Open source
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- Building
I prepared my Q3 tax pack on a £6-a-month server
I prepared my Q3 tax pack with Actual Budget and Invoice Ninja, self-hosted on a £6.05-a-month VPS, and my agents did the reconciling.
- Agents & Tooling
Space to be human
A week of new school routines and a storm and flood, and what I needed was space to be human.
- Security & Risk
Hugging Bay builds a BitTorrent backup for open AI models as Nvidia buys Hugging Face
A volunteer-built BitTorrent index for open AI models went online in July, weeks before Nvidia's $12.93 billion Hugging Face deal.
- Agents & Tooling
Why I left the Mac for Omarchy after 25 years
After 25 years with Macs, I moved my daily work to Omarchy. The switch showed me why openness and control matter more to me now.
- Agents & Tooling
How developers organise and maintain agent skills
An Ask HN discussion describes skills as repeatable workflows, with shared repositories, human review, behavioural tests and updates across coding tools.
- Agents & Tooling
Handing off the 60%
Planning is 40% of a task; execution is the 60% that eats your week. Plus vibe sourcing — finding the open-source tool instead of generating one.
- Agents & Tooling
What a Climbing Harness Tells You About AI Agents
The word "harness" has been used in AI tooling for months without a clear definition. Earendil finally gives one.
- Security & Risk
GCC Drew the AI Line at Fifteen Lines
The GCC steering committee will decline any legally significant contribution containing LLM-generated code — and put a number on 'significant'.
- Security & Risk
The open-source argument I'd been missing
In June I wrote about Banco Santander open-sourcing its AI tooling — the bank published the code that tests whether its own models discriminate against people. I gave the usual…
- Agents & Tooling
Open Knowledge Format
This week Google Cloud released the Open Knowledge Format. It’s plain markdown files with a short labelled header — a few fields like type, tags and a link (they call it YAML…
- Agents & Tooling
Anthropic Built MCP, Got Everyone to Use It, Then Gave It Away
MCP just moved from Anthropic's project to shared industry infrastructure — and that changes the risk calculation for anyone building on it.
- Security & Risk
DeepSeek Didn't Just Train Better—They Changed How Transformers Think
The mHC architecture isn't about scaling harder. It's about thinking smarter.
- Working with AI
💾 The Download #010: Photorealistic images in MidJourney, creative AI predictions for the next 5 years, AI tool of the week and more.
I don't know about you, but I'm feeling globally fatigued since the start of this week. Despite all that, I spent some time testing out multi-cam video techniques for some YouTube…
- Security & Risk
💾 The Download #006: Content ownership, BlueSky, critical thinking, voice cloning and more.
#006 I hope this newsletter finds you, Reader, and that it finds you well. This week has flown by, though I managed to spend some time working on the porch with my 18-year-old…
