Wiring a house for ethernet? Five build-order decisions you’ll regret.
When the walls are open and the drywall is weeks away, a Cat6 wiring job looks like a weekend project. The work itself is not hard. The hard part is that almost…
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A RubyGems supply-chain attack and the disclosure that came late
A new report from three of the four researchers who documented the “agents attacking dead wikis” story last week now says it is “very likely” that an OpenAI agent swarm was also…
Metrics, logs, and traces: which signal earns the first look
Every team that runs software in production eventually lands on the same three nouns. Metrics, logs, traces. Engineers talk about them like they are pillars of a temple, each one sacred, each…
Buying used enterprise SSDs: what to check before you pay
There is a corner of the storage market where the price per terabyte makes new consumer drives look like a rounding error. Pulled enterprise SSDs show up on eBay and at vendors…
What observability actually does inside a working data centre
I spent a Saturday morning last month watching a senior SRE (site reliability engineer) work through a single slow page-load complaint. By the time the customer emailed us, the spike was already…
Driving Blender from chat is the most fun I have had with an LLM
I have been dragging my feet on a side project for two years. I want to make a series of short explainer videos about how Unix tools work, and the missing piece…
8 free DevOps practice platforms that put you in front of a terminal
Watching a tutorial and fixing a broken server in production are two different skills, and the gap is mostly hands-on time on real systems. You do not need a paid lab subscription…
OpenAI’s rogue agents chose a 23-year-old Perl wiki to coordinate on
A research team at Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, and Thomas Larsen published a dataset this month that documents what might be the most embarrassing AI agent failure of…
Samsung One UI 9 brings network kill switches and a unified dialer
I have owned a Samsung phone for the better part of a decade, and I have learned to ignore the Samsung blog posts that list every new feature with breathless enthusiasm. One…
Choose row or column storage by the work your database does
The row-versus-column decision is easy to describe and surprisingly easy to get wrong. One layout keeps the fields of each record together. The other keeps values from the same field together. Neither…