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Tech Scroll 135: PeaBrain is learning, and the MCP that kept it honest in pure ASM

Little strokes fell great oaks. PeaBrain started as a 614-byte assembly webserver and became a persistent-memory MCP server with a trainable neural network. The less expected story is the infrastructure that carried the work between sessions.The problem with agent memory The problem is familiar to anyone who

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Bonding and WAN uplinks on Saphira Linux with Open vSwitch

Combining two uplinks into one resilient path is a solved problem in theory and a fragile one in practice. The classic recipe (Linux bonding driver, a bridge, a VPN on top) works until the day you enslave the wrong NIC, lose the management path, and drive to the site. Saphira

Tech Scroll 134: Checking a 1,000x-faster tokenizer, then rebuilding it in C

"Do not praise the mill for the speed of its stones. Praise it when its weights are true, for fast flour mixed with chaff feeds no one."

Tech Scroll 133: OWASP When the Public Record Did Not Match the Explanation

Our opinion counts for squat. The public record is what matters. A review of the public evidence surrounding the temporary takeover of api-security.owasp.org on 21 September 2026. A gate stood open in the city wall. The keeper said, “The road has failed.” Yet the road was sound.

Saphira Linux: a musl distribution built from source

AKADATA has built Saphira Linux, a musl-libc Linux distribution compiled from source through a stage0 SDK cross-compile, then stages 0 to 4 and a final image. It ships in two flavours: Saphira with OpenRC, and SaphiraD with systemd. The project site is https://saphira.vm2.uk, with packages

SHAMPOO is Shared Human-Agent-Model Platform for Orchestration & Operations

AKADATA has launched SHAMPOO, the Shared Human-Agent-Model Platform for Orchestration & Operations, at https://shampoo.op2.uk. In plain language: persistent memory and orchestration for people, agents and models. The problem it solves Work agreed in one session evaporates in the next. People and agents end up repeatedly

OpenCode Go, DeepSeek V4 Flash, and the moment Codex became optional

Tech Scroll 132 — The Birthday Tool

Tech Scroll 131 — Guarding Against Accidental Reboots

There are moments in technical work where a single command carries more weight than it appears.

PiStorm64, aSCSI and IPv6: letting an Amiga boot from anywhere

This article is a story about refusing to accept that “everyone uses Emu68, so you should too” is the end of the discussion. Emu68 is excellent and widely loved. However, not everyone is everyone. Some of us want Linux on the Pi, a kernel driver, ZFS on a different box, and SCSI packets wandering...

Hidden Gates: Securing WordPress Login Paths

Tech Scroll 129 There was once a steward of a great library. The front gate was always open, and thieves came nightly. So the steward built a new entrance hidden within the walls, only those with purpose could enter.