Why LibreOffice 26.2 Feels More Stable Than Some Major Releases
Why LibreOffice 26.2 Feels More Stable Than Some Major Releases I have been using LibreOffice since it forked from OpenOffice more than a decade ago. In that time I have learned to…
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I Ditched Shazam for This Open-Source App — Never Going Back
I Ditched Shazam for This Open-Source App. Never Going Back. Shazam was the first app I installed on every new phone. I have been a Shazam user for fifteen years. The app…
AI Is Not a Coworker—It is an Exoskeleton: The Mental Model That Actually Works
AI Is Not a Coworker. It Is an Exoskeleton: The Metaphor That Finally Made Sense to Me For the last two years, every product launch deck in the AI space has used…
This simple container turned my markdown files into a personal wiki
This Simple Container Turned My Markdown Files Into a Searchable Wiki I have about 400 markdown files spread across six git repos, two cloud drives, and a folder called notes-from-2023 I have…
GitMenuBar: Your Git Commands, Right Where You Need Them
GitMenuBar: Your Git Commands, Right Where You Need Them I have a love-hate relationship with the macOS menu bar. I love that it is a quiet, ambient place where useful status lives.…
Docsify: Turn Markdown into Beautiful Documentation
Docsify: Turn Markdown into Beautiful Documentation Sites I have built documentation sites with six different tools over the years. Static site generators, server-rendered platforms, wiki engines, dedicated doc tools. Most of them…
This To-Do App Tracks Your Time, Handles Jira, and Collects Zero Data
I’ve been looking for a to-do app that does three things: tracks time on each task, syncs with the Jira board my team uses, and does not ship my data to a…
Guilt-Free Motivation in Open Source Communities
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…
Challenges Facing Open Source in Developing Countries
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…
How an Open Source Docathon Improved Our Documentation
How an Open Source Docathon Improved Our Documentation We spent a weekend rewriting our docs in a public Google Doc and learned more about our product than we did in a quarter…