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Software Engineering · 23 Sept 2026 · 13 min read

Just say nono.

nono gets pitched at coding agents, so most people meet it as a CLI. The SDKs are often overlooked: they let any application that spawns code it doesn't trust apply a kernel-enforced capability sandbox to itself or a child. The integration shapes, what each costs, and when nono is the wrong tool.

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Open Source · 20 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Relay: An Open-Source Control Plane for DBOS Applications

DBOS Transact delivers lightweight durable execution, but upstream coordination relies on a proprietary control plane. Relay is a clean-room, open-source Conductor alternative with multi-SDK wire compatibility, dual-engine storage scaling from embedded SQLite to clustered PostgreSQL, and zero cloud lock-in.

Report · 19 Sept 2026 23 min

Jev, examined.

TypeSafe's decision model answers in under half a second for a fraction of a cent. Whether its confidence numbers can be trusted to run unattended is the part nobody has settled.

Agents · 13 Sept 2026 · 3 min

Lemonade models in OpenCode

A plugin that asks the Lemonade server what it can actually run and wires it into OpenCode at startup: no hand-written model lists, no guessing at context windows, no vision models that silently can't see.

Open Source · 12 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Reads like AI.

"It reads like AI" has become open source's way of losing an argument without having one. A request to maintainers: judge the comment, not your guess about who typed it.

Linux · 11 Sept 2026 · 10 min

coprctl: a friendlier command line for Fedora Copr

A command line and agent interface for the Fedora Copr build service, and what a full build, fix and debug cycle looks like with it.

Agents · 10 Sept 2026 · 6 min

Sleep on it

Your agent is an amnesiac. "Dreaming" is the nightly housekeeping that fixes it. Anthropic named it in May; the pattern has been running on my machine, under a less poetic name, since February.