• NIST Internet Time Servers: Yesterday, a bunch of time servers went down due to the weather (it might still be down as of this time of posting). If your infra is time sensitive, this may be useful as a reference.
• Postfix Macros and let place: Not sure if this is a good thing to be implementing for PostFix. There is a reason why sendmail was kicked to the curb years ago.
• New eBook Download Options for Readers Coming in 2026: Finally! I will no longer by locked into Kindle to read the ebooks I buy through Amazon.
• Garage: Yet another S3 (or these days, minio) alternative you can run on your own.
• We Put an AI Vending Machine in Our Office. It Gave Away Everything: Hilarious video of AI trying to run a business. Also, Katherine Long is my heroine.
• Lab Update -Migrating to Nutanix CE and Lessons Learned: A home lab journey from VMWare to Nutanix - probably not an uncommon activity for home lab hobbists given what Broadcom is doing with VMWare.
• Final deliveries: Denmark ending postal service after 400 years: This may be the potential future for many postal systems as the cost of deliverying snail mail become costly for the amount being sent. In other news, United State Potal Service is opening up the last mile delivery network to private companies.
• Charles: It runs on your machine and is in charge of proxying traffic while allowing you to monitor it for debugging purposes. Useful for trying to figure out what requests is going to your app and back.
• Contrails: Online map showing the effect of contrails on the climate. Trains, anybody?
• Go ahead, self-host Postgres: An argument for running your database rather than using a managed service. I don't think that is a good idea for most people, but for specific use cases, it make sense.
• Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud: I am not sure if Airbus will be completely successfully, given the immense size and breadth of the Big Three hyperscalers (I am not counting Oracle anytime soon to join that list).