What Edu is reading this week (Dec 22 - 28, 2025)

Dec 28, 2025 · 400 words · 2 minute read

Here is the roundup of links for this week:

Cloud & Infrastructure 🔗

Debusine Repositories Launch / Main Page: Debian introduces Debusine, a new PPA-like system allowing developers to publish add-on packages with integrated builds and testing.
PCI Passthrough in Harvester - A guide on setting up AMD GPUs in Harvester with PCI passthrough.
Password Agents - Documentation from systemd.io regarding the implementation and use of Password Agents.

Snitch - A tool to inspect network connections in a cleaner, more visual way than standard utilities.
RustScan - The “Modern Port Scanner” — a fast and efficient port scanner written in Rust.
ezff - A “plain English” wrapper for ffmpeg, designed to make complex media conversions easier to remember.
textarea - A minimalist text editor that lives in URL.
Antigravity Workspace Template - A starter kit for the Google Antigravity IDE, optimized for Gemini 3 Agentic Workflows and “Deep Think” mode.

LTE-Cell-Scanner - An OpenCL-accelerated TDD/FDD LTE cell scanner compatible with RTL-SDR, HackRF, and BladeRF.
fm_tune - A utility to calculate rough PPM (Parts Per Million) error estimates for SDR devices using FM stations.
kalibrate-rtl - A fork of kalibrate designed specifically for use with RTL-SDR devices to calculate local oscillator frequency offsets.

Ruby 4.0.0 Released - The latest major version of the Ruby programming language has been released.
mruby - The lightweight implementation of the Ruby language, suitable for embedding.
NVIDIA Free AI Courses - A collection of 7 free courses on Generative AI promoted by NVIDIA.

Unl0kr - An on-screen keyboard for unlocking encrypted root filesystems on Linux mobile devices (postmarketOS).
Switchberry - Hardware design files for the Time Appliances Project’s Switchberry board.

Gaming Couch - A platform for playing couch co-op games instantly without downloads.
GTA Vice City in Browser - A video showing a full port of GTA Vice City running in a browser at 120fps.
Tiny Christmas - A global Christmas carol experience delivered over SSH.

Virus Málaga Story - A retrospective on the “Málaga” virus, 33 years after its creation in a university lab (Spanish).
Sound of the dialup modem - A visualization and explanation of the noises made during a dial-up modem handshake.
Toys with the highest play-time - An article discussing which toys offer the best engagement versus clean-up time ratio.