GLM-5.2 from Z.ai may be the strongest open weights text model now
A new open weights model from Chinese AI lab Z.ai dropped on June 16th under an MIT license, and the early benchmarks suggest it deserves attention. GLM-5.2 (the latest in the GLM…
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Schedule one-off Linux jobs with at and stop abusing cron
I used to write cron entries for things that should have been one-shot jobs. A temporary firewall rule for a vendor. A service restart at 2 AM. A reminder to pull a…
TSA PreCheck just works from Google Wallet now
I fly maybe four times a year, and every trip has the same ten-minute friction at the TSA PreCheck line: dig out the boarding pass, dig out the driver’s license, scan the…
Ubuntu’s AI bet is staying out of your face, and that’s the point
I read Jon Seager’s post on the Ubuntu Discourse about where AI is going in Ubuntu, and the part that stuck with me was the sentence: “Ubuntu won’t become an AI product.”…
Google’s AI Search redesign eats more of the open web
At the I/O conference on May 19th, Google announced the biggest change to Search in over 25 years, and almost nobody outside the SEO industry noticed. The “Intelligent Search Box” pushes AI…
I Replaced My Claude Subscription With a 1.2B Model That Runs on My Phone
I paid Claude roughly $20 a month for everyday questions, weather lookups, and the occasional weekend study guide for my kid. Then I read Nolen Jonker’s piece on XDA Developers, where they…
Mengram: The AI Memory API That Remembers What Matters
The hardest part of building an AI agent is not the model. It is the memory. Every agent framework I have used in the last year has its own half-baked solution for…
Cloudflare Agents: Build and Deploy AI Agents on Cloudflare
Cloudflare Agents: Build and Deploy AI Agents on Cloudflare’s Edge Cloudflare Agents is a managed platform for deploying AI agents. The platform runs on Cloudflare’s edge network. The agents are written in…
Zvec: Alibaba’s Lightning-Fast In-Process Vector Database, and Why It Matters
Zvec: Alibaba’s Lightning-Fast In-Process Vector Database, and Why It Matters Alibaba open-sourced Zvec in late 2025. Zvec is an in-process vector database written in Rust. The benchmarks are impressive (2-4x faster than…
Pi Mono: The All-In-One AI Agent Toolkit From the Creator of libgdx
Pi Mono: The All-In-One AI Agent Toolkit From the Creator of libgdx Pi Mono is a new AI agent toolkit from Mario Zechner, the creator of libgdx (a popular open-source game development…