Weekly news | 2026-01-21

news

• Docker releases Kanvas for Compose to K8s
• Curl shutters bug bounty program to remove incentive for submitting AI slop
• FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home
• Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage
• 25 Years of Wikipedia
• 6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available
• OpenAI could reportedly run out of cash by mid-2027
• Wine 11.0
• Porsche Sold More Electrified Cars in Europe in 2025 Than Pure Gas-Powered Cars
• The assistant axis: situating and stabilizing the character of LLMs

• AWS:
  • Amazon Inspector Java Gradle support and expands ecosystem coverage
  • Bedrock API keys to streamline development in GovCloud regions
  • Billing Console Enhanced Transactions view
  • Clean Rooms parameters in PySpark analysis templates
  • Connect
    -agent scheduling metrics in data lake
    -agent screen recording status tracking
    -recurring overrides for hours of operation
  • Connect Cases now supports AWS CloudFormation
  • Databases are now available on v0 by Vercel
  • Data Exports granular operation visibility for Bedrock model usage
  • EBS up to four Elastic Volumes modifications in 24 hours
  • EC2 Memory optimized X8i instances
  • IoT Device Management Wi-Fi Simple Setup for managed integrations
  • Lambda cross-account access for DynamoDB Streams
  • Lex
    -configurable voice activity detection sensitivity
    -improved speech recognition models for English
  • Outposts
    -multiple LGW routing domains
    -S3 on Outposts is now available on second-generation
  • RDS Custom latest GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
  • RDS latest CU and GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
  • Redshift Serverless queue-based query resource management
  • SageMaker HyperPod service quotas before creating clusters on console
  • VPC IPAM policies now support RDS and Application Load Balancers
  • For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.

tooling

• ttl: Fast, modern traceroute with real-time TUI, per-hop stats, ASN/geo lookup, ECMP detection, and MPLS label parsing. A better mtr
• terraform-skill: Claude Agent Skill for Terraform and OpenTofu - testing, modules, CI/CD, and production patterns
• Meshery: extensible Kubernetes manager
• Tiny FOSS Compass and Navigation App
• 1D-Pong Game at 39C3
• Cachekit – High performance caching policies library in Rust
• JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3
• Go-legacy-winxp: Compile Golang 1.24 code for Windows XP
• OpenWork – an open-source alternative to Claude Cowork
• Gambit, an open-source agent harness for building reliable AI agents
• Claude Cowork runs Linux VM via Apple virtualization framework
• Tldraw pauses external contributions due to AI slop
• Control Claude permissions using a cloud-based decision table UI
• Lock-Picking Robot
• STFU
• Re: Mix: open-source repairable blender
• B-IR – An LLM-optimized programming language
• 1Code – Open-source Cursor-like UI for Claude Code
• psc: The ps utility, with an eBPF twist and container context
• A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish
• ChunkHound, a local-first tool for understanding large codebases
• Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city
• Streaming gigabyte medical images from S3 without downloading them
• Flux 2 Klein pure C inference
• Simple GIS on Potato
• Xenia – A monospaced font built with a custom Python engine
• Nanolang: A tiny experimental language designed to be targeted by coding LLMs
• Reticulum, a secure and anonymous mesh networking stack
• An interactive physics simulator with 1000’s of balls, in your terminal
• A creative coding library for making art with desktop windows
• Linux kernel framework for PCIe device emulation, in userspace
• The Zen of Reticulum
• Ocrbase – pdf → .md/.json document OCR and structured extraction API
• Lume 0.2 – Build and Run macOS VMs with unattended setup
• Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss
• Singularity: A free and open-source rootkit for Linux
• Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected
• Just the Browser: remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers.
• Docker.how – Docker command cheat sheet

blogs

• There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape
• Every GitHub object has two IDs
• vLLM large scale serving: DeepSeek 2.2k tok/s/h200 with wide-ep
• GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source
• Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice
• CVEs affecting the Svelte ecosystem
• Supply Chain Vuln Compromised Core AWS GitHub Repos & Threatened the AWS Console
• How I learned everything I know about programming
• Design and Implementation of Sprites
• Cloudflare acquires Astro
• Releasing rainbow tables to accelerate Net-NTLMv1 protocol deprecation
• FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence
• Elasticsearch was never a database
• Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation
• An Ode to the Return of Wysiwyg
• ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
• The recurring dream of replacing developers
• Raising money fucked me up
• The thing that brought me joy
• How do I stop participating?
• ClickHouse acquires Langfuse
• Prediction: Microsoft Is Going to Do the Funniest Thing Imaginable
• Using proxies to hide secrets from Claude Code
• Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy
• What came first: the CNAME or the A record?
• Use Social Media Mindfully
• Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)
• 3D printing my laptop ergonomic setup
• Improving the performance of WAT parser
• Why some clothes shrink in the wash and how to unshrink them
• So, you’ve hit an age gate. What now?
• Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them
• Why senior engineers let bad projects fail
• Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing
• Reducing Dependabot Noise

resources

• OSS AI agent that indexes and searches the Epstein files
• Putting the "You" in CPU (2023): An interactive visualization of how a CPU works
• HTTP RateLimit Headers
• IRISC: An ARMv7 assembly interpreter and computer architecture simulator
• Understanding ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity
• System Programming in Linux: A Hands-On Introduction "Demo" Programs
• Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations
• Building Robust Helm Charts