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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

"The biggest lesson that can be read from 70 years of AI research is that general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin." Rich Sutton Subscribe to AILinks at faun.dev/newsletter

AILinks: Quote of the week, by Rich Sutton

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

In 2016, Mayhem, a machine that had just won $2 million at DARPA's Cyber Grand Challenge, played the DEF CON Capture the Flag against 14 human teams and finished last. Subscribe to DevSecOpsLinks at faun.dev/newsletter

DevSecOpsLinks: In 2016, a machine named Mayhem played the DEF CON Capture the Flag against 14 human teams, and it finished last

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

"There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." Tim Peters, The Zen of Python Subscribe to PythonLinks at faun.dev/newsletter

PythonLinks: Quote of the week, by Tim Peters

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The kubelet can run pods with no Kubernetes cluster at all, and kubeadm uses this to start the control plane from files in /etc/kubernetes/manifests. Subscribe to KubernetesLinks at faun.dev/newsletter

KubernetesLinks: kubeadm starts the control plane of a Kubernetes cluster from four plain files in a folder

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

LangWatch runs agent tests where a simulated user holds a conversation with your AI agent, and it records every trace of your LLM app. You can find LangWatch at faun.dev/toolbox/langwatch Subscribe to AILinks at faun.dev/newsletter

LangWatch: Test your AI agent against a simulated user before real ones

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Gitleaks scans Git repositories, commits and file systems for hardcoded secrets, and as a pre-commit hook it catches them before they leave your machine. You can find Gitleaks at faun.dev/toolbox/gitleaks Subscribe to DevSecOpsLinks at faun.dev/newsletter

Gitleaks: Stop a secret before it reaches your Git remote

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Starboard is a small macOS terminal that stays next to the Dock on every desktop, and it never takes focus from the app you are working in. You can find Starboard at faun.dev/toolbox/starboard-terminal Subscribe to SoftwareEngineeringLinks at faun.dev/newsletter

Starboard: Keep a terminal beside your Mac Dock, always on screen

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

FastAPI reads the type hints of your Python functions to check every request and to write the API documentation for you. You can find FastAPI at faun.dev/toolbox/fastapi Subscribe to PythonLinks at faun.dev/newsletter

FastAPI: Build a Python API whose docs write themselves

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

agentgateway is an open source proxy written in Rust that puts many MCP servers behind one address, with rules on who may call each tool. You can find agentgateway at faun.dev/toolbox/agentgateway Subscribe to KubernetesLinks at faun.dev/newsletter

agentgateway: Put all your MCP servers behind one endpoint, with access rules

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

OpenTelemetry lets you add traces, metrics and logs to your code once, then change observability vendors without touching that code again. You can find OpenTelemetry at faun.dev/toolbox/opentelemetry Subscribe to DevOpsLinks at faun.dev/newsletter

OpenTelemetry: Instrument your code once and send the data to any backend

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

MNIST exists because the original NIST data trained models on digits written by Census Bureau employees and tested them on digits written by high-school students. Subscribe to AILinks at faun.dev/newsletter

AILinks: MNIST exists because the digit test it replaced was unfair

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

"Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships." Linus Torvalds Subscribe to SoftwareEngineeringLinks at faun.dev/newsletter

SoftwareEngineeringLinks: Quote of the week, by Linus Torvalds

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Python first ran without its GIL in 1996: Greg Stein's patch for Python 1.4 removed the lock, but programs with a single thread ran at least 30% slower. Subscribe to PythonLinks at faun.dev/newsletter

PythonLinks: Greg Stein removed the GIL from Python back in 1996

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable." Leslie Lamport Subscribe to DevOpsLinks at faun.dev/newsletter

DevOpsLinks: Quote of the week, by Leslie Lamport

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

LobeHub, formerly LobeChat, puts chats, agents, knowledge bases and documents behind one interface, and you can host it yourself with Docker. You can find LobeHub at faun.dev/toolbox/lobehub Subscribe to AILinks at faun.dev/newsletter

LobeHub: Chat with dozens of AI model providers from one workspace you host

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

TruffleHog looks for leaked API keys, tokens and private keys, and then it tests each one live to see if it still works. You can find TruffleHog at faun.dev/toolbox/trufflehog Subscribe to DevSecOpsLinks at faun.dev/newsletter

TruffleHog: Find leaked credentials and check which ones still work

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Open MCT is the open source framework NASA uses to show spacecraft telemetry in a browser, and its code has been public on GitHub since 2015. You can find Open MCT at faun.dev/toolbox/open-mct Subscribe to SoftwareEngineeringLinks at faun.dev/newsletter

Open MCT: Build your own mission control screens with NASA's code

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

pytest lets you write a test as a simple function, and when an assert fails it shows you the values on both sides. You can find pytest at faun.dev/toolbox/pytest Subscribe to PythonLinks at faun.dev/newsletter

pytest: Write a Python test as a plain function with a plain assert

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

st8ks finds the failing workloads of your Kubernetes cluster and shows you each fix as a YAML diff, so nothing changes before you have read it. You can find st8ks at faun.dev/toolbox/st8ks Subscribe to KubernetesLinks at faun.dev/newsletter

st8ks: Review every Kubernetes fix as a YAML diff before it is applied

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

gVisor answers a container's system calls from its own kernel, written in Go, so the app never talks to the host Linux kernel directly. You can find gVisor at faun.dev/toolbox/gvisor Subscribe to DevOpsLinks at faun.dev/newsletter

gVisor: Put a second kernel between your containers and the host

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself." Ken Thompson, in his Turing Award lecture, 1984. Subscribe to DevSecOpsLinks at faun.dev/newsletter

DevSecOpsLinks: Quote of the week, by Ken Thompson

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Git has not used plain SHA-1 since version 2.13: after the SHAttered collision of February 2017, it made a hardened SHA-1 that detects collision attempts its default. Subscribe to SoftwareEngineeringLinks at faun.dev/newsletter

SoftwareEngineeringLinks: The SHA-1 inside Git has not been plain SHA-1 since version 2.13

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"Kubernetes is a platform for building platforms. It's a better place to start; not the endgame." Kelsey Hightower Subscribe to KubernetesLinks at faun.dev/newsletter

KubernetesLinks: Quote of the week, by Kelsey Hightower

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The first devopsdays, held in Ghent, Belgium, in 2009, had a talk called "Introducing Kanban in operations" and another on cucumber-nagios, a way to write reusable Nagios checks. Subscribe to DevOpsLinks at faun.dev/newsletter

DevOpsLinks: Ghent, Belgium, 2009: the program of the very first devopsdays had a talk called "Introducing Kanban in operations"

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Jeff is an open decision model with 0.8 billion parameters: it does not write text, it picks one of the options you describe and gives a probability for each. You can find Jeff at faun.dev/toolbox/jeff Subscribe to AILinks at faun.dev/newsletter

Jeff: Let a small model make your yes/no decisions in milliseconds

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Trivy scans container images, file systems, Git repositories and Kubernetes clusters with a single open source tool from Aqua Security. You can find Trivy at faun.dev/toolbox/trivy Subscribe to DevSecOpsLinks at faun.dev/newsletter

Trivy: Scan images, code and clusters for flaws with one binary

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

git-sprout creates a new Git worktree that takes 36 MB on disk instead of 1,816 MB, a number the project measured on the Linux kernel. You can find git-sprout at faun.dev/toolbox/git-sprout Subscribe to SoftwareEngineeringLinks at faun.dev/newsletter

git-sprout: Add a Git worktree without copying every file again

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

mypy reads the type hints in your Python code and reports the mistakes before the code runs, and the project started back in 2012. You can find mypy at faun.dev/toolbox/mypy Subscribe to PythonLinks at faun.dev/newsletter

mypy: Find type errors in your Python code before it runs

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

flux9s shows every Flux resource of a Kubernetes cluster live in your terminal, and one key is enough to reconcile, suspend or resume it. You can find flux9s at faun.dev/toolbox/flux9s Subscribe to KubernetesLinks at faun.dev/newsletter

flux9s: Watch and reconcile every Flux resource from your terminal

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

ContractDB answers a DNS TXT query with a whole Amazon DynamoDB item, written as JSON. You can find ContractDB at faun.dev/toolbox/contractdb Subscribe to DevOpsLinks at faun.dev/newsletter

ContractDB: Read a DynamoDB table with a plain DNS query

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A KV cache saves a model from computing old tokens again. Does the next token still get more expensive as the context grows? The quiz is in this week's AILinks at faun.dev/picks

AILinks #549: You keep a KV cache so that old tokens are not computed again. Does the next token still get more expensive as the context grows?

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Your new certificate works in every browser, but curl refuses it and your Go service cannot connect. Do you know why? It is one of 15 questions on TLS certificates in production. The quiz is in this week's DevSecOpsLinks at faun.dev/picks

DevSecOpsLinks #549: Your new certificate works in every browser, but curl refuses it and your Go service cannot connect. Do you know why?

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A user books a meeting for 09:00 in Paris, four years from now. How do you store it so that it is still right on the day? This quiz has 8 questions on time in software. The quiz is in this week's SoftwareEngineeringLinks at faun.dev/picks

SoftwareEngineeringLinks #549: A user books a meeting for 09:00 in Paris, four years from now. How do you store it?

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

You set obj.__len__ to a function that returns 5, and len(obj) still raises a TypeError. Can you say why? Here are 8 questions on the Python data model. The quiz is in this week's PythonLinks at faun.dev/picks

PythonLinks #549: How well do you really know Python's data model?

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

You add a stricter NetworkPolicy next to a looser one on the same Kubernetes pod. What can still reach it? The quiz is in this week's KubernetesLinks at faun.dev/picks

KubernetesLinks #549: You add a stricter NetworkPolicy next to a looser one on the same pod. What can still reach it?

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

You mark a Terraform variable with sensitive = true. Do you know how its value is stored in the state file? The quiz is in this week's DevOpsLinks at faun.dev/picks

DevOpsLinks #549: You mark a Terraform variable with sensitive = true. Do you know how its value is stored in the state file?

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Nanobrowser is an open source Chrome extension that carries out web tasks for you with two AI agents, in the tab you already have open. You can find Nanobrowser at faun.dev/toolbox/nanobrowser Subscribe to AILinks at faun.dev/newsletter

Nanobrowser: Let two AI agents do your web tasks in your own browser

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

OpenBao is the fork of HashiCorp Vault that stayed open source, and it has no enterprise edition. You can find OpenBao at faun.dev/toolbox/openbao Subscribe to DevSecOpsLinks at faun.dev/newsletter

OpenBao: Run a secrets manager that keeps the Vault API and an open licence

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

upmd turns the code blocks of a Markdown file into named tasks with dependencies, and it can run them in 15 languages. You can find upmd at faun.dev/toolbox/upmd Subscribe to SoftwareEngineeringLinks at faun.dev/newsletter

upmd: Run the code blocks of your README as named tasks

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

uv is a Python package manager written in Rust by Astral, and its warm installs take well under a second. You can find uv at faun.dev/toolbox/uv Subscribe to PythonLinks at faun.dev/newsletter

uv: One binary to install Python, packages and virtual environments

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Cynative ships with 45 AI agents that look for security problems in your cloud accounts and Kubernetes clusters, with read-only access. You can find Cynative at faun.dev/toolbox/cynative Subscribe to KubernetesLinks at faun.dev/newsletter

Cynative: Let AI agents audit your cloud with read-only access

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

dbt Charts keeps a whole dashboard in one YAML file: its SQL queries, its charts and its layout. You can find dbt Charts at faun.dev/toolbox/dbt-charts Subscribe to DevOpsLinks at faun.dev/newsletter

dbt Charts: Write a dashboard as one YAML file, next to your dbt models

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

You asked your AI assistant for a short guide that nobody could get wrong, and this is what came back. Subscribe to AILinks at faun.dev/newsletter

AILinks: The README your AI writes when you ask for foolproof instructions

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

FreeToken serves large Mixture-of-Experts models on a single consumer NVIDIA GPU, even when the model is much larger than the card's video memory. You can find FreeToken at faun.dev/toolbox/freetoken Subscribe to AILinks at faun.dev/newsletter

FreeToken: Run a model bigger than your GPU memory on one gaming card

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

zizmor reads your GitHub Actions workflows and points at the security holes in them, with more than 40 checks. You can find zizmor at faun.dev/toolbox/zizmor Subscribe to DevSecOpsLinks at faun.dev/newsletter

zizmor: Find the security holes in your GitHub Actions workflows

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Project NOMAD puts offline Wikipedia, Khan Academy courses and regional maps on a machine you own, and one install script sets it all up. You can find Project NOMAD at faun.dev/toolbox/project-nomad Subscribe to SoftwareEngineeringLinks at faun.dev/newsletter

Project NOMAD: Keep Wikipedia, courses and maps working with no internet

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Polars is a DataFrame query engine written in Rust that plans each query before it runs and spreads the work over every CPU core. You can find Polars at faun.dev/toolbox/polars Subscribe to PythonLinks at faun.dev/newsletter

Polars: Query data bigger than your memory on one machine

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

virtio-nvgpu lets several KVM virtual machines share one NVIDIA card, with no vGPU licence and no passthrough of the whole card. You can find virtio-nvgpu at faun.dev/toolbox/virtio-nvgpu Subscribe to KubernetesLinks at faun.dev/newsletter

virtio-nvgpu: Share one NVIDIA GPU between virtual machines with no vGPU licence

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Filament copies PostgreSQL and MySQL data into a warehouse, and it checks every batch with a checksum on both sides of the write. You can find Filament at faun.dev/toolbox/filament-galaxy Subscribe to DevOpsLinks at faun.dev/newsletter

Filament: Copy your database into a warehouse and check every batch

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FAUN.dev @joinfaun.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Git 3.0 will make SHA-256 its default hash, and Scott Chacon of GitButler calls it a costly mistake: SHA-1 and SHA-256 repositories do not work together, and a converted project breaks its signatures. The rest is in this week's SoftwareEngineeringLinks at faun.dev/picks

SoftwareEngineeringLinks #549: Git 3.0 will make SHA-256 its default hash, and Scott Chacon of GitButler calls it a costly mistake

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