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NVIDIA PAIR: Turn Idle PCs Into a Personal AI Cluster
NVIDIA launches PAIR, free open-source software that links computers on the same network and pools unused compute for local AI across RTX, DGX Spark, and Mac.
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Vercel Cost Optimization: Lessons from a Real Audit
Optimizing infrastructure on Vercel won't drop your bill below the Pro plan price. Here is what actually moves the needle and how to act.
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End Summer Camp 2026: Hacking & Free Software in Italy
My first End Summer Camp — 7 days of hacking, free software, and DIY at Parco della Scultura in San Donà di Piave, Italy.
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Google's Beta AI Stack: Stitch, Pomelli, Opal, and Whisk
Google Labs ships four free AI beta tools: Stitch for UI design, Pomelli for marketing, Opal for no-code apps, and Whisk for image blending.
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The PostgreSQL Monitoring Gap: Why Default Prometheus Exporters Miss Per-Query Duration
Default postgres_exporter shows connection counts and long-transaction totals but not which query is slow. Here is what is missing and how to close the gap.
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GPT-6 Astra: Token Efficiency Gains vs. 2.5x Price Tag
GPT-6 Astra matches Fable 5 on coding at lower cost, but 2.5x pricing and mixed knowledge-work gains. What the benchmarks mean for production.
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Fix cAdvisor + Docker 29 containerd-snapshotter Errors
cAdvisor's Docker factory is broken against Docker 29's containerd-snapshotter layout. Fix by removing cAdvisor and using docker stats.
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Fix Google OAuth invalid_client Error
Google OAuth Error 401 invalid_client: the OAuth client was not found. Fix redirect URIs, client IDs, consent screen publishing status, and API enablement.
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Claude Code Bootcamp: Build, Orchestrate, Review, Ship
7.5-hour hands-on bootcamp with 10 projects. Build, orchestrate, review, and ship with Claude Code, Skills, hooks, subagents, and Agent Teams.
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DeepSWE v1.1: What the Latest LLM Coding Benchmark Reveals About Cost vs. Performance
DataCurve's DeepSWE v1.1 grades 27 LLM configs on real coding tasks. The best value isn't always the priciest.
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Fix cAdvisor Containerd Namespace Mismatch with Docker 29
Fix cAdvisor not seeing Docker 29 containers. Set --containerd-namespace=moby to match Docker's containerd namespace instead of the k8s.io default.
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Tech Makers August Tech Drinks: Pitches, Startups, and a Little Chaos
Recap of Tech Makers' August tech drinks at The Social Hub Amsterdam — startup pitches from ZAZZpay, PulseMail, and more, with the usual good chaos.
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Fix NFS over RDMA: When libcufile_rdma.so Is Not Your Problem
Mounting NFS via kernel? libcufile_rdma.so is user-space GDS and irrelevant. The real issue is rpcrdma.ko built without nvfs DMA hooks.
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A Year of Badges: My Superpower Is Staying Current
A year of conference badges from Cloud_Native Rejekts to KubeCon, AWS Summit and TNW — and why staying current with cloud-native and AI trends is my real edge.
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PostgreSQL Is More Than Relational: ldap-pg
PostgreSQL is more than a relational database. The ldap-pg project runs an LDAP directory on a PostgreSQL backend using JSONB and JSONPATH — here is how.
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Ballard's Test, and Why Today's AI Still Fails It
Ballard's Test: reason without language proves understanding. AlphaGeometry and Coconut rediscover a 144-year-old Smithsonian idea — LLMs aren't reason engines.
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Kubernetes 1.37: What Platform Engineers Should Know
Kubernetes 1.37 (Garhwal) brings 67 enhancements — metrics API goes stable, HPA scales to zero, gang scheduling hits beta, and DRA matures.
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Open-Source Voice AI You Can Run on a Laptop
A roundup of open-source speech-to-text, diarization, and text-to-speech engines you can run locally, plus S1-mini for on-device transcript cleanup.
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Weft + Tangle: Build AI Orchestrations, Not Agents
Weft is an open-source language for AI orchestration; Tangle is the AI that writes it. Structured graphs you can read, audit, and run at native speed.
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AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam
AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe lands September 17-18, 2026 at RAI Amsterdam. As a media partner I'm sharing a 25% discount code for the agentic AI + MCP conference.
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Securing Octane with OpenSCAP
Use OpenSCAP to assess the RHEL base OS behind OpenText Software Delivery Management (ALM Octane) before you harden it — scan first, remediate later.
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AI Watermark Removal: A Practical Guide
AI tools embed invisible watermarks and C2PA metadata. Detect and remove them from text, images, and docs with the open-source watermarks-remover toolkit.
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Go Meetup Amsterdam: The Curious Case of the Missing Memory
Notes from Mohammed Nafees's Go Amsterdam talk on finding missing memory with pprof, RSS, garbage collection, retention, and off-heap allocations.
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Go Meetup Amsterdam: How to Stay Passionate in Tech in the Age of AI
Notes from Ainsley Clark's Go Amsterdam talk on staying passionate in tech during the AI age, covering career, craft, community, and motivation.
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