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Featured|February 16, 2026

Specs Are the New Source Code: How AI Is Inverting the Software Development Lifecycle

For decades, specifications served code. They were the scaffolding we built and then quietly abandoned once the real work of coding began. That relationship is now being inverted. And the implications for how we build software, and who leads that process, are profound.

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Feb 16, 2026·7 min read

Specs Are the New Source Code: How AI Is Inverting the Software Development Lifecycle

Jan 27, 2026·6 min read

Clawdbot: Running Your Own AI Agent on Debian

We're entering an era where personal AI infrastructure becomes as fundamental as personal computing was in the 1980s. Clawdbot is an open-source AI assistant that runs entirely on your own infrastructure, connecting to messaging platforms you already use while maintaining persistent memory and the ability to execute real actions on your behalf.

Feb 2, 2025·6 min read

DeepSeek-R1, at the cusp of an open revolution

DeepSeek R1, the new entrant to the Large Language Model wars has created quite a splash over the last few weeks. Its entrance into a space dominated by the Big Corps, while pursuing asymmetric and novel strategies has been a refreshing eye-opener.

Jul 13, 2024·2 min read

Windows of Opportunity: Microsoft's Open Source Renaissance

Twenty years ago, it was easy to dislike Microsoft. It was the quintessential evil MegaCorp that was quick to squash competition, often ruthlessly, but in some cases slowly through a more insidious process of embracing, extending, and exterminating anything that got in the way.

Mar 14, 2023·1 min read

US-11604662-B2

I'm happy to announce, that after a long wait, patent US-11604662-B2 has been issued. I want to thank and recognize my co-inventors, Div Prakash and Subin George, who I'm privileged to be on paper with.

Jan 8, 2023·3 min read

Parallelizing and running distributed builds with distcc

Parallelizing the compilation of a large codebase is a breeze with distcc, which allows you to spread the load across multiple nodes and speed up the compilation time.

Nov 5, 2022·18 min read

Getting started with Linkerd

If you've done anything in the Kubernetes space in recent years, you've most likely come across the words Service Mesh. It's backed by a set of mature technologies that provides cross-cutting networking, security, infrastructure capabilities to be used by workloads running in Kubernetes in a manner that is transparent to the actual workload.

Oct 2, 2021·3 min read

On blood-lines, forks and survivors

UNIX has a colorful history that goes back many decades and the stories of how certain aspects of the operating system evolved or came to be, usually at the hands of one luminary or the other over a weekend, is now well documented in the lore of this sub-culture.

Aug 17, 2020·1 min read

Debian is 27

Today, Debian celebrates its 27th birthday. It is now one of the oldest and most widespread Linux distributions with many offshoots and derivatives while continuing to deliver rock solid stable releases in its own measured pace.

Mar 9, 2020·4 min read

Building a tiny Linux kernel

Today we will go over the process of building a tiny Linux kernel, and booting into a shell. To start with, fetch the Linux source tree that you'd like to try this out on.

Feb 20, 2020·2 min read

Compiling the Linux Kernel with Clang

I decided to give Clang a spin to compile the kernel, and given that I'm not exactly an early adopter in attempting this, it was pretty smooth and straightforward overall. All it took was make CC=clang HOSTCC=clang -j12.

Sep 27, 2019·6 min read

Linux on the Desktop: a cautionary tale of distributions, GPUs and encrypted filesystems

In the last 24 hours, I have been experimenting with this interestingly named and absolutely gorgeous Linux distribution called Pop!_OS by System76. An Ubuntu derivative, it features an extremely polished user experience and I was taken aback by its aesthetic and charming simplicity, which led me to some comparisons, quite unfairly with Debian.

Technology strategy for AI-powered products

Specs Are the New Source Code: How AI Is Inverting the Software Development Lifecycle

Specs Are the New Source Code: How AI Is Inverting the Software Development Lifecycle

Clawdbot: Running Your Own AI Agent on Debian

DeepSeek-R1, at the cusp of an open revolution

Windows of Opportunity: Microsoft's Open Source Renaissance

US-11604662-B2

Parallelizing and running distributed builds with distcc

Getting started with Linkerd

On blood-lines, forks and survivors

Debian is 27

Building a tiny Linux kernel

Compiling the Linux Kernel with Clang

Linux on the Desktop: a cautionary tale of distributions, GPUs and encrypted filesystems

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