Articles about open source software and projects
ruvnet/wifi-densepose: turning WiFi signals into a motion capture system I have been following ruvnet‘s work for a few years. He publishes a lot of code, most of it under the MIT license,…
moeru-ai/airi: a self-hosted, you-owned GPT-style companion I have been running a local AI assistant on a small home server for about six months. The assistant I am using is airi, a project…
An open source developer faces a legal threat from a corporation In late 2025, the maintainer of a small but widely-used open source library received a cease-and-desist letter from a Fortune 500…
ONLYOFFICE 9.3 Just Made PDF Editing Actually Usable I have been avoiding PDF editing on Linux for the better part of a decade. The toolchain has always been a stack of three…
I have spent the last three years working with developer communities across West Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, and the open source struggle I have seen there does not match the…
Our Virtual Conference Used These Open Source Tools (And Saved $80,000) I helped organize a 700-person virtual conference last year, and the entire thing was built on open source tools. Stage production,…
I Got More Productive By Embracing Guilt: Here’s What I Learned I am a person who feels guilty when I do not work. I have felt this way since I was about…
There’s a moment in the life of every successful product where the database quietly stops being the easiest part of the system. For a long time, you can run a Postgres (PostgreSQL,…
Guilt-Free Motivation in Open Source Communities I spent three years contributing to an open source project I had stopped enjoying. The guilt of walking away kept me there through two rewrites, a…
I have spent a fair amount of time working with open source communities in countries that are usually described as “the Global South” (a term that groups Africa, Latin America, parts of…
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