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…
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Linux text one-liners that still hold up in 2026, mostly
I have a confession. The first time I ran a word-frequency pipeline against a man page, I shipped numbers that were off by a factor of three. The output looked plausible. The…
Seven free Linux tools that automate the desktop without scripting
If you run a Linux desktop for actual work, you have probably hit the wall where a task you do every day is too small to script but too annoying to keep…
I dropped Adobe Creative Cloud and the bill went to zero
I cancelled my Adobe Creative Cloud subscription last year, and the only regret I have is that I did not do it sooner. The full Creative Cloud suite was costing me somewhere…
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…
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…
Chrome hides the clear-cookies-on-exit toggle, here is where it moved
You open Chrome settings looking for the clear-cookies-on-exit option. You go to the page where it used to live. It is not there. It looks like a bug or a broken profile.…
A safer Python workflow for trimming prompt token waste
Prompt optimization is often sold as a clever compression trick. The more useful way to view it is as maintenance. A prompt is an interface between a person, an application, and a…
5 ways to kill a Windows process Task Manager refuses to end
You click End task in Task Manager. The process sits there, doing nothing, refusing to die. The application is hung, the request to close never lands, and Task Manager looks broken. It…
How to expose a Linux service through whichever firewall is running
If a service works on the box you started it on but cannot be reached from another machine, the host firewall is one of the first places to look. Opening a port…