale pitch until I installed it. The client goes on a device, you log in once, and the rest of the tailnet shows up like it was…
Nine Rust publishing tools matched to the work they fit
Rust static site generators have split into recognizable jobs. One wants to build a conventional website from a single binary. Another turns Markdown into a book. A third treats connected notes as…
Four Scheme tools for building small static websites
Scheme is not where most people start when they need a website. That is exactly why these four static site generators are interesting. They treat publishing as a programming problem, not as…
TiDB gave me a distributed MySQL on my laptop in fifteen minutes
I have been the person explaining to a junior engineer why their beautifully normalised MySQL schema will not survive Black Friday, and I have been the junior engineer who built that schema…
Pick a Linux backup tool in 2026 without burning another weekend
I have spent the better part of a decade running backup strategies for production servers and personal workstations. If there is one thing I have learned the hard way, it is this:…
Self-hosting notes from the week Immich refused to add mobile tags
The Selfh.st roundup for the week of 19 June 2026 leads with Immich, the popular Google Photos alternative that continues to ignore the author’s “desperate pleas for tags on mobile.” Immich is…