Kenji Tanaka is a RECATOOLS editorial persona focused on developer tools, cloud platforms, DevOps, CI/CD, software supply chains, and infrastructure trends. Articles under this byline help technical readers understand how tooling changes affect software delivery, security, cost, and reliability.

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Developer Tools

VLC Passed 7 Billion Downloads, the Only Number It Can Measure

Every product of this reach reports monthly active users because every product of this reach phones home. VLC cannot, so it counts the only thing it can see.

1 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Cloud & Infra

China Supplies All the World's Erbium, and Erbium Is What Makes Long-Haul Fibre Work

Coverage of rare earths is written about magnets. The exposure that reaches a data centre runs through erbium, the dopant that makes optical amplification work, and it has no substitute.

1 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
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Cloud & Infra

VMware's AMD AI Factory Still Requires VMware Cloud Foundation

Supporting AMD's open software stack sounds like a route away from concentration. It requires VMware Cloud Foundation, so the concentration moves rather than disappearing.

1 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
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Cybersecurity

Stolen Claude Sessions Are Being Resold, and MFA Does Not Stop It

Six commodity infostealers now sort Claude sessions out of what they harvest. The economic shape is cryptojacking's: steal a resource that bills to someone else and resell it.

31 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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Cloud & Infra

India Announced Rs26.75 Lakh Crore and Spent Rs7.7 Lakh Crore

One figure is announcements and the other is money spent, and they are being quoted in the same breath. The composition matters more than either: 56 per cent is one industry.

31 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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Developer Tools

How to Self-Host Home Assistant with Docker

Running the container instead of a supervised install gives up the add-on store, which is a real trade. And bridge networking silently breaks device discovery: the interface loads, the logs look healthy, and nothing on your network is ever found.

31 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
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Developer Tools

How to Self-Host Gitea or Forgejo with Docker

The environment variable that closes public registration was renamed, so copying an older tutorial leaves your git host open to sign-ups while the compose file appears to say otherwise. Then SSH needs a port that the host is already using.

31 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
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Developer Tools

How to Self-Host Nextcloud with Docker

The first decision is not a setting: there are two official deployment routes and they are not variations on each other. Then trusted domains refuse you the moment a proxy changes the hostname, and the PHP limits are environment variables rather than a file.

31 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
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Developer Tools

Why fancy text breaks search and screen readers

The bold and script letters people put in bios are not a font. They are mathematical notation, and the standard that defines them says plainly they should not be used to style ordinary text. Two consequences follow, and one of them costs you readers.

31 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
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Developer Tools

How to Back Up a Docker Stack

Every self-hosting guide ends by telling you to back it up and none of them say how. Three things live in different places, a running database cannot be copied as files, and the order the steps run in is what decides whether the result restores.

31 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
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