Site Reliability Engineering - SRE

Some things I found interesting from 2026-04-26 to 2026-05-03

03 May 2026

Internet Discoveries between 26 April and 3 May

• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Quantum
• A quote from Bryan Cantrill
• Fast16: The Cyberweapon That Predates Stuxnet by Five Years - HackingPassion.com : root@HackingPassion.com-[~]
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Set
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Kickstarter Launch!
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Spoon
• Show HN: My retired dad and I made a daily, somewhat difficult, quiz
• PS5 Linux loader goes public, turning console into full Linux gaming PC
• GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown
• Before GitHub
• Ghostty is leaving GitHub
• An update on GitHub availability
• EvanFlow – A TDD driven feedback loop for Claude Code
• Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics
• Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy
• Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Meaning
• Caedmon’s Hymn Discovery - News & Events - Trinity College Dublin
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Tragic
• On April 21, 2026, a major breakthrough in cybersecurity happened: leading standardization initiatives gathered in Washington DC and agreed to begin coordinating collectively on AI security. A… - Rob van der Veer - 28 comments
• Ask.com has closed
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Nagel
• GitHub - DOS-History/Paterson-Listings: Transcription of Tim Paterson’s DOS printouts. · GitHub
• Copy Fail — CVE-2026-31431
• NetHack 5.0.0: Release Notes
• Adding the applications secrets to it’s repository · GitHub
• Do_not_track
• VS Code inserting ‘Co-Authored-by Copilot’ into commits regardless of usage
• www.abc.net.au

Some things I found interesting from 2026-03-29 to 2026-04-05

05 Apr 2026

Internet Discoveries between 29 March and 5 April

• Idealized Design, Systems Thinking, and a Model for OutlierInnovation, by Dr. Russell Ackoff - YouTube
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Water
• FBI confirms hack of Director Patel’s personal email inbox
• Iran-linked hackers deliver ultimatum to Lockheed Martin staff – Australian Aviation
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Humanities
• GitHub - gsd-build/get-shit-done: A light-weight and powerful meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven development system for Claude Code by TÂCHES. · GitHub
• GitHub - gsd-build/gsd-2: A powerful meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven development system that enables agents to work for long periods of time autonomously without losing track of the big picture · GitHub
• Claude Code’s Entire Source Code Was Just Leaked via npm Source Maps — Here’s What’s Inside - DEV Community
• axios@1.14.1 and axios@0.30.4 are compromised · Issue #10604 · axios/axios · GitHub
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Up
• ccleaks — Claude Code Hidden Features
• GitHub - awslabs/mcp: Official MCP Servers for AWS · GitHub
• 4D Doom
• Claude Code’s source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry
• The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode
• The curious case of retro demo scene graphics
• Copilot edited an ad into my PR
• I Quit. The Clankers Won
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Loot
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Special
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bad
• Artemis II crew take ‘spectacular’ image of Earth
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Super
• Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai — Amazon reportedly declares “hard down” status for multiple zones - Tom’s Hardware

Some things I found interesting from 2026-02-22 to 2026-03-01

01 Mar 2026

Internet Discoveries between 22 February and 1 March

• 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
• Open-Source Community Launches MinIO Fork
• Using the new bridges of FreeBSD 15
• I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard
• Freemediaheckyeah
• The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone’s data protection
• Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware
• Claude Code Remote Control
• The Om Programming Language
• Making MCP cheaper via CLI
• Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer
• The RomM Project
• Show HN: Deff – Side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal
• Museum of Plugs and Sockets
• The Hunt for Dark Breakfast
• NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays
• Rob Grant, creator of Red Dwarf, has died
• Reading English from 1000 AD
• Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
• Leaving Google has actively improved my life
• Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died
• Hyprland 0.54 Released As A "Massive" Update To This Wayland Compositor - Phoronix
• Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
• Verified Spec-Driven Development (VSDD)
• Show HN: Context Mode – 315 KB of MCP output becomes 5.4 KB in Claude Code
• MCP server that reduces Claude Code context consumption by 98%

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

22 Feb 2026

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

Some things I found interesting from 2026-01-25 to 2026-02-01

01 Feb 2026

Internet Discoveries between 25 January and 1 February

• Honest Trailers - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
• GitHub - affaan-m/everything-claude-code: Complete Claude Code configuration collection - agents, skills, hooks, commands, rules, MCPs. Battle-tested configs from an Anthropic hackathon winner.
• 430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found
• Honest Trailers - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
• Render Mermaid diagrams as SVGs or ASCII art
• We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles (2002)
• Positive Affirmations for Site Reliability Engineers
• An Illustrated Guide to Hippo Castration (2014)
• Ozzy Man Reviews: Bad Design
• Mermaid ASCII: Render Mermaid diagrams in your terminal
• PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible
• GitHub - moltbot/moltbot: Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞
• Users flock to open source Moltbot for always-on AI, despite major risks - Ars Technica
• arxiv.org
• The Memory Paradox: Why Our Brains Need Knowledge in an Age of AI by Barbara Oakley, Michael Johnston, Kenzen Chen, Eulho Jung, Terrence Sejnowski :: SSRN
• OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again
• Rallycross Battle: Team Toyota vs. Mazda Diecast Racing
• Grid.Space for Education - STEM Learning Tools
• HTTP Cats
• Formae Documentation

Incidents and status

31 Jan 2026

I’ve decided to take a leaf out of my professional life and apply that to some of my homelab life (because it is life!).

So here I am doing some public incident management of stuff that should have little to any affect on people outside my home.

This is made up of a couple of pieces:

1. Recording my incidents with rigor
2. Advertising the public facing things

To do option 1, I cheated. I used to Claude Code to grab a bunch of information, even perform a bunch of actions, collate it all together, process it with some rules and create a markdown file with the analysis.

To do option 2, I cheated. I used Claude Code to take the status from my home Nagios monitoring system, pick out some important hosts and services and display that status on a public website.

Some things I found interesting from 2025-10-26 to 2025-11-02

02 Nov 2025

Internet Discoveries between 26 October and 2 November

• Info - Sailfish OS
• Kitchen Soap – The Infinite Hows (or, the Dangers Of The Five Whys)
• STPA (System Theoretic Process Analysis) – Teaching a new way to prevent outages at Google
• medium.com
• Fnox, a secret manager that pairs well with mise
• 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea
• MCP-Scanner – Scan MCP Servers for vulnerabilities
• Downloadable movie posters from the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s
• D2: Diagram Scripting Language
• A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool
• Show HN: Diagram as code tool with draggable customizations
• WebDAV isn’t dead yet

Some things I found interesting from 2025-10-26 to 2025-11-02

02 Nov 2025

Internet Discoveries between 26 October and 2 November

• Info - Sailfish OS
• Kitchen Soap – The Infinite Hows (or, the Dangers Of The Five Whys)
• STPA (System Theoretic Process Analysis) – Teaching a new way to prevent outages at Google
• medium.com
• Fnox, a secret manager that pairs well with mise
• 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea
• MCP-Scanner – Scan MCP Servers for vulnerabilities
• Downloadable movie posters from the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s
• D2: Diagram Scripting Language
• A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool
• Show HN: Diagram as code tool with draggable customizations
• WebDAV isn’t dead yet