Here is the roundup of links for this week:
Cloud & Infrastructure 🔗
- Kubernetes v1.35 Release - The official announcement for the latest version of Kubernetes.
- Docker Hardened Images / Catalog: Docker has made its catalog of hardened container images free to use, designed to secure the software supply chain.
- Why you can’t ping a Kubernetes Service - A technical explanation of why standard ICMP pings don’t work with K8s ClusterIP services.
- OVHCloud Kubernetes - A guide or discussion regarding Kubernetes baremetal clusters on OVHCloud.
- Hive - An open source, AWS-compatible platform (EC2, VPC, S3, and EBS-like services).
DevOps & Tools 🔗
- GitHub Actions Pricing Saga / Postponed: GitHub announced a new pricing model for Actions (including charges for self-hosted control planes), but subsequent reports indicate the price increase for self-hosted runners has been postponed.
- Scanopy - Previously known as NetVisor, this is a tool for network visualization.
- Charles Proxy - An HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet.
- Buildbot - An open-source continuous integration framework based on Python.
- Atomic / Atomic (video): Atomic: Automated Procedures and Memory for AI Coding Agents (Davide Rutigliano shared this directly to me to post it here, thanks! :D)
- QJP - “Quick JSON Picker” - an interactive command-line menu for filtering and selecting JSON objects.
Security 🔗
- First Linux Rust CVE - A significant milestone: the first CVE assigned to Rust code within the Linux kernel, though it reportedly only causes a crash.
- North Korean Infiltrator at Amazon - An IT worker was caught due to a consistent 110ms keystroke lag, revealing their true location.
- My server started mining Monero - A personal account of discovering a server compromise and unauthorized crypto mining.
- Jack.bio License Plate - A post about acquiring a rare license plate using TypeScript.
Linux & Hardware 🔗
- ZFS status on NetBSD - A message from the NetBSD users mailing list explaining the current status of ZFS on NetBSD.
- DIY Ambilight Guide / LG webOS Setup / Kernel Drivers: A collection of resources for building a DIY ambient light system, specifically targeting LG webOS TVs.
General & Misc 🔗
- Google Labs’ Disco - Google’s experimental AI web browser.
- PingFS - “True cloud storage” - a filesystem where data is stored in ICMP ping packets travelling to remote servers and back.
- Noclip - An incredible digital museum allowing you to fly through level maps from various video games.
- What is an Elliptic Curve? - A mathematical explanation of the curves used in modern cryptography.
- The Original Mozilla Dinosaur - Jamie Zawinski shares artwork of the original Mozilla logo.
- Ralph Wiggum as a “software engineer” - “Ralph Wiggum”’s loop for AI-driven development.
- NTP at NIST Boulder has lost power - NTP at NIST Boulder has lost power (aka, some of the .nist.gov NTP servers were down).
- Realtime code, handmade ascii animations and raw tracker music - The demo ’CMOS Cosmos’ by Razor 1911 in 2025.