shadow ai lives in the browser tab, not the perimeter
The loudest threat actors in 2026 are not the ones you read about on a Friday night. They are the ones already inside your building, sitting at a desk, doing their job.…
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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…
Self-hosted Datasette: a 0.5a0 release that fits CI
If you self-host Datasette (a Python tool that publishes SQLite databases as a queryable web service) and you have ever wanted to push a freshly built database to a production instance without…
Anthropic’s free Claude for OSS program is an audition
Anthropic quietly started handing out six-month subscriptions to Claude Max 20x (a paid tier of Anthropic’s Claude AI assistant) to qualifying open-source maintainers earlier this year, and most of the developer press…
a2-stuff/indicium-mail-tui hands your inbox to a local AI over MCP
Most terminal email clients assume you want a mail reader. a2-stuff’s Indicium Mail TUI assumes you want a mail reader that can also hand your inbox to an AI agent and step…
C-Kermit 11 lands after fifteen years of quiet Debian maintenance
C-Kermit is, depending on your age, either a tool you used to move files between very different computers in the early days of the internet, or something you have never heard of.…
What CachyOS August 2026 actually delivers for daily drivers
I have been running CachyOS as my daily driver for about a year, and the August 2026 release is the first one I would describe as the release that decided what CachyOS…
Illinois OS age verification bill leaves the open source exemption gap
A new Illinois law treats a Linux distribution and a closed-source mobile OS as legally equivalent actors in the age-signal chain. That is the headline. The details are duller and more interesting.…
Linux networking interview prep for people who have shipped systems
Most Linux networking interview prep focuses on definitions. What is DNS? What is a subnet mask? What is the OSI model? Those answers are worth about ten seconds of an interviewer’s time.…
The five MySQL questions that actually trip people up
I keep a folder of MySQL interview prep that grows about as fast as the engine itself. Every time someone asks me what to study for a database interview, the honest answer…