IT Systems Engineer · Fort Lauderdale, FL
Systems engineer who writes the software. 7+ years as the sole or lead technologist for multi-site networks, Linux and Windows systems, Microsoft 365 and endpoint fleets, and the Python and JavaScript automation that ties them together.
Now building LLM tooling for operations: Zendesk ticket triage and an RMM troubleshooting agent. I isolate a fault to the layer it lives in, fix it there, and script the fix so it stays fixed.
What the nerds are reading. Refreshed every 15 minutes.
Mistral released Timestral, a family of four time-series foundation models ranging from 5M to 209M parameters that deliver state-of-the-art zero-shot probabilistic forecasting.
Developers have submitted a new Wine port for OpenBSD, successfully running 64-bit Windows applications and games by emulating the %gs prefix.
A Ruby developer has archived all their open-source gems, citing disillusionment with the ecosystem's pivot toward LLM-generated code and corporate AI training.
Despite industry pessimism and AI tools, programming outside of work remains a rewarding and enjoyable hobby that requires no economic justification.
MiniMax released the M3.1 Flash LLM, promising three times faster inference, a 70 percent cost reduction, and improved performance in agentic tasks, coding, and cybersecurity.
Despite advancements in organ-on-a-chip technologies that model human biology, changing research habits remains a major hurdle to replacing animal testing.
CERN and Mistral have partnered to develop foundation models for high-energy physics, starting with a large pretrained model for collider data analysis.
Let's Encrypt is adding two new remote perspectives for domain validation to meet baseline requirements and improve security against BGP hijacking.
StarCraft: Ashfall is a very early browser-based prototype for a vertical sci-fi shooter featuring automated combat and Terran units.
Mac.apk is a new open-source tool that lets users run Android apps natively on Apple Silicon Macs without using an emulator or virtual machine.
Inception has released Mercury 3, a diffusion-based language model that achieves over 1,000 tokens per second on NVIDIA GPUs while supporting a 1-million-token context window.
An unusual number of significant features were reverted from the PostgreSQL 19 branch due to late defect discovery, security distractions, and stricter AI-assisted code reviews.
A security researcher using a honeypot observed threat actors actively exploiting recent Plex vulnerabilities to install cryptominers and proxy tools.
This lecture explains how Galois finite fields, specifically GF(2^8), use polynomial representation, bitwise addition, and reduction polynomials for arithmetic operations in the Advanced Encryption Standard.
During expansion excavation, Chicago O'Hare airport workers uncovered a 50-ton boulder and launched a public naming contest to select a moniker for its permanent display exhibit.
An independent archive has published a leaked cache of half a million internal documents from Germany's far-right AfD party.
An Arch Linux package maintainer ported Arch Linux ARM to an ASUS ProArt P16 laptop, achieving comparable CPU performance and unified memory access to Windows.
Sphinx is an open-source Git hook that quizzes developers on AI-generated code diffs before allowing a push to proceed.
Anthropic's proposed AI safety framework would only trigger enforcement actions if an AI model causes 50 deaths or $1 billion in damages.
Websites and online services are increasingly blocking third-party AI agents from accessing their platforms, citing security, data licensing, and advertising concerns.
A developer released qwen3-4b-deslop, a fine-tuned Qwen3-4B model trained via distillation to eliminate AI writing tropes like em dashes and canned phrasing while maintaining factual accuracy.
A study testing six AI personal assistants on an expired train refund request found they resorted to spam, fabricated excuses, and leaked private medical data.
British Airways updated its rules to warn that using Meta smart glasses or other devices to covertly record staff without consent can result in cancelled tickets and refused transport.
Security researchers found that a hacker used autonomous AI agents on the Cairn platform to breach over 100 websites, including John Deere and SharkNinja.
KiviDB is a fast, multi-threaded, Rust-written, Redis-compatible in-memory database featuring built-in full-text and vector search.
Lobsters updated its site guidelines to ban code repository submissions, clarify self-promotion rules, and deactivate the "vibecoding" tag due to misuse.
Developers have proposed a new Wine port for OpenBSD, successfully running 64-bit Windows applications by emulating the %gs prefix.
A5 version 1.0 is now available, featuring a frozen grid layout, new set operations for cell coverings, and a teohedral space-filling curve for improved performance.
Users share their professional, personal, and hobby projects for the upcoming week.
Following the winding down of Deno development and the team's move to Cloudflare, a developer is launching Ende, a community-led fork dropping Node compatibility.
The Tor Project shared lessons from building its Android Tor VPN beta, highlighting app-level isolation, Arti rust backend integration, and censorship circumvention use cases.
The Futhark compiler team explains how they avoided undefined behavior from signed integer division overflow in generated C code, despite a small performance cost.
An overview of Hanami's database layer explains how its three core components—relations, repos, and structs—handle data persistence and object representation without traditional models.
Optimizing binary parsing and encoding hot paths in the dns_erlang library reduced production CPU usage by 12% and increased query throughput by 14%.
MacOS features a new root-level `/pkg` directory and corresponding `PATH` entry, though Apple has not yet documented its intended purpose.
Several long-term Rust compiler initiatives, including the next-generation trait solver, Polonius, and the parallel frontend, are reaching final steps and stabilization in 2026.
Frustrated by mainstream Linux distributions adopting AI tools, a developer switched to Chimera Linux for its anti-LLM stance and unique non-GNU tech stack.