The Tech Compass: Navigating AI's Waves, Securing Our Foundations, and Optimizing Every Byte Welcome to your latest dose of cutting-edge insights! As we hurtle further into 2026, the technology landscape continues its breathtaking transformation. This week's trending talks offer a fascinating snapshot of where we are and where we're headed. From the pervasive, sometimes perilous, influence of Ar
A common problem with a familiar shape: a process can dial outbound to the internet, but nothing on the internet can dial it back. Your dev server on a laptop. A service in a private VPC. A homelab app behind your router. A container in a pod with no ingress. Same shape every time — outbound works, inbound doesn't. rift is a small Go binary I built to solve that. Run it as a server on a VPS you ow
Making yogurt at home isn't hard. You can control the sugar, the fat, add any flavour you want. Free from the tyranny of Big Yogurt! Yet somehow, Danone is still doing fine. Same goes for home-brewed beer, homemade bread, 3D printing. All great hobbies. All more accessible than ever. None have actually disrupted their industries. Better tools raise the floor and the ceiling. The hobbyist gets bett
We're all learning how to ship more side projects. If you're "in the bubble" it can feel like everyone is repo-maxxing. Shipping weekly. Spinning up agents to scaffold full apps overnight. New OSS dropped every Friday. The reality I see with most developers is much more normal: They have six or seven repos sitting in various states of half-attention. A side project from last year that still gets a
LibreFang 2026.4.27 Released LibreFang v2026.4.27 ships the changes below. See the full changelog for the complete list. TUI setup wizard now offers microsoft, zai, zai_coding, volcengine, volcengine_coding, byteplus, byteplus_coding alongside the existing first-run options. The wizard's PROVIDERS list had drifted from PROVIDER_REGISTRY and silently hid these from new installs; a unit test now p
Originally published at Perl Weekly 771 Hi there, I put the 'Testing in Perl' course on hold for now. Instead of that we are going to explore the use of some of the mocking libraries we saw during the course. In the next session we'll pick one of the Perl modules used for mocking and we'll look for modules that use it. We'll try to understand how it is being used and we'll try to contribute someth
Building CLMA: A Self-Verifying Multi-Agent Framework from Scratch Posted on May 4, 2026 · #LLM #MultiAgent #CodeGeneration #OpenSource #SystemDesign #WebUI #SSE All code is open source on GitHub: github.com/kriely/CLMA If you've spent any time using AI for coding, you've experienced this cycle: ask → get code → try to run → it fails → paste error → get fix → something else breaks → lather, rins
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