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Rapid Dashboarding with Self-Hosted AI Systems

Rapid Dashboarding with Self-Hosted AI Systems

The fine folks from McKinsey have open-sourced an AI-enabled dashboarding workflow. In my opinion, it's useful for businesses and strategically valuable to generate insights. It's called Vizro. Rapid dashboarding alternatives like Claude in Excel require 1. more work and prompting (attention to detail) 2. you need
Borgmatic / Bash CI / git-crypt and key management

Borgmatic / Bash CI / git-crypt and key management

Borgmatic Backups for security“Backups are important for information security. Underestimated, often forgotten, but key to resilience and compliance alike.” - every sane tech expert Data is more valuable than ever. And hard disks are just consumables. In the old days (early 2010s), I had setups with Bacula Backup. It
Cloudflare, Akamai / history and perspective

Cloudflare, Akamai / history and perspective

Yesterday we let down the internet. Sorry... (Cloudflare, every 4-5 months) Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.The Cloudflare