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110 articles across 6 pillars.
ZFS pool design for a 4-bay homelab: the decisions that actually matter
A practical guide to designing a ZFS pool for a 4-bay homelab in 2026. Mirror vs RAIDZ, drives, ashift, recordsize, special vdevs, and the boring ops that decide if the pool survives.
Claude Code vs Cursor: which AI coding tool wins your daily workflow in 2026
YouTube reviewers love both. Reddit users tell a more complicated story. We reconcile the two and give a clear pick per engineer profile.
Claude Code review: the agentic CLI that actually finishes the task
After six months of using Claude Code as my primary AI coding interface, here is what it does better than Cursor, where it still trips, and which jobs it should own on a senior engineer’s machine.
Cursor review: still the IDE to beat for AI-assisted coding
Cursor has fended off bigger competitors for two years. After daily use, here is what it still beats Copilot at, where Claude Code now wins, and whether $20/month is justified.
Cloudflare Workers vs Vercel Edge Functions: which edge runtime wins in 2026
Edge compute compared head-to-head: cold start, runtime, pricing, ecosystem, and the workloads each platform was built for — with clear picks per use case.
DGX Spark + Ryzen 395 — homelab AI hardware reached its inflection in April
A user posted a 16x DGX Spark cluster with 2TB unified memory. AMD shipped a 128GB Ryzen 395 mini-PC. Homelab AI hardware moved from "expensive" to "credible" this month.
GitHub stability crisis and Ghostty leaves — the platform-risk conversation gets sharper
GitHub had major reliability issues on April 28-30. Ghostty announced it's leaving GitHub the same week. The platform-risk argument that was theoretical is now operational.
MinIO archived — the open-source storage shakeout and what to use instead
MinIO archived its main repo on April 25. The selfhosted community has moved on to Garage, SeaweedFS, and RustFS. The license-vs-commercial pattern keeps repeating.
Bitwarden CLI compromise — the supply chain attack pattern hits password tooling
The Bitwarden CLI was compromised on April 23 via the Checkmarx supply-chain incident. The CLI repo had been archived in 2022, which is the actual story here.
Pillars we cover
AI Coding
Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Aider, Continue, and the rest of the AI-pair-programming ecosystem.
LLM Platforms
API providers, model comparisons, and pricing analysis across the major foundation-model platforms.
Dev Infra
Cloudflare, Vercel, Netlify, Fly.io, Railway, Render — the platforms that actually run your code.
Databases
Neon, PlanetScale, Turso, Supabase, D1, Mongo Atlas — picking the right store for the job.
Dev Productivity
Linear, Notion, Raycast, Arc, 1Password, Tailscale — tools that shape the developer day.
Storage & Homelab
OSS storage, ZFS, Proxmox, TrueNAS, Unraid, homelab networking, drive selection, backup strategy.
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