What Edu is reading this week (Jan 19 - 25, 2026)

Jan 25, 2026 · 461 words · 3 minute read

Here is the roundup of links for this week:

Cloud & Infrastructure 🔗

Exe.dev - A service to spin up instant, publicly accessible virtual machines with persistent disks.
Zarf - An open-source tool for declarative software delivery into air-gapped and constrained environments.
K3s + Sysbox - A guide on using the Sysbox container runtime with K3s.
Cloud Native RAG - A walkthrough on building a fully self-hosted Cloud Native RAG stack with embeddings and vectors.
Traefik Middleware Manager v4.1.2 - Now works independent with Traefik and pangolin with native mTLS support per resource.
Ansible OpenWRT Framework - A framework for managing OpenWRT devices at scale using Ansible.
Rockstor - An advanced, open-source NAS operating system built on openSUSE and Btrfs.

Vibe Server Ops - A step-by-step guide to installing Claude Code (or any LLM) on a cheap cloud server. Manage domains, deploy apps, and automate everything—all from your phone (or couch).
Agent Skills & Hallucinations - Security research revealing how AI agent skills are spreading hallucinated and potentially dangerous npx commands.
Raindrop MCP - A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Raindrop.io, allowing AI agents to interface with your bookmarks.
Superpowers - An agentic skills framework and software development methodology designed for coding agents.
Clawd.bot - A “personal AI assistant” that integrates with various apps to perform tasks.
Claude Code Tools - A set of tools including a tmux CLI to help automate terminal interactions for Claude Code.
DevChain - An open-source platform for orchestrating AI coding agents.
Devenv AI Agents - A collection of specialized AI agents composed using devenv.sh.
ClaudePad / X post showing a demo - Giving Claude a home on an old ThinkPad.
Ollama x OpenCode - A fix/bridge for tool calling issues between Ollama and OpenCode.
Claude Code Tips - A collection of tips and best practices for using Claude Code.
Ollama on AMD APU - A fork/guide for running Ollama on Linux with AMD APUs.

Lume - A lightweight CLI and local API server for creating and managing macOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon.
Just The Browser - An initiative to strip unnecessary features (AI, crypto, etc.) from browsers to return them to being “just browsers”.
UAPI Extension Image - The UAPI Group’s specification for Extension Images (Sysexts).
Qubesome - A tool to manage Linux desktop configurations and workloads as containers, defined in Git.
eBPF Party - An interactive learning platform for eBPF.
ThinkPad BIOS on FreeBSD - A guide on updating the BIOS and boot logo on a ThinkPad P14s running FreeBSD.
Remote Disk Unlock - A blog post on how to remotely unlock an encrypted hard disk.
go-away - A self-hosted abuse detection and rule enforcement tool against bots and scrapers.