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In ‘Next Generation Tooling for Developers’ I wondered how these venture-backed companies would make money. Since then most of them have been acquired: Anthropic bought Bun, Cloudflare bought Astro and VoidZero, and OpenAI bought Astral.

OpenCode is the open-source agentic CLI tool that both Anthropic and Google moved to block from their subscription APIs. Here’s a hands-on look at what makes it genuinely different, and whether it’s worth switching from Claude Code.

TrueNAS 25.10 (Goldeye) removed SMART Scheduling from the Web UI. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Ways to run Claude Code in a sandbox

MAML and TOON are two new configuration languages.

Although Cloudflare Pages is still around, since 2023 Cloudflare has been merging some of the features into Workers. Nowadays, while both Pages and Workers can be used, Workers is the preferred option. Workers now has all the same static asset hosting features as Pages, plus additional features.

Comparison of Playwright MCP server vs. Chrome DevTools MCP server

Run Home Assistant on Kubernetes with the Helm chart, covering persistence, add-ons, replicas, and how it compares to Home Assistant OS for homelab smart home deployments.

Today I learned about Grebedoc — static site hosting for git forges.

Step-by-step Node.js pre-commit setup: Husky + lint-staged + Oxc to enforce linting, formatting, and TypeScript checks before every git commit.

How to setup new Node.js projects, with linting and formatting using Oxc.

How to harden MCP security: real-world horror stories, supply-chain risks, malicious servers, and practical defenses for agentic CLI tools.

After two years of postponements, the Kinneret cycling race finally happened again. It was the 45th edition of the event but my first time riding it.

Istio is known for its service mesh capabilities, however it can also serve as a Gateway and Ingress Controller, with support for both Ingress resources and Gateway API resources.

Overview of Lima and Colima on macOS, how they differ, install commands, Docker usage examples, and Apple’s native Container runtime.

Step-by-step Docker Engine install on Linux and WSL with post-install steps, verification commands, and alternative container runtime options.

Configure Git once for both Windows and WSL: install Git and GCM, reuse your .gitconfig, and enable seamless credential handling across environments.

In recent months I have been learning about Astral, and have started using uv and ruff. This led me to try to find similar tools for other languages.

Overview of AWS CDK, cdk8s, and CDKTF: constructs model, synth commands, language support, IaC comparisons, and personal lessons learned.

Hands-on review of Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Claude Code 2.0 for developers: coding experience, benchmarks, usage limits, and workflow tips.

Overview of the Diátaxis documentation framework: tutorials, how-to guides, reference, and explanation, and when to use it for clearer tech docs.

I have recently learned about uv and the uv workflow. Since then, I’ve been using uv a lot more, both for personal projects and at work!

Comparison of Bitbucket vs. GitHub vs. GitLab

Comparison of Claude Code vs. Cursor CLI vs. Gemini CLI vs. Codex CLI

There are different User Interfaces that help use Docker.

Hands-on impressions of GPT-5 across ChatGPT, Cursor CLI, and Microsoft Copilot, plus notes on quotas, hallucinations, and the auto-router trade-offs.

Today I learned, in Kubernetes v1.34, kubectl will also support a new strict subset of YAML called KYAML.

Hands-on review of OpenAI o3: deep research-style answers, multi-source web lookups, latency tradeoffs, and comparisons to ChatGPT 4o/4.5/4.1.

In part one of this article series, I review several of the books and written materials that I have read while learning about Kubernetes.

In part two of the series, I reviewed Kubernetes practice labs and mock exams.

Part one of a three-part CKA prep series reviewing courses, with links to follow-on pieces about labs and books.

It’s finally here! Amazon Linux 2023. Originally named Amazon Linux 2022, then silently renamed to Amazon Linux 2023 after a delay… Was it worth the wait?