Some things I found interesting from 2026-02-15 to 2026-02-22

Internet Discoveries between 15 and 22 February

IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption
Descent, ported to the web
Zvec: A lightweight, fast, in-process vector database
A practical guide to observing the night sky for real skies and real equipment
Oat – Ultra-lightweight, semantic, zero-dependency HTML UI component library
NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed
LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop
Show HN: VOOG – Moog-style polyphonic synthesizer in Python with tkinter GUI
Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: ‘We’d stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh’ - The Comics Journal
Your Desk Needs an ESP32 DataDisplay Terminal - Hackster.io
ACCC Says Fine to Coles for Misleading Consumers Should Be Reduced From $150 Million to Just $200 Million — The Shovel
Ghidra by NSA
Use protocols, not services
Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway
GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple
Claude Sonnet 4.6
15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram
Native FreeBSD Kerberos/LDAP with FreeIPA/IDM
DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation
My 1981 adventure game is now a multimedia extravaganza
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward
AI is not a coworker, it’s an exoskeleton
CERN rebuilt the original browser from 1989 (2019)
OpenScan
Turn Dependabot Off
Keep Android Open
I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs
How far back in time can you understand English?
I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here’s what I handed over
EDuke32 – Duke Nukem 3D (Open-Source)
A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P
How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution
Scientists discover recent tectonic activity on the moon
The SRE Report 2026
Back to FreeBSD: Part 1

Interesting details

IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption - Gen Z jobs aren’t dead yet: $240 billion tech giant IBM says it’s rewriting entry-level jobs—and tripling down on its hiring of young talent.

Descent, ported to the web -

Zvec: A lightweight, fast, in-process vector database - A lightweight, lightning-fast, in-process vector database - alibaba/zvec

A practical guide to observing the night sky for real skies and real equipment - A practical stargazing guide with curated observing targets, planning help, and tools for binoculars, telescopes, and astrophotography.

Oat – Ultra-lightweight, semantic, zero-dependency HTML UI component library -

NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed -

LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop - A 6502 based laptop design. Contribute to TechPaula/LT6502 development by creating an account on GitHub.

Show HN: VOOG – Moog-style polyphonic synthesizer in Python with tkinter GUI - VOOG — Virtual Analog Synthesizer (Moog-style polyphonic synth with GUI) - gpasquero/voog

Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: ‘We’d stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh’ - The Comics Journal - Jason Bergman talks with the creators of the very popular (and very NSFW) webcomic.

Your Desk Needs an ESP32 DataDisplay Terminal - Hackster.io - Turn your desk into a command center with this 3D-printed ESP32 terminal that displays the weather, time, date, and more.

ACCC Says Fine to Coles for Misleading Consumers Should Be Reduced From $150 Million to Just $200 Million — The Shovel - “Misleading consumers by briefly increasing prices, then reducing them in order to promote them as a saving? Was $150 million, now just $200 million!!"

Ghidra by NSA - Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework - NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra

Use protocols, not services - The Internet is almost anonymous and privacy-preserving by design. I mean, unless some administrator actively tries to track you, there is no built-in…

Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway - AsteroidOS is an open-source operating system for smartwatches.

GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple - 🇬🇧->🇵🇱 Przejdź do polskiej wersji tego wpisu / Go to polish version of this post

Claude Sonnet 4.6 - Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a full upgrade of the model’s skills across coding, computer use, long-reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design.

15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram - How Microsoft continvoucly morged my Git branching diagram.

Native FreeBSD Kerberos/LDAP with FreeIPA/IDM - I want to make this clear in the first sentence because its biggest chance that people will read it - this article is entirely based on work done by Christian Hofstede-Kuhn (Larvitz) that wrote Integrating FreeBSD 15 with FreeIPA: Native Kerberos and LDAP Authentication recently. Credit goes to him. Besides that I like to share…

DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation - When you request a certificate from Let’s Encrypt, our servers validate that you control the hostnames in that certificate using ACME challenges. For subscribers who need wildcard certificates or who prefer not to expose infrastructure to the public Internet, the DNS-01 challenge type has long been the only choice. DNS-01 works well. It is widely supported and battle-tested, but it comes with operational costs: DNS propagation delays, recurring DNS updates at renewal time, and automation that often requires distributing DNS credentials throughout your infrastructure.

My 1981 adventure game is now a multimedia extravaganza - Over the last few weeks, I created a computer game set in the Arctic. Or maybe I’ve been working on it since 1981. It all depends on how you count.

All I know for sure is that I programmed the original version of Arctic Adventure in Radio Shack TRS-80 Level II BASIC when I was in high school. (It

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward - Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

AI is not a coworker, it’s an exoskeleton - Companies that treat AI as an autonomous agent are disappointed. Those that treat it as an exoskeleton—an amplifier of human capability—are seeing transformative results. Here’s the framework.

CERN rebuilt the original browser from 1989 (2019) - 2019 rebuilding of the original NeXT web browser

OpenScan - Scan Gallery

Turn Dependabot Off - I recommend turning Dependabot off and replacing it with a pair of scheduled GitHub Actions, one running govulncheck, and the other running CI against the latest version of your dependencies.

Keep Android Open - This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 20 Feb 2026, Week 8 F-Droid core During out talks with F-Droid users at FOSDEM26 we were baffled to learn most w…

I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs - How to delete all merged git branches locally with a single command. This one-liner has been in my zshrc since 2017 — I found it buried in the CIA’s Vault7 l…

How far back in time can you understand English? - I made it back to the 1400’s ok. Further than that needed more focus and attention than I had available at the time.

I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here’s what I handed over -

EDuke32 – Duke Nukem 3D (Open-Source) -

A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P - On February 3, 2026, the I2P anonymity network was flooded with 700,000 hostile nodes in what became one of the most devastating Sybil attacks an anonymity network has ever experienced. The network normally operates with 15,000 to 20,000 active devices. The attackers overwhelmed it by a factor

How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution - The research-plan-implement workflow I use to build software with Claude Code, and why I never let it write code until I’ve approved a written plan.

Scientists discover recent tectonic activity on the moon - Scientists have produced the first global map and analysis of small mare ridges (SMRs) on the moon, a characteristic geological feature of tectonic activity. Published in The Planetary Science Journal Dec. 24, 2025, the analysis performed by scientists at the National Air and Space Museum’s Center for Earth and Planetary Studies and colleagues reveals for the first time that SMRs are geologically young and are widespread across the lunar maria—the vast, dark plains on the moon’s surface. The team’s discovery of how SMRs form introduces a new set of potential moonquake sources that could affect future site selections for lunar landings.

The SRE Report 2026 - Reliability among uncertainty.

Systems fail in ways we do not expect. Yet we still predict. Practices evolve faster than documentation. Yet we still write. We think about what’s next. Yet we respond to right now.

And while so much other research most certainly arrives with word-stuffed pages, as if more words mean more learning, we chose the uncertain opposite. That is, the strength of this report comes from its quiet simplicity, its restraint, and its lack of distraction. Each insight was written not to impress, but to simply present.

After eight years of tracing reliability’s arc, the view feels complete enough to pause and look back before seeing how far the boundaries have widened. Reliability is no longer only about sustaining uptime (was it ever?). It has moved from reliability to resilience, from uptime to experience, from toil to intelligence, from tools to strategy, and from systems to people.

There are still no certainties, but there is progress. And that remains enough reason to keep building.

Back to FreeBSD: Part 1 -

All this was saved to my Link Ace and YouTube Interesting playlist over the week