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I Spent a Weekend Fighting TrueNAS's eMMC Installer Bug So You Don't Have To

Three bugs, seven patches, and one dumb HTTP server trick to install TrueNAS SCALE on a Beelink ME Mini.

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May 8, 2026homelabtruenas
April 13, 2026

Anthropic's Most Dangerous Model Is Also Its Best Ad

Mythos Preview, Opus degradation, and the oldest trick in AI marketing.

aianthropic
April 1, 2026

I Built a String Editor That Writes Itself Out of Your Code (restringjs)

restringjs is an open source React library that lets non-developers edit text live on any page, then a CLI bakes those changes into your source files. The tool disappears.

reactopen-source
March 25, 2026

My Windows PC Is Basically a Console Now

Microsoft keeps shipping features nobody asked for while Linux quietly became a real option. The data says this time is different.

linuxwindows
March 21, 2026

It's Fine to Not Care About AI Yet

I use AI every day. I still think the pressure to adopt it is doing more damage than the tools are doing good.

aitech-industry
March 19, 2026

The Resume Arms Race Is Over and Nobody Won

AI resume generators vs AI resume screeners created a feedback loop where every application looks perfect and none get read.

AITech Industry
March 17, 2026

33,000 Layoffs and a Convenient Excuse

Tech companies keep blaming AI for workforce cuts. The data tells a different story.

AITech Industry
March 16, 2026

I'm Basically a Proxy to Claude Code

A junior engineer said the quiet part out loud. Here's what I think is actually going on.

AISoftware Engineering
March 14, 2026

Building a Portfolio Site That Actually Ships

Every engineer I know has abandoned at least one portfolio site. You spin up a new project, spend three hours picking fonts, and then it sits there. Here's what changed this time.

Next.jsPortfolio
March 14, 2026

1M Token Context Windows Just Went GA - Here's What Actually Changes

Anthropic dropped the surcharge on million-token context for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6. As someone building with these models daily, here's what matters and what doesn't.

AILLM
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