Articles about open source software and projects
A Fedora workstation dropped me to a GRUB prompt two months ago because a partial DNF upgrade left the kernel updated but the initramfs unregenerated. I rebuilt the initramfs in eight minutes…
I have been looking for a legitimate open source e-signature tool for about three years. I wanted something that did not cost $10 per user per month, did not lock my signed…
You stood up a service, opened a firewall rule, or wired up a reverse proxy. Now you want to know if a specific port is actually reachable from where you are. The…
For thirty years, the web ran on a single assumption: a person is doing the clicking. Every form, every checkout button, every “are you sure?” prompt was built for human hands and…
I have been the person explaining to a junior engineer why their beautifully normalised MySQL schema will not survive Black Friday, and I have been the junior engineer who built that schema…
The “AI is destroying open source” headline has been recycled in some form every six months since 2022. The actual story is more interesting and less dramatic. Generative AI has changed who…
A reflection on why open source software offers more trustworthiness than proprietary alternatives.
Whiteboard tools have multiplied over the last three years, and most of them require an account, send your data to a server, or both. The three below do neither. They are self-hostable,…
I have installed Linux on at least thirty different machines over the last fifteen years. Old office desktops, retired family laptops, hand-me-down servers, a couple of cloud VMs, and one stubborn ThinkPad…
Two years ago, running a local language model meant downloading 4-bit quantized weights (a compressed version of a model where the numbers that represent how strong each connection between neurons is have…
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