What Edu is reading this week (Feb 9 - 15, 2026)

Posted on Feb 15, 2026

This week’s roundup features 40 fresh links covering everything from sandboxing AI agents in Kubernetes to benchmarking LLMs in the game Balatro, along with some spicy open-source drama.

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Cloud & Kubernetes

  • Kubernetes Gateway API Guide / Archive - A complete step-by-step setup guide for the Kubernetes Gateway API.
  • Agent Sandbox - An official Kubernetes SIGs project for sandboxing AI agents.
  • AI Agent Runtimes on GKE / Video - A guide and accompanying video on building secure, scalable, and isolated AI agent runtimes on Google Kubernetes Engine.
  • Radar - A modern, local-first Kubernetes visibility tool for topology, event timelines, and service traffic.
  • Factorio in K8s - An interesting experiment on running the game Factorio inside a Kubernetes cluster.

AI, Agents & Security

  • AI Hit Piece Drama (Mastodon) / Maintainer’s Blog Post - An AI agent “contributed” a PR to matplotlib, got rejected, and then wrote and published a blog to shame the maintainer; the second link is the maintainer’s explanation of what happened.
  • Karpathy-Inspired Claude Code Guidelines - The Andrej Karpathy skills GitHub repo cataloging AI agent workflows.
  • PicoClaw - Similar to the OpenClaw AI assistant but much smaller, intended for embedded devices.
  • Peon-ping - Warcraft III Peon voice notifications (+ more!) for Claude Code, Codex, and other IDEs to stop babysitting your terminal.
  • Matchlock - A CLI tool that secures AI agent workloads with a Linux-based sandbox using ephemeral microVMs.
  • Krawl - A customizable, lightweight cloud-native web deception server and anti-crawler honeypot.
  • NVIDIA AI Blueprints - A repository of AI blueprints provided by NVIDIA.
  • Claude Code Sensation - A blog post detailing a sensational outcome achieved with just 65 lines of markdown and Claude Code.
  • pfSense MCP Server - A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server designed for pfSense.
  • MyClaw AI - A platform or service dedicated to personalized Claw AI agents.
  • OpenClaw Threat Model - An analysis of the threat model for OpenClaw using the Maestro framework.
  • NotebookLM Hack - How a NotebookLM hack successfully turned messy notes into a real project.
  • Boxlite - An open-source project by Boxlite AI.
  • kagent - A Kubernetes-native AI agent tool.
  • Telnet Falls Silent - A GreyNoise Grimoire report analyzing the decline of Telnet activity.

Linux, Systems & Networking

  • Bazzite Postmortem / Hacker News Discussion - A personal opinion piece by one of the former Bazzite developers who is no longer with the project after some drama, alongside the Hacker News discussion.
  • ArchWiki Maintainers - A blog post expressing appreciation for the incredible work of the ArchWiki maintainers.
  • openSUSE Zypper Dup - A Reddit success story of running zypper dup on an openSUSE machine left unused for almost 5 years.
  • Backblaze Drive Stats 2025 - The highly anticipated annual hard drive reliability report from Backblaze for the year 2025.
  • quBSD - An intriguing project bringing Qubes OS-like isolation to FreeBSD.
  • Backrest - A web UI and orchestrator designed to make managing Restic backups easier.
  • NanoVNA Web Client - A web-based client interface for the NanoVNA vector network analyzer.

Development, Web & Tools

  • X4Term - Pocket VT100 terminal for Xteink X4.
  • GitHub PR Settings - GitHub’s changelog detailing new repository settings for configuring Pull Request access.
  • Freedium Mirror - A mirror service used to bypass Medium paywalls and read articles freely.
  • MonoSketch - A powerful, open-source ASCII sketching and diagramming web app.
  • Check if email exists - A Rust library and CLI tool to verify if an email address actually exists.
  • Mise - The official documentation for Mise (formerly rtx), the next-generation dev tools manager.
  • DevPod - Spin up unopinionated developer environments in any infrastructure, similar to Codespaces.

Gaming, Fun & Misc

  • Supercazzola - Generate spam for web scrapers.
  • BalatroBench - A fascinating project that benchmarks LLMs by having them play the hit roguelike deck-builder Balatro.