2026 / Week 34

DFlash 2 is the successor to our widely deployed parallel drafter: close to 3× the speed of autoregressive decoding, with the same output. Drafters for Qwen3.8-27B and Meta's Muse Glimmer are out today.

One self-contained binary. Tree-sitter syntax, language servers, git, search, vim mode, extensions.

For vSphere administrators and automation engineers, ESXCLI is one of the most fundamental utilities in the VMware management toolkit. It enables you to execute host management commands remotely against an ESXi host or target any host managed by vCenter Server—all from your local workstation or administrative jumpbox without requiring an interactive SSH session to the … Continued

Hosting Git repositories at scale is a nightmare. When Linus Torvalds designed the first version ofthe information manager from hell(that's actually the tagline for Git,look it up), he had a very spec

Unbound Dashboard In Grafana With Prometheus & Loki - ar51an/unbound-dashboard

A remote desktop for your terminal. Contribute to mishushakov/desktui development by creating an account on GitHub.

A full interactive remote desktop delivered entirely through SSH and displayed directly in your terminal. - rylena/sshdesk

This is a full tour of my homelab which runs KTZ Systems and most of my digital life. I walk through the network, Proxmox and Ceph cluster, storage servers, cameras, core services and local AI hardware. It may not be the neatest rack on YouTube, but it is real, reliable and built to do a job.

ProxMate is an open-source, self-hosted Proxmox VE management portal. Spin up tenant VMs, manage users, and control your homelab mini-cloud — all from a single, beautiful UI.

Claude goes above and beyond what is asked and guesses what you might want. Codex does what you tell it and stops at the first sign that it might be done. Ten impressions from a week of using Codex more.

Friday’s big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba’s Qwen research lab. I’ve been looking forward to this one: 27B is an …

The manifestation of my imposter syndrome, for me and today, is what does it mean to be a software engineer. There’s a lot more noise than signal on the Internet about agentic engineering, wh…

An update on the August 17 outage and the steps we're taking to improve reliability.

This article is an Orchestrator implementation of William Lam’s DataSets Community PowerShell module listed and presented in his blog here. TL;DR Download this vRO package from box.com to get…

Similar to Configuring vSphere Supervisor to use VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Identity Broker (IDB) for external identity federation, Harbor also supports OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity providers …

We run NSX with Avi Load Balancer, and every so often the Avi Controller manages to lock the NSX admin account. Usually it is credential drift somewhere. The Controller keeps…

Following the deployment of VMware Cloud Foundation, it is crucial to configure SFTP backup locations for VCF management services, SDDC Manager, and vCenter. Regular backups safeguard against data …

Firecracker needs KVM and therefore a Linux host, and the image tooling around it needs loop mounts and Linux userland. We rebuilt the stack on Apple's Virtualization.framework to boot the same OCI images as microVMs on macOS and on Linux.

A short summary of how reasoning traces work.

I try not to give a lot of prescriptive advice about working in tech companies. There are many ways to be successful, and every company works differently. If…

Zellij inside Zellij is now a first-class experience, images render inside panes with the Kitty graphics protocol, the interface gets a redesign, the web client goes mobile and more...