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5 articles
· 1 min read
From October 2026 Node.js ships one major a year instead of two, ends the odd/even split, and matches version numbers to the calendar. Node 26 is the last old-model release.
#nodejs#releases#lts
· 3 min read
2.8 trillion total parameters, 104 billion active per token, a million-token context window, and terms written by the lab. The license is the story.
#open-weights#licensing#models
· 1 min read
An editorial on how the kernel actually decided the Rust question, and why big technical arguments end administratively, not rhetorically.
#rust#linux#engineering-culture
· 1 min read
Torvalds confirmed the version jump in February; rc5 landed late March. The number is cosmetic. The language decision underneath it is not.
#linux#rust#kernel#releases
· 1 min read
Best-effort maintenance ends this month, then the archive. The replacement has been ready for years, which is exactly why nobody moved.
#kubernetes#ingress#open-source#deprecation
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