Tools

• Good news, Gnome 49 was released a few days ago! The release notes contains of some yummy stuff and even a section for developers. Also thanks to the RN, I discovered Boxes, a Gnome "VirtualBox" and played with it. Pretty cool software.

• WinBoat: another virtualization software this time aimed at running Windows on your Linux box. Install was not that hard but Windows 11 felt sluggish afterwards. Pity.

• LazySSH: manage servers directly from the terminal.

• Simon Willinson talks about the release of Copilot CLI.

• Dysk and duf, two better-looking alternatives to the venerable du.

• spec-kit: a toolkit from Github itself "to help you get started with Spec-Driven Development". I had to read it twice to believe it. But OK I'm curious now, I will try once.

Opinions and articles

• From 1.2GB to 54MB: My Docker Image Went on a Diet.

• Introducing Space Grade Linux.

• Gemini doesn't care what you want (and I like it).

• Good post-mortem about the last npm attack.

• The babysitter problem:

Claude’s failure wasn’t incompetence, it was architecturally incurious. Debugging isn’t just about trying fixes; it’s about knowing when your whole approach is wrong. That step-back moment is still uniquely human.

• No shit, Sherlock: Sam Altman says that bots are making social media feel ‘fake’.

• “Your” vs “My” in user interfaces, interesting read.

• A nice website when art meets web technologies: field.io.