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Author: Richard Bailey
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Screamer 2 on PC: A Dad’s Return to 1996 Arcade Racing
Revisiting Screamer 2, Graffiti Entertainment’s 1996 arcade racer. What it got right, what the Need for Speed series did better, and why the menu music still lives in… Read the guide
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KDE Plasma’s Wayland-Only Future: What It Means for Linux Users
KDE has already published the direction: Plasma 6.8 is planned to be Wayland-exclusive, with Plasma’s X11 session supported only into early 2027. Here is what that means in… Read the guide
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How to Scan Containers with Trivy in CI Without Slowing Everything Down
Use Trivy on the image you actually ship, tune the gate sensibly, and keep container scanning fast enough to stay trusted. Read the guide
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Tomb Raider on PS1: A Dad’s Return to 1996 Lara Croft
Revisiting Core Design’s 1996 Tomb Raider on PS1. The grid-based jump, the polygon hair, the wolves of Peru — and why it still matters. Read the guide
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Should You Upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Right Away?
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is the April 2026 long-term support release. Whether you should jump immediately depends on the machine, the workload and how much change you can afford… Read the guide
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How to Add Secret Scanning with Gitleaks Before Your First Leak
Use Gitleaks locally and in CI to catch hardcoded credentials before they become key-rotation and incident-response work. Read the guide
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Rise of the Triad (1994): A Dad’s PC CD-ROM Comeback
Revisiting Tom Hall’s 1994 FPS cult classic. Originally planned as Wolfenstein 3D II, sold as its own strange thing, open-sourced 20 years later. Read the guide
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FinOps for DevOps Engineers: Making Cloud Cost Part of Your Pipeline
Cloud bills have a habit of arriving like a plot twist nobody asked for. A single GPU-backed workload can burn through $10,000 a month before anyone notices. AI… Read the guide
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GNOME 50: The Linux Desktop Changes Worth Knowing
GNOME 50 shipped on March 18, 2026. The useful changes are not just polish: Files is better, remote desktop is stronger, accessibility is materially improved, and parental controls… Read the guide
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Your Move: A Practical Framework for IT Professionals
We have spent nine articles examining how AI is reshaping IT from every angle — where businesses are investing, how developer workflows have changed, what platform engineering looks… Read the guide
