Osmond van Hemert

Senior Software Engineer

I’m Osmond — a senior software engineer based in Hoorn, NL, with 30 years of experience and the last decade spent mostly remote. My day job is mostly TypeScript on Node, React, and Kubernetes; my evenings are AI coding agents, a homelab that I keep promising myself I’ll downsize, and trying to keep up with the supply-chain security news cycle. Every Thursday since 2020 I write down what I learned that week — that’s this site.

Recent

Anthropic's SpaceX Deal — How Compute Capacity Became the Real AI Moat

7 May 2026·1137 words·6 mins

AI AI Cloud Infrastructure

Anthropic just bought all 300+ MW of SpaceX’s Colossus 1 data centre. Stacked next to its multi-gigawatt deals with AWS, Google, Azure and Fluidstack, the frontier-model race has quietly become a power-and-real-estate race — and that changes what developers can expect from these APIs.

Supply Chain Malware in PyTorch Lightning — When AI Infrastructure Becomes the Attack Surface

30 April 2026·1108 words·6 mins

Security Cybersecurity AI Python

A Dune-themed malware campaign targeting the PyTorch Lightning library highlights how AI/ML supply chains are becoming prime targets for sophisticated attacks.

Edge Computing Meets IoT — AWS and Azure Race to the Factory Floor

23 April 2026·1038 words·5 mins

Infrastructure IoT Cloud AWS

AWS and Azure are aggressively expanding their edge computing offerings for industrial IoT, bringing cloud-native tooling to factory floors and field operations.

Deno 2.3 and the Runtime Wars — Is Server-Side JavaScript Finally Settling?

16 April 2026·941 words·5 mins

Development Node.js Development JavaScript

Deno 2.3 brings workspace support and improved Node compatibility. With Bun maturing and Node.js evolving, the JavaScript runtime landscape is reaching an interesting equilibrium.

The xz Utils Aftermath — One Year Later, What Have We Actually Fixed?

9 April 2026·918 words·5 mins

Security Cybersecurity Open Source Supply Chain Security

Nearly two years after the xz Utils backdoor shocked the open source world, the supply chain security landscape has changed — but not enough.

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