2026 / Week 37

Many readers may have read this blog article on Native Object Storage from my good pal, Pete Koehler. In that post, which was published back in May of this year and coincided with the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) version 9.1 release, Pete talked about a tech preview of Native Object Storage. Well, with the release of VCF 9.1.1, the tech preview has now begun. Although the tech preview of Native Object Storage is not open to everybody, we will be working with a select set of customers and gathering critical feedback. Our objective is to have a robust Native Object…

Run a fleet of coding agents without losing track of branches, reviews, or CI failures. Free and open source under Apache 2.0.

implements both distributed firewall rules and gateway firewall rules for each DSM database deployed via VCF Automation

Contribute to cloudbase/OpenVixDiskLib development by creating an account on GitHub.

A fast, visual workspace for every terminal, agent, file, diff, and worktree running in Herdr.

Introducing the smallest model in our new architecture family, with native visual understanding. Designed for greater capability, faster inference, and higher throughput.

Sharded Postgres by PlanetScale. Scale real Postgres to hundreds of millions of QPS and petabytes of data with zero-downtime resharding.

We tested RTK (Rust Token Killer) with Claude Code on Fable 5.0, and OpenCode with DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 on Terminal-Bench 2.1.

Follow a SQL query through the router, across four Postgres shards, and back.

Harnesses get dismissed as just scaffolding, just prompt engineering, and not real research. But that couldn't be farther from the truth. The same model weights that score 30% on ARC-AGI score 95% with a better harness.

The other day a serious vulnerability was disclosed in one of the newer Linux distributions (the one led by the racist, so it isn't getting a mention here). The issue was interesting because it was…

VMware provides first-class developer tooling such as VCF PowerCLI for PowerShell users and the VCF SDK offering Java and Python bindings.

The ripgrep of AI context: a zero-dependency C++23 CLI + MCP server for coding agents. Find what you want without reading the repo, then check you built what you meant — blast radius, tests-to-run,...

Contribute to theo-kirby/tmax development by creating an account on GitHub.

My daily tech stack is not just a list of apps. It is a connected workflow that helps me document my HomeLab, work from the terminal, use AI with real project context, test applications locally, and safely move more complex tasks onto real infrastructure.

This is probably the question I get asked most about Spacetime. It’s a simple enough question, and it certainly seems like it should have a simple answer. Scaling is a complex topic, and the devil is…

Most of what an AI coding agent does for me isn't thinking. It's I/O.

Putting videos on YouTube is a convenient solution, but not a privacy-friendly one. Using HLS, it's possible to self-host videos while being...

Custom resource browsing, built-in Flux actions, and incident explanations. Tested pod-view startup: 1.51 seconds versus 3.72 seconds for k9s.

Fun with certificates - we've all been there, right? In this - perhaps brief - blog post, I'll explain how to automate the whole process and use Let's Encrypt. Since this post contains a lot of code, I've decided to publish it all in my public GitHub repo.

One feature in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1.1 that I am personally excited about is the new AI Assistant for VCF. It is great to see AI being integrated directly into VCF for infrastructure te…

While I am a huge fan of the recent AMD Ryzen Zen4/Zen5-based consumer platforms, including the versatile Minisforum MS-A2, it is well known at this point that these processors can exhibit slower e…

Broadcom will refresh vSphere Standard, and Proxmox adds 24/7 support. What was said, what was not, and why 128 cores is a licensing floor.

I've run Nextcloud for years and I like it, but OpenCloud caught my eye. It's the continuation of ownCloud Infinite Scale, written in Go, with no database to babysit and no schema migrations to worry about. In this guide I go over where OpenCloud came from, how it stacks up against Nextcloud, and then a full Docker Compose setup with a real domain and certificate, storage on a local disk, full text search, and browser based document editing with Euro-Office. All links and resources are down below.