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AgentCon Preday: Securing Agentic AI in Production
AgentCon Preday Amsterdam (Sept 16, 2026): a look at securing agentic AI in production — supply-chain risk, AI code review, and cloud-native scale.
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Claude Code Plugins for Better Websites
Six Claude Code plugins that turn generic AI UI into production-grade sites: Frontend Design, Playwright, DevTools, Figma, Vercel, and Context7.
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My August 2026: KubeCon Japan, Red Hat Summit & More
August 2026 roundup: KubeCon Japan, Red Hat Summit, Hiroshima, Amsterdam meetups, and the AI platform trends I'm watching.
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EDGECASE 2026: Gotta Catch 'Em All
EDGECASE 2026 returns September 24 in Hilversum — the Netherlands' biggest Kubernetes event, 400+ cloud native engineers, hosted by Bart Farrell.
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Astro Responsive Images: 50% Smaller with AVIF, WebP
Use Astro's Image component with formats [avif, webp] and a widths array for an automatic responsive srcset — about half the JPEG size.
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BrowserStack Meetup Amsterdam: AI's Impact on QA
Luca attended the BrowserStack Meetup Amsterdam 2026, exploring how AI is reshaping QA — from Claude + Playwright to GenAI in quality engineering.
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Fish Audio Raises $52M Seed for AI Voice Models
Fish Audio's $52M seed funds AI voice models for creators and enterprises — 8M+ users, $21M ARR, and an open-source Fish Speech lineage.
5 min readAI Builders Amsterdam: A Hands-On AI Meetup Recap
AI Builders Amsterdam recap: talks on validating side projects, docs for agents, and running local LLM agents at StartDock.
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Watermelon UI and 3 More UI & AI Tools I'm Watching in 2026
Watermelon UI (ui.watermelon.sh) is a free, open-source React registry: 600+ components, 100+ animations, sections and templates on Tailwind and Radix.
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Add a Live QR Code in Word
Use the native DISPLAYBARCODE field in Word to embed a real, updatable QR code that links to lucaberton.com — no add-in required.
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Azure Linux 4.0: Microsoft's First-Party Linux in Preview
Azure Linux 4.0 is now in public preview: Microsoft's Fedora-derived, dnf5-powered, secure-by-default Linux built for Azure VMs, AKS, and containers.
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Claude Code Usage Limits: Session vs Weekly
Claude Code's Usage page shows two limits: a rolling session and a weekly cap across all models, plus temporary boosts that revert to your plan baseline.
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YAGNI: You Aren't Gonna Need It
YAGNI — You Aren't Gonna Need It — an Extreme Programming rule against building features no current requirement demands. Less code, fewer bugs, faster delivery.
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Soup CLI: Fine-Tune an 8B LLM on a 4 GB GPU
Soup is an open-source LLM fine-tuning CLI on GitHub. One YAML, one command, and layer streaming trains an 8B model on a 4 GB GPU. How it works, quick start.
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Model Soups: Better Fine-Tuning by Averaging Weights
Model Soups average N fine-tuned checkpoints into one. No extra inference cost or latency, often beats the single best run. Recipe + PyTorch code inside.
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Netris Raises $15M to Automate AI Neocloud Networks
Netris raised a $15M a16z Series A to automate AI neocloud networks: hardware-accelerated, deterministic, no AI in the product.
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Meta Muse Glimmer: A 30B Agentic Model for Your GPU
Meta open-sourced Muse Glimmer, a 30B dense agentic model that runs under 20GB on a consumer GPU via 4-bit quantization and DFlash speculative decoding.
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Photonic Networks: the Standout Tech at KubeCon Japan 2026
From KubeCon Japan 2026: photonic networks could reshape the AI data center by moving data optically — Fujitsu leads this work in Japan.
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Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony 2026: Attending in Person
I attended the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony on 6 August 2026. Here is what the minute of silence, 120 nations, and two hibakusha testimonies taught me.
5 min readCommunity & Takeaways from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026
From KubeCon Japan 2026: the growing CNCF platform-engineering community in Japan, hallway-track moments, and how AI helped me discover volcanic eggs.
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Kata Containers 4.0 Reinforces AI Agent Sandboxing with a New Rust Runtime
Kata Containers 4.0 ships runtime-rs, a Rust runtime replacing Go, hardening AI agent sandboxing with VM-grade isolation and lower startup latency.
3 min readCloud Native in the Real World: Optics, Subaru & Uber (KubeCon Japan 2026)
From KubeCon Japan 2026: an optics maker and Subaru running AI on cloud-native infrastructure, plus a walk through the Uber booth on the show floor.
3 min readOpen Source Building Blocks for AI Platforms (KubeCon Japan 2026)
From KubeCon Japan 2026: the AI conformance framework for portability, a CNCF+in-house research platform, and dynamic resource composition in CNCF sandbox.
3 min readSecurity, Isolation & Sovereign AI on Kubernetes (KubeCon Japan 2026)
From KubeCon Japan 2026: holding AI isolation without killing efficiency, the hybrid namespace/dedicated-tools pattern, and open-source sovereign orchestration.
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