🚀 Welcome to this week’s Friday Readings!
A quick collection of must‑reads, tool announcements, and tech highlights that caught my eye recently.
🛠️ Tools & Projects
- Dockhand - A modern, local-first approach to container workflows, aiming to reduce Docker Compose sprawl and cognitive load.
- Rekindle - A distraction-free reading environment for long-form content. A quiet rebellion against algorithmic feeds.
- multiOTP - A mature open-source OTP/MFA solution with solid fundamentals and zero marketing fluff.
- PegaProx - Proxy-centric experimentation around traffic control and interception, useful for labs and protocol analysis.
- Oh My OpenCode - A curated collection of OpenCode / AI tooling, scripts, and experiments worth exploring.
📚 Articles & Essays
- A GDPR Failure - A real-world post-mortem showing how compliance fails when process, ownership, and reality diverge.
- 21 Lessons Learned - Career-scale reflections on engineering, leverage, and long-term thinking, distilled without guru theatrics.
- Terraform vs Terragrunt - A balanced comparison focused on trade-offs, not ideology. Especially useful for growing infra teams.
- 12 On-Call Dashboards That Calm Everyone Down - Observability through a human lens: fewer surprises, clearer signals, lower stress.
🔐 Security & Research
- Notepad Hijacking by Lotus Blossom - A reminder that “boring” binaries remain valuable targets, and persistence often hides in plain sight.
- arXiv: 2601.19062 - Fresh research touching AI systems and reasoning. Dense, but rewarding if you enjoy first-principles thinking.
🎮 Culture & Light Reading
- What Book You Should Read Based on Your Favorite Game - A playful crossover between games and literature, surprisingly decent for inspiration.
Thanks for reading!
That’s all.