2026 / Week 25

explaining the different alert types, and how they are sent to email addresses of the different personas within DSM

Why I swapped GNU stow's symlink farm for chezmoi: one command to bootstrap a Mac with Homebrew packages and macOS settings, a small daily sync loop, and agent skills shared between Claude Code and Codex.

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I noticed how slow my ZSH had. gotten and decided to fix it. Timed, profiled, and fixed it.

The VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.x Installer includes a built-in resource calculator that automatically determines the required compute and storage resources, along with the estimated number of …

Compress tool outputs, logs, files, and RAG chunks before they reach the LLM. 60-95% fewer tokens, same answers. Library, proxy, MCP server. - chopratejas/headroom

We've all heard people say that Qwen is near-Opus level, but I have receipts and am here to be transparent with you.

Minimal container images often ship without curl, wget, or any HTTP client at all. Bash can open a TCP socket through /dev/tcp, which is enough to write a tiny HTTP/1.1 request by hand for quick checks.

Editorial note: This blog was originally published on January 15, 2025 and has been updated to reflect VCF 9.1 updates. Are you planning on deploying or have you already stood up your VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) private cloud using VMware vSAN? If you have deployed or are thinking of deploying your VCF environment using vSAN, … Continued

Local agentic coding has gotten great over the past few months

As part of deploying the new VCF Management Services (VCFMS) component, a pool of IP addresses is provided to support the automatic deployment and scale-out of additional worker nodes for Day-N ser…

So I've been job hunting lately. Reading job postings, doing interviews, talking to engineering teams at like a dozen companies. And I noticed...

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How an obsession with KPIs at Orange led people to game them, slowing service delivery to a crawl. A cautionary tale about Goodhart's law.

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Running Gemma 4 26B-A4B and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B locally with llama.cpp, MTP speculative decoding, multimodal support, and PI as a coding agent.

I've used Kubernetes for years, and it was time to make the TUI suitable for me. Inspired by k9s and lens.

zeroserveis a high-performance HTTPS server that runs eBPF scripts in userspace (intro). Now it's got a Caddy-compat mode - when provided a Caddyfile, zeroserve JIT-compiles it to eBPF and then to nat

Introduction Architectural Comparison: SSPI, SSP 5.1.1, and SSP 5.1.2Centralized Licensing Policies and Compliance MechanicsEnvironmental Dependencies and Deployment SequencePhase 1: Core Virtualiz…

I frequently deploy and re-deploy VMware Virtual Appliances (OVA), which I fully automate using OVFTool from my macOS x86 system. Recently, I noticed that deployments would consistently fail roughl…

Historically, enabling NVMe Tiering prior to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 was not very user friendly, as it required users to remember three distinct ESXCLI commands. # Enable or Disable NVMe …

During the deployment of an additional VCF 9.1 component, the precheck failed with the following platform health error: Platform Health Check Error
[platform-statefulsets-core : 1 of 10 resources are not ok:logging-operator-fluentd: wrong resource state: InProgress - Ready: 0/1;][VCFMS-HEALTH-002]

Vibe coding is useful for discovery, but software engineering starts when generated code has to be reviewed, owned, operated, and safely changed.