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Cline in VS Code: Plan + Act for Real Engineering

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Cline is an open-source (Apache-2.0) autonomous coding agent that runs inside VS Code. It edits files, runs commands, and asks for approval at every meaningful step. The latest stable VS Code extension is v4.0.8 (2026-07-11); the parallel CLI build is at v3.0.40 (2026-07-13). Compared to Claude Code and OpenCode (which are terminal-first), Cline lives where... » read more

Aider on Linux: The Terminal-Native Coding Agent

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Aider is the OG terminal-native AI pair programmer — Apache-2.0, runs on Python, mapped your repo for context long before “agentic loops” became the marketing term, and commits its own changes to git by default. The latest release is v0.86.0 (2025-08-09); the project is in maintenance mode but still functions. This article shows the install... » read more

OpenCode on Ubuntu: A Self-Hosted Coding Agent

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OpenCode (formerly sst/opencode, now anomalyco/opencode) is a provider-agnostic, open-source terminal coding agent. It’s MIT-licensed, has provider adapters for Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Bedrock, Vertex, Groq, and any OpenAI-compatible API (Ollama, LM Studio, OpenRouter), and at v1.17.20 it ships with a polished TUI, multi-session support, and an LSP-aware edit pipeline. This article shows the install, the minimum... » read more

Claude Code on Linux: A Practical Setup Guide

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Claude Code is Anthropic’s terminal-native coding agent. It reads your project, edits files, runs commands, and handles git — all via natural language. The latest stable release as of writing is v2.1.209 (2026-07-14). This article walks through installation on Ubuntu 22.04/24.04, the recommended daily-driver workflow, and the configuration patterns that show up most often in... » read more

Hermes Desktop on Linux: The GUI for Hermes Agent

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Hermes Desktop is the Electron GUI companion to the Hermes Agent CLI. It launches the same agent/ core that runs in your terminal, just wrapped in a chat window with a sidebar, file previews, and provider settings. If you’ve already installed Hermes CLI (see the companion article), the desktop is one command. This piece covers... » read more

Hermes Agent on Linux: Install + First-Run Setup

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Hermes Agent is Nous Research’s open-source assistant that runs the same agent core across a CLI, a TUI, an Electron desktop, and ~20 messaging platforms (Telegram, Discord, Slack, Feishu, and others). It learns across sessions via memory and skills, runs scheduled jobs, delegates to subagents, and drives a real terminal and browser. This article walks... » read more

Chaos Reborn on Linux in 2026: Julian Gollop’s Wizard Duel Game Is Still Worth Playing

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title: “Chaos Reborn on Linux in 2026: Julian Gollop’s Wizard Duel Game Is Still Worth Playing” date: 2026-07-14 categories: [“linux-gaming”] tags: [“chaos-reborn”, “snapshot-games”, “linux-gaming”, “turn-based-strategy”, “indie-rpg”, “julian-gollop”, “xcom-creator”, “steam”, “native-linux”] Chaos Reborn on Linux in 2026: Julian Gollop’s Wizard Duel Game Is Still Worth Playing In 2015, Julian Gollop — the designer of the original... » read more

Run Qwen3 and MiniCPM5-1B Locally on Linux with llama.cpp (2026 Guide)

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title: “Run Qwen3 and MiniCPM5-1B Locally on Linux with llama.cpp (2026 Guide)” date: 2026-07-14 categories: [“linux-software”] tags: [“llama.cpp”, “qwen3”, “minicpm5”, “local-llm”, “ai”, “ollama”, “ubuntu”, “fedora”, “arch”, “gpu-inference”] Run Qwen3 and MiniCPM5-1B Locally on Linux with llama.cpp (2026 Guide) In 2026, running a real large language model on your own Linux machine is no longer exotic.... » read more

Megamagic: Wizards of the Neon Age on Linux — Still Worth Playing in 2026?

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title: “Megamagic: Wizards of the Neon Age on Linux — Still Worth Playing in 2026?” date: 2026-07-14 categories: [“linux-gaming”] tags: [“megamagic”, “beautifun-games”, “linux-gaming”, “indie-rpg”, “synthwave”, “steam”, “native-linux”, “unity”, “80s-aesthetic”] Megamagic: Wizards of the Neon Age on Linux — A Synthwave RPG That’s Still Worth a Look in 2026 Megamagic: Wizards of the Neon Age is... » read more

How to Install PeaZip on Linux: DEB, RPM, AppImage, and Flatpak (2026 Guide)

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title: “How to Install PeaZip on Linux (DEB / RPM / AppImage in 2026)” date: 2026-07-14 categories: [“linux-software”] tags: [“peazip”, “archive-manager”, “linux”, “appimage”, “7zip”, “ubuntu”, “fedora”, “arch”] How to Install PeaZip on Linux: DEB, RPM, AppImage, and Flatpak (2026 Guide) If you’ve ever missed 7-Zip or WinRAR on Linux, PeaZip is the closest thing to... » read more

Scaling Qdrant Past One Machine: A Cluster Walkthrough on Hetzner + Docker

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title: “Scaling Qdrant Past One Machine: A Cluster Walkthrough on Hetzner + Docker” tags: Qdrant Vector Database Docker Docker Compose Hetzner Distributed Systems RAG Cluster If you’ve been running Qdrant as a single Docker container, the day your vector count crosses a few million and your embedding dimension is anything reasonable, you’ll see two things... » read more

Otty: A Mac-Native, GPU-Accelerated Terminal Tuned for Code Agents

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title: “Otty: A Mac-Native, GPU-Accelerated Terminal Tuned for Code Agents” tags: Otty terminal emulator macOS GPU rendering Claude Code Codex OpenCode The terminal-app market in 2026 is crowded enough that launching a new one takes either a strong technical hook or a strong community. Otty, which hit Product Hunt this summer, is going for both:... » read more

OTTY: A Terminal-Centric Workspace for Developers Who Live in the Shell

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title: “OTTY: A Terminal-Centric Workspace for Developers Who Live in the Shell” tags: OTTY terminal emulator Rust developer tools Linux Most terminal emulators are still doing one job: render a shell. OTTY, an open-source project on GitHub, takes a different stance — the terminal should be the primary surface for development and operations, not just... » read more

memory

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memory DDR Memory Bandwidth DDR “DDR 266 2.1 GB/s DDR 333 2.6 GB/s DDR 400 3.2 GB/s” DDR2 533 4.2 GB/s DDR2 667 5.3 GB/s DDR2 800 6.4 GB/s” DDR3 1066 8.5 GB/s DDR3 1333 10.6 GB/s DDR3 1600 12.8 GB/s DDR3 1866 14.9 GB/s” DDR4 2133 17 GB/s DDR4 2400 19.2 GB/s DDR4 2666... » read more

022. The Modern GPU Pipeline: From Fixed-Function to Fully Programmable tags: – GPU – rendering pipeline – vertex shader – fragment shader – computer graphics

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022. Modern Graphics Cards, Part III I originally intended this section mainly to explain the difference between a fixed-function pipeline and a programmable pipeline. There are many experts on Zhihu, so I will borrow the diagrams from this answer: What advantages does a programmable rendering pipeline have over a fixed-function pipeline? What are its applications?... » read more