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Generosity Is a Default Setting
#weekendchallenge#linux#networking#python

Generosity Is a Default Setting

A USB tethering diagnostic that costs no cellular data to run, forty measurements across fourteen phones, and one free setting that took the worst run from 15 to 106 Mbps.

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Streamline Publishing with a Claude Code Skill
#claudecode#writing#devtools#ai

Streamline Publishing with a Claude Code Skill

A Claude Code skill that turns one markdown file into dev.to, AWS Builder Center, Medium and LinkedIn versions, checks them before they ship, and posts the ones with an API — plus the debugging tools for when a destination mangles something.

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Streamline Publishing with a Claude Code Skill
#claudecode#writing#devtools#ai

Streamline Publishing with a Claude Code Skill

A Claude Code skill that turns one markdown file into dev.to, AWS Builder Center, Medium and LinkedIn versions, checks them before they ship, and posts the ones with an API — plus the debugging tools for when a destination mangles something.

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Mix and Match: One Agent, Three Clouds, One Protocol
#a2a#aiagents#aws#azure

Mix and Match: One Agent, Three Clouds, One Protocol

The same research agent built three times — Google ADK on Cloud Run, Strands on Bedrock AgentCore, Agent Framework on Container Apps — all speaking A2A v1.0. Where the platforms differ, where the models differ, and what has to be held constant before either is readable.

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Mix and Match: Serving an ADK Agent to AWS and Azure
#googlecloud#gemini#a2a#aiagents

Mix and Match: Serving an ADK Agent to AWS and Azure

A Google ADK agent on Cloud Run, serving A2A to clients that are not ADK — a Strands agent on Bedrock AgentCore and an Agent Framework agent on Container Apps. The card that advertises your bind address, the reply that arrives twice, the event stream once a tool exists, and what Cloud Run brings to the mesh.

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Serving Gemma4 with Rust on vLLM 🦀
#rust#vllm#aws#cuda

Serving Gemma4 with Rust on vLLM 🦀

Step-by-step: getting vLLM's Rust frontend built and running on an aarch64 EC2 G5g box. rustup, setuptools-rust, protoc, the release flag, and how to prove the Rust frontend is actually the one answering.

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