What Edu is reading this week (Dec 1 - 7, 2025)

Dec 7, 2025 · 650 words · 4 minute read

Here is the list of links for this week:

Cloud & Infrastructure 🔗

AWS re:Invent 2025 - Keynote with Dr. Werner Vogels - The annual keynote from Amazon’s CTO, covering the latest in cloud technology and the “Renaissance Developer”.
MinIO is now maintenance mode - Discussion on Reddit regarding the change in development status for the popular object storage server.
FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE Announcement - The latest stable release of the FreeBSD operating system.
NixOS 25.11 released - The newest release of the reproducible Linux distribution, codenamed “Xantusia”.
Sylve - A unified system management platform for FreeBSD (similar to Proxmox) using Bhyve and Jails.
Advent of Sysadmin 2025 - A series of daily Linux and DevOps troubleshooting challenges for December.
Uncloud GitHub / Uncloud.run: A lightweight tool for deploying and managing containerised applications across a network of Docker hosts (k8s alternative).

Stargz Snapshotter - A fast container image distribution plugin for containerd with lazy pulling capabilities.
YamlQL - A tool to query YAML files using SQL-like syntax.
Gitmal - A static page generator that creates browsable HTML documentation for Git repositories.
SpiderFoot - An open source intelligence (OSINT) automation tool for threat intelligence and attack surface mapping.
Let’s Encrypt: From 90 to 45 days - Announcement that Let’s Encrypt will decrease certificate validity lifetimes to 45 days by 2028.
SLUM - The Shadow Library Uptime Monitor.
Tunnl.gg - A simple, SSH-based tunneling service that lets you expose local ports to the internet without installing a client.

Building the PERFECT Linux PC with Linus Torvalds - Linus Tech Tips collaborates with the creator of Linux to build his new workstation.
Jolla Phone Pre-order - Pre-order page for the new Jolla Phone running Sailfish OS.
Valve Interview on ARM & SteamOS / Valve’s Android on Linux (Lepton): The Verge interviews Pierre-Loup Griffais about the future of SteamOS and ARM, while GamingOnLinux reports on ‘Lepton’, Valve’s new Waydroid-based Android compatibility layer.
Memory Price Trends - PCPartPicker trends showing the recent surge in DRAM prices.
Hacking on the reMarkable 2 - A blog post detailing how to gain root access and hack the e-ink tablet.
Tinytron - A DIY mini TV project using an ESP32.
Why do my headphones buzz when i run my game? - A debugging story about GPU rendering causing audio interference.
CachyOS Discussion - Hacker News thread discussing the CachyOS Linux distribution.

Learning OVN and BGP with Claude AI - A post about using AI to learn Open Virtual Network and Border Gateway Protocol.
Kea DHCP - A modern, open-source DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 server from ISC.
Go embed package - Documentation for the Go embed package, which provides access to files embedded in the running program.
How the comma ok idiom and package system work in Go - A FreeCodeCamp tutorial on key Go concepts.
Playwright - Fast and reliable end-to-end testing for modern web apps.

Helldivers 2 install size slashed / Hacker News Discussion: Developers reduced the game size from 154GB to 23GB by removing HDD optimizations.
Metal Gear: Ghost Babel Review - A retrospective on the Game Boy Color Metal Gear title.
Free Games Claimer - A script to automatically claim free games on Epic, Amazon Prime, and GOG.
Indreams - A highlighted creation from the Dreams game companion site.
Getting Started with Go on Nintendo 64 - A guide on homebrew N64 development using the Go programming language.

IndyCar vs Formula 1 cars - A technical comparison between the two major open-wheel racing series.
Don’t Click Here - A manifesto on why “click here” links are bad for accessibility and UX.
CastSponsorSkip - A tool to skip YouTube sponsorships on local Google Cast devices.
Boing - A web-based physics simulation project.
I recreated the old MS-DOS defrag screen - A mesmerizing recreation of the classic utility screen shared on r/BeAmazed.