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Tools we use daily: setups, tricks and battle-tested automations.
The Grafana stack combines three open source projects: Loki for logs, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics. All three keep data in object storage (S3/GCS) with a minimal index instead of indexing everything like Elasticsearch, which cuts cost sharply at high volume and lets you correlate metric, log, and trace from a single Grafana panel.
nerdctl is a Docker-compatible CLI that talks directly to containerd, the standard Kubernetes runtime since dockershim was removed in 2022. It adds rootless support by default, encrypted images with ocicrypt, lazy-pulling, and native CNI. It fits best where containerd already runs, though Docker Engine still wins on advanced Compose and Swarm.
Stable Diffusion XL marks a leap in open-licence image generation quality. What changes versus SD 1.5/2.1, the hardware requirements, and when to pick SDXL over Midjourney or DALL-E 3 for your workflow.
ChatGPT plugins let the model invoke external services through an OpenAPI specification. Three months after launch, the ecosystem has around 500 plugins with a clear pattern: they work well for live data lookup and internal API exposure, but show friction in multi-plugin orchestration and real-money transactions.
Cómo Figma pasó de ser una herramienta de diseño a convertirse en el lenguaje común entre diseño, producto e ingeniería.
Cerebras-GPT is a family of 7 open-source language models, ranging from 111 million to 13 billion parameters, trained by Cerebras Systems on its CS-2 processors with the standard GPT-3 architecture. Released on Hugging Face and GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license, they suit fine-tuning, research, and local inference, though they understand only English.
Qdrant is the pick when full control and performance in self-hosted setups matter most; Pinecone wins for fully managed SaaS with zero operations; Weaviate stands out when native embeddings and hybrid search built into one pipeline add real value. This comparison covers architecture, quantisation, filtering, and RAG use cases to help you decide based on budget and control needs.
Microsoft PC Manager is a free, official Microsoft tool that brings temporary-file cleanup, Windows startup management, one-click access to Windows Defender, and a visual disk-usage map into a single panel. It runs on Windows 10 and Windows 11, but it does not replace a full antivirus or dedicated data-recovery tools.
GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant from GitHub and OpenAI that suggests code in real time inside the editor, trained on billions of lines of public code. It speeds up repetitive tasks such as tests, boilerplate, and documentation, but its suggestions always need human review before reaching production.
RustDesk is an open-source remote desktop tool released under the AGPL-3.0 licence, with more than 113,000 stars on GitHub. It offers end-to-end encryption, clients for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android, and the option to run your own signalling server with Docker instead of relying on RustDesk's public infrastructure.
