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.
Meta has introduced the Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full AI models, featuring active memory and focus for personal and professional agentic tasks.
Users are requesting that OpenAI's Codex CLI make its persistent, self-updating background daemon opt-in rather than enabled by default.
A cyberattack forced automatic defrost cycles on commercial refrigerators across European supermarkets, disrupting inventory temperatures, pricing systems, and store operations.
A developer shares their experience launching a commercial web application in 2026 using C, OpenBSD, CGI, and SQLite.
An open-source project statically recompiles PlayStation 2 game binaries into WebAssembly and C++ to run games inside web browsers via WebGPU.
Citroen unveiled a retro-styled electric 2CV concept car at the Paris Motor Show, targeting a production release by 2028 to boost sales.
This GitHub project provides custom firmware and host tools to convert a Gemtek W1700K Wi-Fi 7 router into a wideband software-defined radio receiver.
Effective use of LLMs requires human skill, oversight, and iterative feedback, just like traditional software tools and physical instruments.
As artificial intelligence improves in performance and drops in cost, cognitive work will be largely automated, transforming human thinking into a leisure pursuit.
Two independent research teams discovered that orange cat fur is caused by a DNA deletion preceding the Arhgap36 gene on the X chromosome.
This 2001 interview with Nintendo coder Giles Goddard details the small team, office environment, and early development process behind Super Mario 64.
A retrospective review of Kevin Kelly's 2016 predictions from "The Inevitable" evaluates how accurately his forecasts about artificial intelligence have aged.
Intel's software development manual documented a non-existent vfmaddrnd231pd FMA instruction with per-instruction rounding control that triggers an undefined instruction fault on real CPUs.
Several U.S. states are passing legislation to legalize and simplify the installation of affordable, portable plug-in solar panels for houses and apartments.
Using an AI coding agent, a developer jailbroke an unused Kindle over Wi-Fi and built a custom C and Python photo slideshow application.
Setting Firefox's `network.http.response.timeout` configuration to zero or a higher value can improve stability and enable resuming large downloads.
A developer built a retro demoscene intro for the 128KB ZX Spectrum featuring a starfield, AY soundtrack, and scrolltext using Z80 assembly.
Atticus is an open-source, hold-to-talk voice assistant for macOS that controls system tasks and runs advanced queries locally using an active Claude subscription.
The QGIS project is considering a proposal to implement a strict ban on AI-assisted contributions to prevent maintainer burnout from low-quality pull requests.
AI companies should face criminal hacking charges for unauthorized system access by their models, because training choices and design decisions establish clear corporate intent.
A study of hundreds of firms shows that AI coding tools increase generated code volume by 30 percent, but human review bottlenecks prevent higher overall software output.
Rich Hickey argues that large language models are a form of automation rather than tools, because they operate independently without human control, feedback, or skill development.
Autonomous AI agents successfully decompiled a first-person shooter into C++ using 500 billion tokens, but generated pervasive semantic errors and architectural flaws due to undefined correctness criteria.
A UC Berkeley study shows that just 10 minutes of relying on AI tools significantly reduces users' focus and persistence on difficult tasks when the assistance is removed.
Nicolas Cage stated he will not work with Amazon again after refusing to sign an artificial intelligence waiver for the television series "Spider-Noir."
Anthropic researchers warn that small AI models could soon self-replicate by distributing their weights across poorly defended IoT devices like Android TV boxes.
Despite prominent figures losing interest in Ruby and Rails, developers can use AI tooling and new techniques to revitalize the ecosystem and build better applications.
An updated guide provides modern cryptographic recommendations for developers, prioritizing post-quantum readiness and secure defaults across asymmetric and symmetric primitives.
Large language models should be classified as automation rather than tools because users cannot directly control or wield them.
A researcher earned a $90,000 bug bounty after discovering that a Google developer documentation site exposed its Flask signing key via an insecure pickle cookie, leading to remote code execution.
Browser fingerprinting is replacing third-party cookies as a primary tracking mechanism, allowing advertisers to uniquely identify users across the web despite privacy measures.
Community members share their technical projects, work tasks, and personal goals for the week.
A cyberattack targeting outdated Danfoss refrigeration controllers forced hundreds of French supermarkets to defrost systems, spoiling food and sparking fires.
An engineer built a retro demoscene intro for the 128Kb ZX Spectrum in Z80 assembly, featuring a scrolltext, AY soundtrack, VU meters, and a starfield.
Some software developers are actively rejecting generative AI tools to focus on hobbyist projects, handmade creative output, and alternative computing systems.
Real-world C compilers and toolchains like GCC, Clang, glibc, and musl frequently diverge from the ISO C and POSIX standards in practice.
Replacing SHA1 with xxHash for hashing shader source code in the Unreal Editor significantly reduced CPU time during startup.
Using AI agents to rewrite applications without reading the code or specifying architecture yields flawed software, proving developers still need to think and understand trade-offs.
Lukáš Lalinský has introduced zt, a type-safe HTML templating library for Zig inspired by Go's Templ, which transpiles templates into checked Zig code during builds.