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libfetch is a GNU/Linux port of the FreeBSD userland utility similar to Wget. I created it because I really didn’t like how heavy Wget is, and I didn’t have the knowledge to write it from scratch so I decided to port it. It’s pretty lightweight compared to Wget. But let’s dive into installing it on NixOS if you’re interested in doing it.

Tools and recommendations get updated over time, services change hands, get acquired, get audited (or stop publishing audits), so check the date above and don’t treat this as gospel six months from now.

The HTTP/2 Bomb dropped this week. CVE-2026-49975 chains two decade-old attack techniques into something nastier than the sum of its parts. An AI coding assistant helped find it. Your server is probably vulnerable right now.

Colorado almost forced age verification on your Linux laptop. That actually happened.

Wine 11 shipped in January 2026 with NTSYNC support—a kernel-level rewrite of how Wine handles Windows thread synchronization. The performance gains are real and measurable: