We're back from Maui! We did some really cool things like whale watching and making the trek up to Nakalele Blowhole. I experienced some real firsts in my lifetime like hearing whales sing without a microphone or amplification (from the deck of a boat) and standing on a cliff, looking out on the merciless and wide open North Pacific ocean in hurricane force winds. The jet lag is very real after the red eye back to Detroit though.

ISP-provided routers, gateways, and set-top boxes face price increases due to 7x uplift in memory costs — home fiber rollouts may slow - RAM prices are skyrocketing and impacting costs of computers but I did not see this one coming. Costs are driving up expenses for ISP equipment like routers, switches, and modems. ISPs are force to pass that cost on to consumers. This is just the tip of the RAM price iceberg, in my opinion. I'm buying all my RAM used for the foreseeable future but even the secondary market prices have gone nuts. I'm wondering what other knock-on effects will we see as a result of RAM prices?

Open Letter — Invitation to Discuss the Future of the MySQL Ecosystem - A collaborative open letter inviting community members to sign and engage in dialogue about the direction and future of the MySQL database ecosystem.

Cilium Explained: eBPF-Powered Kubernetes Networking - Whitney Lee and Duffie Cooley provide a deep dive into how Cilium leverages eBPF to power networking, observability, and security in Kubernetes environments.

The hunt for truly zero-CVE container images - Chainguard's approach of rebuilding containers directly from source whenever upstream changes are detected challenges distro-reliant methods, exposing how VEX status games can mask real, unpatched CVEs in hardened images.

Cybersecurity stocks drop after Anthropic debuts Claude Code Security - Anthropic launched Claude Code Security, an AI-powered vulnerability detection tool, causing cybersecurity stocks, like CrowdStrike and Cloudflare, to take an 8% hit. This isn't the first time and won't be the last time AI tools knock stock prices down. This makes me wonder how long until entire companies are put out of business by such tools.

How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt - As autonomous agents accelerate software development, technical debt is giving way to what is being dubbed "cognitive debt" which includes, the shared understanding of how systems work and why design decisions were made.

Lost In Perplexity - Kylie Robison breaks down Perplexity's identity crisis as the AI company has gone from having a lot of early momentum to having almost completely lost sight of its core mission.

Writing AI coding agent context files is easy. Keeping them accurate isn't. - Maintaining accurate documentation has always been challenging. Now it is being intensified as AI agent files (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, etc.) drift out of sync as codebases evolve. One reader who maintains 17+ codebases stated, "The drift is constant," and that, "If the code changes, the context file is a required update in the same commit."

OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI - Peter Steinberger, developer behind OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot), has joined OpenAI, with the company stating OpenClaw will continue as an open source project.

block/goosetown - Steampunk geese run a parallel processing commune. Surprisingly effective. Apache-2.0 License

rowboatlabs/rowboat - Open-source AI coworker, with memory. Apache-2.0 License

AlexsJones/llmfit - 157 models. 30 providers. One command to find what runs on your hardware. MIT License

mitchellh/vouch - A community trust management system based on explicit vouches to participate. MIT License

sickn33/antigravity-awesome-skills - The Ultimate Collection of 800+ Agentic Skills for Claude Code/Antigravity/Cursor. MIT License

taf2/mdvi - CLI-based Markdown viewer. MIT License

Veirt/weathr - A terminal weather app with ASCII animation. GNU GPLv3 License