2026 / Week 21

uv's CLI feels surprisingly clunky compared to its peers like pnpm or Poetry.

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Learn the Proxmox VM disk settings I change on every new VM for better performance, storage efficiency, and responsiveness.

You bought VMware once, outright, the way you buy a tool. You paid for a perpetual licence, you owned it, and it kept running whether or not you ever spoke to the vendor again. In November 2023 a 69 billion US dollar (around 64 billion euro) acquisition closed, and over the following eighteen months the thing you owned was quietly, methodically converted into a thing you rent.

In this follow-up article, I take a deeper look at the VNA architecture in VCF 9.1, including placement, relocation, scaling, and network spans.

Get the most out of coding agents like Claude Code, Gemini CLI and Amp. Orchestrate multiple AI coding agents, track tasks, and manage your development workflow efficiently.

Docker ships with an undocumented API for spawning isolated microVMs. Here's how to use it for more than just AI agents.

RMUX keeps your shell alive, scriptable, and inspectable as a blazing-fast tmux-compatible multiplexer and Rust terminal automation engine.

One of the new components introduced in VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 is the VCF Management Services (VCFMS), which provides a centralized system for unifyin…

This is follow up to my previous blog post Deploying VCF 9 in a Minilab – I have made some changes in my lab and upgraded to VCF 9.1. My original HW BOM: Two GMKtec K8 Plus mini PCs. One with…

This video highlights the key features introduced in Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.2. The release debuts a Dynamic Load Balancer for real-time cluster resource scheduling and automated high-availability (HA) migrations. Networking receives an enterprise overhaul with native WireGuard and BGP fabrics for secure cross-site inter-node connections, alongside granular Route Maps and Prefix Lists for advanced BGP/EVPN route filtering.

Connect your CalDAV calendar, define bookable meetings, share a link. No Node.js, no PostgreSQL, no subscription.

A Vim-Inspired Approach to Efficient Note Management with Obsidian and Markdown

a very powerful solution for customers who wish to offer data services to their users, all the while maintaining multi-tenancy controls through VCF Automation

In VCF Automation 9.1 we can assign External IP to a particular VM that is connected to private or transit subnets and access it directly via that IP. This is similar to assigning public floating I…

When you upgrade VCF Automation to version 9.1, new VCF Services Runtime consumption cluster (internally called VMSP = VMware Management Services Platform) is deployed and the old one is left behin…

A substantial improvement in intelligence and behavior over Composer 2, particularly on long-horizon agentic tasks.

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In Data Services Manager version 9.1, MySQL databases can now leverage the the new snapshot capability in vSAN ESA.

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 introduces a few new updates with the license entitlement workflow between VCF Operations and VCF Business Service Console (BSC) for users operating in an air-gapp…

There are a number of exciting enhancements to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Single Sign-On (SSO) with the release of VCF 9.1 from Generic OIDC/SAML2 Identity Provider (IdP) support, streamline way…

VCF 9 Home Lab | Embedded vIDM (viDB) — AD Integration, Users, Groups & NSX SSO 📅 May 2026  |  🏷️ VCF 9 Home Lab Series  |  ✍...

IntroductionArchitectural Pillar: The 9.0 vs. 9.1A. Distributed Model: VCF 9.0 vs. VCF 9.1B. Centralized Model: VCF 9.0 vs. VCF 9.1Deep Dive: The Virtual Network Appliance (VNA)Decentralizing State…

When you delete a Kubernetes (K8s) cluster, you can sometimes end up with orphaned disks (persistent volumes) on your datastore. It can be difficult to identify them and they can take up unnecessar…

Persistent terminal multiplexer for coding agents. Detach, reattach, agents keep running.

Some notes and screenshots of my experience upgrading VCF 9.0.2 to VCF 9.10.

NetBird v0.71 introduces dual-stack overlay networking. Every peer can now receive both an IPv4 and an IPv6 address from a per-account prefix, with full DNS, ACL, exit-node, and network-route support out of the box.

Over the weekend, I had to re-deploy a portion of my VCF 9.1 Fleet, including VCF Operations, VCF Management Services, VCF License Server, SDDC Manager and VCF Automation, due to some workflows I w…

Related VCF Networking 9.1 Posts: VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) delivers the compute, storage, and networking services required to power modern cloud environments. In this blog, we focus specifically on the network services available within VCF 9.1 Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). Note: For a refresh into the fundamentals of VCF VPCs, check out our previous posts:Self-service … Continued

Related VCF Networking 9.1 Posts: VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) provides a robust suite of self-service networking capabilities (as covered in our previous post: [Link to: VCF 9.1 – Network Services]) In this blog, we zoom in on a powerful new feature introduced in VCF 9.1: Connectivity Policy for Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). Taking Control of … Continued