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🚀 Welcome to this week’s Friday Readings! A fresh batch of interesting tools, security research, infrastructure deep dives, and reflections on how AI is changing engineering culture. 🛠️ Tools & Projects Portless - A Vercel Labs experiment that removes the need to manage ports when running local services. Interesting concept for simplifying local development environments. git-cliff - A highly customizable changelog generator that uses conventional commits and templates to produce clean release notes. worldmonitor - A terminal-based global monitoring dashboard showing real-time data like earthquakes, weather, and world statistics. Fizzy - A simple event-based messaging system by Basecamp designed to keep things lightweight and understandable. Hapticpad - A creative project turning a touchpad into a haptic interface experiment. gptme - A CLI tool that lets you interact with LLMs directly from your terminal and automate workflows with AI. Claude Code Templates - A collection of templates for building structured Claude-based coding workflows. Claude Code System Prompts - A repository documenting and analyzing system prompts used by Claude coding tools. AI Skills Library - A growing collection of reusable AI prompts and “skills” for different workflows. 📚 Articles Worth Your Time The Real Reason Developers Hate Meetings - A thoughtful explanation that meetings break cognitive flow rather than simply consuming time. The Senior Developer Is Now the New Entry Level - A provocative perspective on rising expectations and shifting job market dynamics in software engineering. Sysadmin in the LLM Age - A reflection on how system administration evolves when AI becomes a routine tool in everyday operations. How AWS S3 Is Built - A deep dive into the architecture and design principles behind one of the most influential storage systems ever built. 🔐 Security & Science AirSnitch Attack Breaks Wi-Fi Encryption - Researchers demonstrate a new attack technique targeting Wi-Fi encryption implementations across environments. AI Recommending Nuclear Strikes in War Simulations - A reminder that optimization-driven AI systems can converge on extreme strategies when objectives are poorly defined. mRNA Cancer Vaccine Shows Long-Term Protection - Encouraging early results suggesting durable protection from experimental cancer vaccines. 🧠 AI, Work & Culture Burnout Among AI Power Users - Early signals that people who push AI tools hardest may also experience new kinds of cognitive overload. GitHub Copilot Agents Guide - Documentation and examples around building agent-style workflows with Copilot. 🎮 Internet Curiosity Hackers (1995) Retro Terminal - A nostalgic recreation of the hacker aesthetic from the 1995 film. Pure terminal-era cyberpunk vibes. Thanks for reading! ...

🚀 Welcome to this week’s Friday Readings! A quick collection of must‑reads, tool announcements, and tech highlights that caught my eye recently. 🛠️ Tools & Projects Dockhand - A modern, local-first approach to container workflows, aiming to reduce Docker Compose sprawl and cognitive load. Rekindle - A distraction-free reading environment for long-form content. A quiet rebellion against algorithmic feeds. multiOTP - A mature open-source OTP/MFA solution with solid fundamentals and zero marketing fluff. PegaProx - Proxy-centric experimentation around traffic control and interception, useful for labs and protocol analysis. Oh My OpenCode - A curated collection of OpenCode / AI tooling, scripts, and experiments worth exploring. 📚 Articles & Essays A GDPR Failure - A real-world post-mortem showing how compliance fails when process, ownership, and reality diverge. 21 Lessons Learned - Career-scale reflections on engineering, leverage, and long-term thinking, distilled without guru theatrics. Terraform vs Terragrunt - A balanced comparison focused on trade-offs, not ideology. Especially useful for growing infra teams. 12 On-Call Dashboards That Calm Everyone Down - Observability through a human lens: fewer surprises, clearer signals, lower stress. 🔐 Security & Research Notepad Hijacking by Lotus Blossom - A reminder that “boring” binaries remain valuable targets, and persistence often hides in plain sight. arXiv: 2601.19062 - Fresh research touching AI systems and reasoning. Dense, but rewarding if you enjoy first-principles thinking. 🎮 Culture & Light Reading What Book You Should Read Based on Your Favorite Game - A playful crossover between games and literature, surprisingly decent for inspiration. Thanks for reading! ...

Apple T2 Macs are… special. If you run Proxmox on something like a Mac mini 2018, you’ll eventually touch out-of-tree kernel modules and discover that Linux kernel APIs love change. Running Proxmox on a Mac mini 2018 with T2 chip requires the applesmc_t2_kmod kernel module for proper fan control. After some research I’ve found the repo MCMrARM/mbp2018-etc which was slighly outdated for 2026, as I faced some issues described below. Common issues Missing linux/input-polldev.h - this header was removed years ago. I have to patch the source to remove the #include and any polled-input code. ...

🚀 Welcome to this week’s Friday Readings! A quick collection of must‑reads, tool announcements, and tech highlights that caught my eye recently. 🛠️ Tools & Projects Dockhand - A modern, local-first approach to container workflows, aiming to reduce Docker Compose sprawl and cognitive load. Rekindle - A distraction-free reading environment for long-form content. A quiet rebellion against algorithmic feeds. multiOTP - A mature open-source OTP/MFA solution with solid fundamentals and zero marketing fluff. PegaProx - Proxy-centric experimentation around traffic control and interception, useful for labs and protocol analysis. Oh My OpenCode - A curated collection of OpenCode / AI tooling, scripts, and experiments worth exploring. 📚 Articles & Essays A GDPR Failure - A real-world post-mortem showing how compliance fails when process, ownership, and reality diverge. 21 Lessons Learned - Career-scale reflections on engineering, leverage, and long-term thinking, distilled without guru theatrics. Terraform vs Terragrunt - A balanced comparison focused on trade-offs, not ideology. Especially useful for growing infra teams. 12 On-Call Dashboards That Calm Everyone Down - Observability through a human lens: fewer surprises, clearer signals, lower stress. 🔐 Security & Research Notepad Hijacking by Lotus Blossom - A reminder that “boring” binaries remain valuable targets, and persistence often hides in plain sight. arXiv: 2601.19062 - Fresh research touching AI systems and reasoning. Dense, but rewarding if you enjoy first-principles thinking. 🎮 Culture & Light Reading What Book You Should Read Based on Your Favorite Game - A playful crossover between games and literature, surprisingly decent for inspiration. Thanks for reading! ...

🚀 Welcome to this week’s Friday Readings! A quick collection of must‑reads, tool announcements, and tech highlights that caught my eye recently. 📚 Books The Art of Scalability (O’Reilly, 2nd ed.) - Classic playbook on scaling orgs and systems in tandem-people, process, and architecture patterns for sustainable growth. The Software Engineer’s Guidebook - A pragmatic career map from junior to principal with focused chapters on delivery, testing, architecture, and team dynamics. 📚 Articles Worth Your Time Think First, AI Second - A crisp argument for a “brain→AI” workflow-do your own thinking before prompting to preserve attention/memory and get better outcomes from AI. Atlantis with Terragrunt (Spacelift) - How to wire Atlantis to Terragrunt with custom workflows/webhooks, plus pros/cons and alternatives. Using Atlantis Plan as a Quality Gate (ControlMonkey) - Treat atlantis plan as a merge gate, integrate scanners (Checkov/Trivy/KICS), and note self-hosted limitations. Cloud Cost Optimization - A Senior Engineer’s Guide - Practical levers across app-level tuning, storage lifecycle, K8s autoscaling, ARM/edge choices, and cost-aware culture. OpenWrt Mesh 802.11s - Step-by-step to build an OpenWrt 802.11s mesh (including replacing wpad and enabling BATMAN-adv) for seamless roaming. Your Brain on Incidents - Human-centric incident tips: blameless culture, tuned alerting, and shorter on-call rotations to reduce cognitive load. 🛠️ New Tools & Announcements Next AI Draw.io - Prompt-driven diagramming (flowcharts, AWS arch, animated connectors) with file and image input for rapid diagram generation. Zerobyte - Restic-based backup automation with a web UI for scheduling/retention, multi-protocol sources (NFS/SMB/WebDAV/local), and Docker deployment. DockMon - Self-hosted Docker monitoring with real-time dashboards, multi-host support, intelligent auto-restart, and multi-channel alerting. Ingress-NGINX Retirement (Kubernetes) - SIG Network announces best-effort maintenance until March 2026 and recommends migration to Gateway API or another controller. Thanks for reading! ...