2026 / Week 36

a new version 9.1.1 of VMware Data Services Manager, a release that is chock-full of new features and enhancements

VMware Explore 2026 Session URLs. Contribute to lamw/vmware-explore-2026-session-urls development by creating an account on GitHub.

The full Omarchy Linux desktop, running in a window on your Windows PC. No partitions, no bootloader, no dual boot. Uninstalling is deleting one folder.

When VCF Management Services (VCFMS) was introduced in VCF 9.1.0, its virtual machine sizing was optimized to accommodate the largest optional Day-N service. This reduced the likelihood of requirin…

Python 3.15a7, which is now just a uv python install 3.15 away on all major platforms, has lazy imports! This exciting feature, proposed in PEP 810, promises to make CLI applications faster (especially when using flags like --help), and could make a lot of large code with lots of imports that don’t always get used faster too. Unlike the earlier, failed attempt, this requires libraries to put in some work. I’ve developed a helper tool to make it easy; I’d like to cover what lazy imports are and how to use my tool. Since this is the first library that I used AI heavily in developing, the second half of the post will cover how my experience with AI for a task like this went.
TL;DR: run uvx flake8-lazy --apply=list to make your code magically faster on Python 3.15!

This has been an exciting week as VMware Explore 2026 takes place in Las Vegas, where I have been meeting with customers and partners while delivering several technical breakout sessions and worksh…

There’s a moment when the question stops being “what’s new?” and becomes “what does this version let me do next?” VMware Cloud Director 10.6.2 is that moment.  We’re excited to announce that VMware Cloud Director 10.6.2 is now generally available. If we had to sum up this release in one sentence, it’s all about getting … Continued

Embed Tailscale with tsnet, create isolated tailnets via API, and automate sharing and admin workflows.

Learn how MetalSoft and VMware Cloud Foundation will deliver simpler and smarter infrastructure operations.

A new linkblog at signals.vninja.net for everything I bookmark but never write a full post about, heavily inspired by Tsugliani's Campfire.

Mission control for your AI coding agents. Run, watch, resume, and orchestrate Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, opencode and more from one terminal, with a live view of every agent.

How a push for simpler setup and a first-class browser experience grew into OpenClaw 2.0.

SRL-TUI is a demo app demonstrating the power to extend Nokia's SR Linux.

Tailcat connects clients and servers using Tailscale’s WireGuard®, NAT traversal, and DERP data plane, with no Tailscale control plane or accounts.

Model the agentic harness like a game engine and most of its hard problems — durable state, tools, configuration, the TUI, inference — collapse into ones other people already solved.

Last Updated September 3, 2026

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