MCP-Airlock Is Now Trentina: The 1377 Quarantine That Inspired Our Rename

MCP-Airlock Is Now Trentina: The 1377 Quarantine That Inspired Our Rename
Trentina MCP security - medieval ship anchored near quarantine island off Ragusa, with torn tape labels reading Trentina, 1377, Quarantine, and MCP Security on aged parchment

MCP-Airlock is becoming Trentina — named after the 1377 quarantine system from Ragusa that inspired its architecture. Same three-layer defense, same gateway, better name.

Project Bluefin is Helping Prove That Dark Factories Work for Operating Systems

Project Bluefin is Helping Prove That Dark Factories Work for Operating Systems
90s zine collage showing a fire truck crossed out with a red X next to a building inspector clipboard with green checkmarks and the GNOME foot logo, representing the shift from reactive bug reporting to automated desktop testing

Six years ago, I wrote about the good, better, best approach to Linux quality when evaluating container images. The same framework applies to desktop Linux distributions – maybe even more so, because desktops have a GUI that’s notoriously hard to test automatically. Here’s what I wrote: Good: Use a bug tracker and collect problems as