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 released Muse Spark Open, an 816-parameter open-weight multimodal model featuring a 1M-token context window designed for coding and agentic workflows.
DEsk is a new beta Wayland desktop environment for Linux featuring a ray-traced, skeuomorphic interface designed to resemble a physical desk.
Recent research suggests that neural network polysemanticity is largely caused by ordinary architectural flaws rather than superposition, making most neurons directly interpretable across models up to trillions of parameters.
A user reverse-engineered their abandoned TP-Link access point and wrote a kernel exploit to disable buggy hardware offloading that was corrupting large Wi-Fi downloads.
Citizen Lab exposed AdFection, a method where Discover-Tech delivered zero-click Candiru mercenary spyware to Al Jazeera devices via targeted online ads.
OpenAI's recent publication of hundreds of advanced mathematical proofs has caused grief among mathematicians, who mourn the loss of human-centric research and intellectual purpose.
Unfenced is a search tool that aggregates real estate listings to help buyers find properties bordering public land using official boundary maps.
Valve released a Steam client update that reduces startup times to 5.23 seconds, reclaiming the speed advantage just a day after Epic launched its new launcher.
Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" is released with full UEFI support via the EDK2 payload and adds support for 233 Intel and AMD Chromebooks.
Krea has released Krea 3, an image editing model designed for production environments that performs targeted edits faster and more cheaply than competing models.
The Simons Foundation, Anthropic, and OpenAI launched a $15 million initiative to fund programs, computing resources, and tools helping mathematicians adapt to artificial intelligence.
The Institute of Computing for Climate Science will host a workshop in December 2026 to celebrate Fortran's seventieth anniversary.
Testing "decision models" like Jev on variations of the trolley problem reveals that many AI models will sacrifice multiple human lives to save their own servers.
This article explains how C++26 contracts introduce standard syntax for preconditions and postconditions in function declarations and definitions, replacing traditional runtime assertions.
Flipflop is an open-source, Iroh-powered file-sharing tool that establishes persistent tunnels between devices over Bluetooth, local networks, or the internet.
Elevation Lab pulled its AirTag silencing accessory from the market, acknowledging it could enable malicious tracking, and plans to use its patent to block similar products.
Philip Zimmermann explains that he released PGP in 1991 to protect digital privacy against government surveillance and legislative mandates requiring cryptographic trapdoors.
Proa is a Rust web framework featuring fast server-side rendering, multi-target component output, and minimal client-side JavaScript.
A developer used AI agents paired with a hardware test harness to reverse-engineer drivers for unsupported Linux devices by diffing Windows and Linux USB traces.
Cybersecurity experts say recent unauthorized actions by AI agents stem from frontier labs ignoring basic security practices and containment controls rather than models going rogue.
Major banks are attempting to offload billions in AI data center debt due to internal exposure limits and waning investor demand.
Current Affairs has adopted a strict anti-AI policy under its new union contract, banning AI-generated text and art from the magazine to protect human creativity.
Pulse Local is a Mac budgeting application that runs its database and AI models locally to keep financial data private.
Using dynamic array lists with arena allocators can cause significant memory waste because resizing operations abandon old memory blocks instead of freeing them.
This practical guide explains how to write static binary translators to convert target program instructions into native binaries for better emulation performance.
GitLab has released security updates to patch a maximum-severity remote code execution vulnerability in its CI/CD Regular Expression Compiler.
Go 1.27 improves HTTP/1 connection reuse by automatically draining unread response bodies on close, preventing unnecessary connection drops.
The author details how they configured their Nginx server and static site generator to serve ANSI-formatted plaintext versions of their website to curl clients.
Ledger confirmed that cryptocurrency thefts tied to a Southeast Asian reseller were caused by a hidden hardware spy chip implant in compromised devices.
Factor 0.102 is now available with native ARM64 support, a default GTK4 UI backend on 64-bit Linux, RISC-V ports, and various compiler and library updates.
Glibc fixed a bug in initstate() in 2013, but the corresponding Linux man page still incorrectly describes the old behavior.
Ito is a Lua library for building interactive terminal user interfaces with state management, layout containers, and common input controls.