Explores the concept of personal digital sovereignty, advocating for user control, privacy, and freedom through Free Software and informed choices.
Satirical article about a fictional 'Clean Room as a Service' that uses AI to circumvent open source licensing obligations.
Satirical article about a fictional AI service that recreates open source projects to bypass licensing obligations.
Discussion on the "We love open source" podcast about the potential threats that AI poses to the open source and free software movements.
A developer's 2025 year-in-review, focusing on open source project goals, financial earnings, and progress on tools like typescript-eslint.
OpenAI offers 6 months of ChatGPT Pro with Codex to core maintainers of significant open source projects, following a similar move by Anthropic.
OpenAI offers 6 months of ChatGPT Pro with Codex to core maintainers of significant open source projects, following a similar move by Anthropic.
A guide to context management strategies for OpenCode, an open-source terminal AI coding agent with a dual-agent architecture.
The Eleventy static site generator project is rebranding to 'Build Awesome' and announcing a Kickstarter campaign.
Cloudflare rewrites Next.js using AI, challenging Vercel's dominance and raising questions about open source defensibility.
Cloudflare rewrites Next.js using AI in a week, challenging Vercel's ecosystem and raising questions about open source defensibility.
Explores the legal and ethical implications of AI coding agents creating 'clean room' rewrites to relicense open-source software, using the chardet Python library case.
A software engineer's journey from opposing software patents to adopting defensive patenting as a necessary shield for startups and open-source projects.
Analyzes the legal and copyright implications of using AI to rewrite and relicense open-source software, using the chardet Python library as a case study.
Explores the legal and philosophical implications of AI re-implementing software, questioning copyright and licensing in the age of cheap code generation.
Developer announces submission of ScratchBook, a free macOS note-taking app, to the Mac App Store for review.
GitHub introduces tools to disable pull requests as maintainers face a flood of low-quality, AI-generated submissions, sparking debate on open source sustainability.
Highlights Handy, an open-source, offline speech-to-text tool for developers, emphasizing its local processing and multi-language support.
A daily tech reading list covering AI policy, software vulnerabilities, coding agents, new frameworks, and data engineering tools.
Anthropic offers free Claude Max AI access to eligible open source maintainers for six months, based on project popularity and activity.
