What Edu is reading this week (Sep 5 - 12, 2026)

A quieter week than the last one: open-weight audio tooling, Kubernetes checklists and Helm scanning, BSD install write-ups, a batch of homelab and SDR projects, and the Omarchy funding and vulnerability-disclosure threads.

AI, Agents & Tools

• hexgrad/Kokoro-82M - An 82M-parameter open-weight text-to-speech model, small enough to run locally and to fine-tune.
• santinic/audiblez - Generates audiobooks from EPUB e-books chapter by chapter, using Kokoro for the voices.
• DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash - The smallest model in DeepSeek’s new architecture family, with native visual understanding and faster inference.
• Scenarios for our Economic Future - Anthropic’s economics team models how AI could shape the economy of 2030.
• Claude Code for Everything - A beginner-oriented setup walkthrough: editor, working directory, terminal basics and skills, no coding required.
• ayghri/i-have-adhd - A coding-agent skill that pushes the answer to the top instead of burying it under reasoning.

Cloud, Kubernetes & Infrastructure

• kubernetes-production-best-practices - learnk8s’ checklist of the things to go over before releasing a workload to production.
• Scanning Helm Charts at Scale with helmsniff - A walkthrough of scanning chart repositories for security issues.
• basarsubasi/kampfire - A Docker-style CLI for managing Kubernetes agent sandboxes with familiar commands.
• kj187/jarvis - Self-hosted, realtime web frontend for Prometheus Alertmanager.

Linux & BSD

• Stop making swap partitions / Btrfs swapfile documentation - The case for a swapfile over a dedicated partition, with the Btrfs caveats from the docs.
• nixietab/vlcro - Makes zypper faster by running its slow operations in parallel.
• One Page, Every Package / Tumbleweed vs Leap - osdiff - openSUSE’s answer to “which version of X do I actually get?”, plus the tool that diffs source package versions between Tumbleweed and Leap.
• Omarchy’s funding and the foundation / Omarchy to drop Arch for NixOS? / Chainfire on the uncredited patches - The community discussion on DHH’s funding and governance approach, and the follow-up about privately reported vulnerabilities being patched without credit.
• NetBSD 11 from scratch - Installing NetBSD by hand instead of with sysinst, full-disk encryption included.
• AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop Reloaded - Vermaden builds a new AMD desktop on FreeBSD, and documents the part-picking pain.
• M2: Episode 1 (or, Asahi Linux on M3) - Asahi Linux progress notes on the M3.

Homelab, Networking & SDR

• MOS - A Devuan-based, modular OS for servers and homelabs: web UI for storage and shares, users, Docker, LXC, VMs and monitoring, with no telemetry.
• Homelable - Self-hosted visual canvas to map, document and monitor a homelab, now also available as a Home Assistant integration via HACS.
• gnacho/netpulse - Read-only PWA dashboard for OpenWrt and GL.iNet fleets: per-router health, devices, WireGuard peers and AdGuard Home stats.
• Please consider running a NTP server in the NTP Pool - Demand for pool capacity keeps growing; here is what running a server involves.
• Yet Another LuCI for OpenWrt - An Android app for managing OpenWrt and GL.iNet routers, with VPN and parental controls.
• GNU Radio World - Build and run GNU Radio flowgraphs in the browser, GRC-style, with hundreds of DSP blocks and RTL-SDR support.

Hardware & Gaming

• AMD BC-250 Documentation / The “$60 Gaming PC” - AMD BC-250 - Community docs for the ex-console board, plus a write-up on turning it into a cheap Linux gaming machine.
• DS5_Bridge / DS5Dongle - Two Pico 2 W projects that turn a Raspberry Pi board into a wireless DualSense dongle.
• Cosmos Update - No Man’s Sky - Space stations, galactic alliances and hull salvage to haul back from deep space.
• Play GTA Vice City in the browser - A WebAssembly port of the full game, with saves and controller support.
• danielbrendel/krepagotchi-game - A pixelated virtual pet game.

Security & Privacy

• LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off - A Gamers Nexus investigation found the sets sweeping local networks to map nearby devices and capturing microphone audio, uploaded once back online.
• Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the “allow training” setting - Users report the setting flipping back on after being switched off.

Development, Web & Misc

• Slifronic/magic-tree - An isometric 3D tree whose plot is a scannable QR code, built with React and three.js.
• What do Visa and Mastercard do? - An intro to card networks and where the money actually moves.
• It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis - The long road to a WASM proof-of-work challenge, compiler bug and RAM-starved build machine included.
• Music theory for programmers - Notes, scales and chords derived from scratch in JavaScript, with code you can hear.
• Don’t Let Anyone Take Away Your Big Box of Cables - A defence of keeping the physical spares around.
• Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg put on leave of absence - The board voted to put the WordPress co-founder on leave; he says members conspired behind his back.
• Michael Jackson’s style and Bob Fosse’s Snake - The week’s off-topic link: the Little Prince number behind the choreography.