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.
DeepSeek-AI has released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, an updated multimodal model featuring improved reasoning, coding, and visual benchmark performance along with reduced task execution times.
OpenCode suffered a security breach affecting 1.4 percent of its console users following a large-scale distillation attack.
According to the 2026 World Nuclear Industry Status Report, global monthly solar power generation surpassed nuclear output for the first time in 2025.
Llmspeed is a web tool that lets users estimate and compare local large language model performance across various consumer and enterprise hardware configurations.
An experimenter partially replicates a published protocol for making biological tissue transparent by soaking raw chicken breast in a tartrazine food dye solution.
Surging gold shipments have surpassed traditional categories to become the top U.S. export by value, driven largely by foreign demand and global reserve shifts.
Pele is a lightweight library that renders Mermaid diagrams into themeable SVG elements using CSS variables.
Linus Torvalds released the Linux 7.2 kernel after one of the busiest development cycles in history, featuring over 16,000 commits from 2,652 developers.
The developer of the sailing game Around The World details rendering improvements for clouds, including a custom Monte Carlo ray tracer and normal tweaks for better lighting.
Estonia publishes the source code of its IVXV online voting system on GitHub for public review and transparency.
Antirez has released a pin-level Commodore 64 hardware simulator that models the motherboard, chips, and netlist to let users test faults and physical damage.
Esp32sim is an open-source Rust-based emulator that runs unmodified ESP32 firmware locally and in the browser via WebAssembly without requiring physical hardware.
The author recounts the extensive documentation and bureaucratic process involved in successfully obtaining Japanese citizenship after starting the application in 2012.
A veteran systems administrator evaluates Kubernetes for the first time, focusing on core concepts like control loops and service networking abstractions.
The birth and christening of Prince Edward in 1537 were celebrated with great splendor at Hampton Court Palace despite the ongoing threat of plague.
An archive website catalogs thousands of vintage sealed compact cassettes produced between 1963 and 2010 across global markets.
Internal documents reveal Amazon uses an in-house AI tool called Atlas to monitor social media and internal feedback, predicting unionization risks in UK warehouses.
DeepSeek released V4.1 Flash 1017, a sparse mixture-of-experts model built on its Causal Encoder-Decoder architecture with native image understanding and compressed KV caching.
Lingua Franca is an open-source, reactor-oriented coordination language that enables deterministic, multi-threaded, and distributed programming across multiple host languages without manual synchronization.
After nine years, the author successfully modchipped an Xbox 360 using cheap microcontrollers like the Raspberry Pi Pico to perform fault injection attacks.
The Go team introduced interactive refactoring in gopls v0.24.0, using a proposed LSP standard to support multi-step dialogs for operations like struct tags and interface implementation.
After four years of development and pivoting from an IPFS implementation to a QUIC and BLAKE3-based toolkit, the team has released Iroh 1.0.
A guest post on Terence Tao's blog satirizes the automated generation of massive volumes of unreadable scientific and mathematical papers by AI systems.
Researchers discovered a critical Linux networking vulnerability (CVE-2026-99999) caused by deferred checksum validation, enabling host-memory disclosure and full guest-to-host KVM escape.
A newly published online manifesto argues that artificial intelligence is an oppressive tool of capitalism that must be completely abolished to achieve human liberation.
This tutorial explains how to use POSIX command-line tools and ImageMagick to convert the text of Moby Dick into an animated 88x31 pixel GIF.
The author shares challenges encountered while writing unit tests for ActivityPub, including handling scattered specifications, message validation, and HTTP signature verification.