A developer's 2021 year in review, covering tech talks, workshops, open source contributions, and live coding streams.
Argues against using Discord for FOSS projects due to its proprietary nature, which excludes users and conflicts with free software principles.
Analyzes illegal commercial forks of FOSS projects like OBS Studio, exploring license violations and the clash between gaming industry IP views and free software values.
Introduces Surge, a fast, zero-configuration page caching plugin for WordPress that boosts performance dramatically.
A developer analyzes the barriers preventing Linux from mainstream desktop adoption, focusing on needed improvements in robustness, intuitiveness, and community.
Tips for new Linux users to improve their success rate, focusing on the OS's strengths for programmers and technical users.
Introducing OmicNavigator, an open-source R package and web app for interactive exploration and visualization of omics data analysis results.
Announcing the OSS Quickstart Archetype, a Maven template for bootstrapping modern, opinionated open-source Java projects with best practices.
Introduces the OSS Quickstart Archetype, a Maven template for bootstrapping modern, opinionated open-source Java projects with best practices.
A recipe of GitHub Actions CI workflows to automate documentation linting, dependency alerts, and PR management for open source maintainers.
postmarketOS offers a community-driven, open-source alternative to Android for smartphone hacking, using Alpine Linux for better transparency and collaboration.
Satirical proposal to pay developers to delete npm modules, highlighting security risks of excessive dependencies in the Node ecosystem.
Critique of GitHub's 'stale' bot, arguing it harms community collaboration by automatically closing inactive issues.
A developer reflects on the burnout and challenges of maintaining an open source project, leading to its eventual abandonment.
A critical analysis of the 4privacy Kickstarter project, examining its privacy promises, technology, and potential economic and trust challenges.
A reflection on KDE's 25-year history, its evolution from a Linux desktop project to a diverse software community, and its sustainable impact.
Argues that developers should rely on third-party software distributions to package their software, rather than distributing it themselves.
A developer shares insights from building and open-sourcing a React component for virtualizing large lists to improve performance.
Explores user-built alternatives like Nitter and Invidious that reclaim the web from corporate platforms by offering ad-free, privacy-focused interfaces.
Developer shares progress on FOSS projects: a vi-keybinding Wayland browser frontend, a programming language, and updates to SourceHut.
