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Writing on GPUs, LLMs, MLOps, Kubernetes — and mindset · 47 posts
The 18 CVEs in curl 8.21.0 — the "High-Quality Chaos" That Followed the End of the Bug Bounty
On June 24, 2026, curl 8.21.0 set a new project record by shipping 18 CVEs in a single release. Yet all 18 are Low or Medium, and there hasn't been a single High since October 2023. Behind that number is a project that,
2026-07-17 · 15 min read #network#security#curl#cve#open-sourceWho Maintains OPA Now — Styra's Team Joins Apple, and 11 Months of Verifiable Record
On August 20, 2025, an announcement said OPA's founders and a number of Styra team members were joining Apple, and a rumor spread through the community that 'Apple acquired OPA.' Checking primary sources tells a differen
2026-07-17 · 12 min read #security#opa#authorization#open-sourceRedis 8.8's Array Type — The First New Core Data Structure Since Streams, and What Valkey Doesn't Have
In May 2026, Redis 8.8 and Valkey 9.1 shipped six days apart. Redis 8.8 adds Array, a new core data structure built directly by antirez — a sparse index-addressed container for data where the index itself carries meaning
2026-07-16 · 16 min read #redis#valkey#data-structures#performance#open-sourceNix 2.35 Copies Flake Sources to the Store More Lazily — a 6-Year-8-Month Issue, and the Path Upstream Chose Instead of Lazy Trees
The first highlight of Nix 2.35.0, tagged July 13, 2026, is "Sources are copied to the store more lazily." The issue this one line closed, 3121, was opened by Eelco Dolstra himself on October 7, 2019, and closed on June
2026-07-16 · 14 min read #nix#reproducible-builds#build-systems#developer-experience#open-sourcetts-bench: comparing local TTS models when quality is subjective
tts-bench is a local benchmark by 5uck1ess for comparing 55 text-to-speech models on hardware you own. It splits evaluation into three lenses: Speed (TTFA, RTF, memory), Listen (every model on every prompt, judged by ear
2026-07-11 · 5 min read #tts#text-to-speech#benchmark#local-ai#evaluationReading Microsoft Flint — a Visualization Language for Agents to Draw Charts, Not to Be Drawn
Microsoft Research's Flint is not a language for visualizing agents — it is an intermediate language that lets AI agents reliably produce good-looking charts from data. A compiler derives the low-level decisions (scales,
2026-07-11 · 5 min read #ai#agents#data-visualization#llm#microsoftThe founder who went back to the terminal: Hashimoto on Ghostty, Zig, and open source with "no obligation"
Grounded in a recent interview, a look at why HashiCorp cofounder Mitchell Hashimoto stepped back from being a successful founder to build the terminal emulator Ghostty in Zig, a language not yet at 1.0. He admits that a
2026-07-11 · 6 min read #ghostty#zig#open-source#terminal#mitchell-hashimotoWhy Developers Are Leaving GitHub for Codeberg — and What You Actually Give Up
Posts titled 'I left GitHub for Codeberg' are multiplying. Behind them are real departures — Ghostty, Zig, Gentoo — plus frequent outages, GitHub's absorption into Microsoft's CoreAI division, and an April 2026 flip to o
2026-07-11 · 6 min read #github#codeberg#forgejo#self-hosting#open-sourceHow to Review AI-Written Code — Redesigning Code Review
The surge of AI-generated code has made code review the biggest bottleneck in the development pipeline. This post covers how defect patterns differ between human and AI code, redesigning review strategy around spec compa
2026-06-12 · 18 min read #ai#code-review#ai-agent#engineering-culture#open-sourceOpen Source ML Platforms & MLOps 2026 Deep Dive - Kubeflow, Metaflow, Flyte, ZenML, MLflow, BentoML, ClearML, DVC, Weights & Biases
As of May 2026, the production MLOps stack has crystallized into seven layers — experiment tracking (MLflow 3.0, W&B, Comet, Neptune.ai, Aim), pipeline orchestration (Kubeflow, Metaflow, Flyte, ZenML), model registries,
2026-05-16 · 17 min read #english#mlops#kubeflow#metaflow#flyteThe 2026 Open Source License Shift — A Deep Dive on the BSL Wave: Elastic, Redis, HashiCorp, Sentry, Valkey, OpenTofu
Since MongoDB moved to SSPL in 2018, Elastic in 2021, HashiCorp in 2023, and Redis in 2024 have all left Apache/MIT for non-OSI licenses like BSL, SSPL, and RSALv2. The result has been a stream of community forks (OpenSe
2026-05-16 · 31 min read #open-source#license#bsl#sspl#agplOpen Source Workspace & Collab Suites 2026 — NextCloud · ownCloud · Seafile · Collabora · OnlyOffice · CryptPad · Etherpad · LibreOffice Deep Dive
Google Workspace at 18 USD per seat per month. Microsoft 365 E3 at 36 USD. For 200 employees that crosses half a million a year, and the data lives in a US cloud. EU governments, Korean public agencies and Japanese munic
2026-05-16 · 31 min read #nextcloud#owncloud#seafile#collabora-online#onlyofficeThe 2026 Rising Open-Source Map — A Practitioner's Survey of OpenClaw, n8n, Langflow, Dify, and Ollama
A practitioner's survey of the open-source projects that exploded on GitHub in 2026. What OpenClaw, n8n, Langflow/Dify/Flowise, and Ollama are, why they're trending, when to use them, what the risks are — and how to vet
2026-05-14 · 16 min read #open-source#github#trending#openclaw#n8nThe 2026 Self-Hosting Renaissance — Personal Infra Rebuilt with Tailscale, Coolify, Dokku, and a Homelab
Early in the 2020s, everything moved to the cloud. By 2025-2026, more and more people are dragging computers back under their own desks. Tailscale gave away a working WireGuard mesh VPN for free, and the NAT-traversal ni
2026-05-14 · 25 min read #self-hosting#homelab#tailscale#coolify#dokkuOpen Source Funding in 2026: How Maintainers Actually Get Paid — GitHub Sponsors, Polar, Open Collective, Tidelift, Ko-fi Deep Dive
An honest comparison of the nine channels open source maintainers actually use to get paid in 2026 — GitHub Sponsors, Polar.sh, Open Collective, Tidelift, Patreon, Ko-fi, Liberapay, Thanks.dev, and Algora. Which channels
2026-05-14 · 24 min read #oss-funding#github-sponsors#polar#open-collective#tideliftOpen Source Licensing 2026 — BSL, SSPL, FSL, and 8 Years of Rebellion Against the Cloud — A Deep Dive (2026)
In a world where MIT and Apache 2.0 still account for 90% of open source, the 'rebellion' that started when MongoDB unveiled SSPL in 2018 has reached its eighth year. Elastic has returned to AGPL. Redis has followed the
2026-05-14 · 25 min read #open-source#licensing#bsl#sspl#fslThe Complete Open Source Contribution Guide: From Your First PR to Becoming a Maintainer (2026)
How to contribute to open source - from opening your first PR to becoming a maintainer. An honest look at the real payoffs and the myths around learning, career, and network, plus practical guidance on choosing a project
2026-05-14 · 17 min read #open-source#contribution#github#pull-request#maintainerBevy Game Engine — A Hands-On Rust ECS Tour of Modern Game Development (Deep Dive, 2026)
Inheritance-heavy object models from Unity and Unreal ruled the industry for thirty years, but the modern game engine of 2026 looks elsewhere. Entity-Component-System separates data from behavior and lays out memory for
2026-05-14 · 21 min read #bevy#game-engine#rust#ecs#gamedevThe Complete Guide to Open Source Monetization — How to Make Money While Giving Away Code for Free
Everything about open source monetization: 7 business models, success stories, licensing strategies, and community building.
2026-04-12 · 17 min read #culture#open-source#business#monetization#startup2025 Tech Trends Roundup: Hottest Technologies and Developer Insights from Hacker News
The hottest IT trends of 2025! AI Agent/MCP revolution, Rust rise, WebAssembly 2.0, Edge Computing, Local-first software, open source licensing debates, developer tools innovation, startup trends, Big Tech strategy — ana
2026-03-25 · 22 min read #tech-trends#hacker-news#ai#rust#webassembly