Archive
Author: Richard Bailey
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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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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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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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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
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Is Your Windows Dev Environment a Mess? Here’s How to Fix It
If you’re still opening cmd.exe to run commands, still downloading .exe installers from websites, and still getting mysterious line-ending errors — your Windows dev environment needs work. Not… Read the guide
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A Practical DevSecOps Rollout with GitHub Actions
A tested 30-day DevSecOps rollout for GitHub Actions: secrets, SAST, container and Kubernetes checks, with sensible release gates. Read the guide
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Lemmings on Amiga in 2026: Oh No!
I replayed the 1991 Amiga classic with my two boys. Here is how its puzzles, controls and two-player mode hold up 35 years later. Read the guide
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Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Security Changes That Actually Matter
Canonical’s April 10, 2026 security update for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS outlined the changes that really matter: memory-safe replacements, post-quantum-aware SSH, lower-privilege identity services and tougher defaults. Read the guide
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The AI-Augmented IT Team: What 2027 Looks Like
AI & IT in 2026 — Full Series TL;DR New to this series? Start with Article 1: Where Businesses Are Actually Investing for the full context on how… Read the guide
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Chocks Away on Acorn Archimedes: Does It Still Fly?
I revisited the 1990 Acorn Archimedes flight game, including its simultaneous split-screen mode and the best legal way to play it now. Read the guide