GitLab, Mattermost, and HashiCorp all started as free software projects. All three turned those projects into venture backed companies. Here is the pattern underneath those raises, and what it means for open…
Linux desktop music players have not changed much in ten years. A few Electron monsters that eat RAM, a few minimalist tools that ignore the desktop, and a long tail of older…
I have been running agents in production for about three years, and the gap between what a hosted runtime like Claude Managed Agents (Anthropic’s managed service that wraps a model in a…
Anyone who sponsors a small package into Debian (or sits downstream of one) ends up watching every patch land in front of a human reviewer before it ships. Two months into using…
The most useful thing in the LibreOffice 26.8 release announcement is not a feature. It is a sentence that says what is not there. The Document Foundation put that absence at the…
Google is shutting down Google Assistant on Android in September, and the replacement the company wants you to use is Gemini. That is fine for a lot of people. It is not…
Most coverage of local AI in 2026 still talks about hardware nobody owns. A $1,500 GPU box. A water-cooled workstation. A render farm. That framing is wrong. The interesting story is what…
I have been watching the open-source agent framework space for a couple of years, and the pattern I keep tripping over is the same. Every new release promises a single brilliant agent…
I keep coming back to the same conversation when I talk to people who run open source projects. They get more pull requests from strangers than they used to. The issues look…
Office software has been getting heavier for years, and most of that weight is AI features nobody asked for, bolted onto apps that worked fine without them. A new open source office…
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