Infrastructure, deployments, automation.
Microsoft quietly published lib0xc on GitHub this week — described in its own README as “a set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming.” It’s MIT-licensed, sits in the official Microsoft GitHub org, and reached the front page …
Zed reached 1.0 yesterday — a milestone five years in the making. For an editor that’s been in heavy public beta since 2022, with hundreds of thousands of users already running it daily, the version number is symbolic rather than …
Mitchell Hashimoto — the original creator of Vagrant, Packer, Terraform, and now Ghostty, the modern terminal emulator that’s been getting a lot of attention since its 1.0 release last year — published a post on Monday saying Ghostty is leaving …
The pgBackRest GitHub repository was archived this week — the maintainer announced that the project is no longer being actively developed. For anyone running production PostgreSQL backups via pgBackRest (and that’s a lot of people; it’s been the de facto …
GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing — announced this week on the GitHub blog. The flat $10 / $19 / $39 per-seat pricing isn’t going away entirely, but each tier now comes with a “premium request” budget, and once …
You have a few internal services on your homelab — a Home Assistant box, a Plex server, a TrueNAS UI, an Uptime Kuma dashboard. They all live on 192.168.1.x with random ports. You want to give them clean URLs (…
Last quarter I spent two days debugging why our PDF-from-HTML pipeline was rendering text as little tofu boxes (□ □ □) on every page. The HTML was fine, the chromium-headless invocation was fine, the output PDF was fine in every …
You wrote a small CLI tool — a deploy script, a log parser, a backup wrapper. Two coworkers want to use it on their Macs. You email them a tarball. Three months later you fix a bug. Now you have …
People build a homelab and immediately start with three drives, four NUCs, a 10GbE switch, Proxmox cluster — an installation that takes a weekend, costs $1,500, and breaks within a month because there’s too much to keep working. The home-server …
iCloud backup “just works” until it doesn’t — until your iCloud quota fills, or you decide that storing the unencrypted contents of your iPhone at Apple is a posture you don’t love, or your Mac dies and you want a …