Tag: open source
Code For the People
New short documentary (< 20 minutes) via Automattic about Open Source and the Future of the Web. If you're already working in open source there won't be anything new here, and if you're part of the WordPress community you might even wonder if the timing of this has anything to do with the WP Engine...
Life as a Developer Advocate: 6 Months at CodeRabbit
After 6 months as a Developer Advocate at CodeRabbit, I'm sharing what the role actually looks like day-to-day, what I shipped, and lessons learned along the way.
Your identity isn't your username
Your handle is a label; your identity is a key you own. atproto splits who you are from what you're called, so you can rename freely, prove who you are with a domain you control, and carry one identity across the apps you use. Part of 'Apps as Views, Not Vaults': the things you make are yours; apps are just the viewers.
Your Agent Deserves Logs
How structured logs helped Codex fix a year-old bug, and why logs are the key to unlocking autonomous workflows.
Tanner Linsley built TanStack to outlive him
Tanner Linsley built TanStack into a thriving open source community. Now he needs to turn it into a sustainable business.
Who actually owns your network?
Every time I moved a community to a new platform, the exit cost members and history. Platforms come and go; the lock-in architecture underneath is why. Part of 'Apps as Views, Not Vaults': the things you make are yours; apps are just the viewers.
Announcing folk.zone: An attempt to build the IndieWeb commons myself.
Announcing folk.zone, a collection of free, community-run internet services I'm building as an IndieWeb commons. Including Mastodon, WriteFreely, Forgejo, Pixelfed, Lemmy, and more. All self-hosted on hardware in my living space. This is infrastructure for the common folk, not for enterprise or scale, inspired by omg.lol and rooted in the IndieWeb and Fediverse principles.
phpBB in 2026
Launched in June 2000, phpBB was, for a long time, a very common sight when using any online community. Today, with the huge rise is sites like Discord and Reddit, and even groups within social media behemoth Facebook, phpBB isn't as common - but it's still going strong. Web profiler BuiltWith tracks over 45,000 websites...
Remove Background Noise from Video Without Re-encoding: An Audio-Only Approach with DeepFilterNet3
A Python CLI tool that strips background noise from any video file using ML denoisers â while copying the video stream byte-for-byte. A 6 GB 4K file processes in minutes instead of hours.
Outsource your GitHub CI to a VPS: cheaper, faster, and a free backup server too
Self-hosted GitHub Actions runners on a small Hetzner VPS cut my CI wall-clock from ~12 minutes to ~3 minutes for about half the price of the GitHub-hosted minutes I was burning. Here's the full setup.
Make links to your blog render the custom "View publication" card + CTA
Short guide. The mechanism is simpler than it looks, and it doesn't involve any /.well-known file or DNS TXT record.
Announcing Fanfiction.lol: A Manifesto on Human Creativity and AO3
I deployed my own AO3 fork called fanfiction.lol, an independent fanfiction archive with no invite queue, fandom-agnostic moderation, and expanded content warnings. A manifesto on why fan communities deserve free infrastructure, the history of transformative works from Virgil to AO3, and the challenges of running a volunteer-powered archive at scale.
A Love Letter to Everything
My first IndieWeb Carnival entryâthe theme is love letters, and I couldn't pick just one thing. A letter to the infrastructure that holds my corner of the internet together, to the strangers who maintain the open-source tools I depend on every day, and to the IndieWeb friends I've met over the past few months. And finally, to curiosity: the embarrassing willingness to fall in love with a static-site generator or a transit system or a protocol nobody's heard of, which I've come to believe is what kept me alive.
Building with love, and paying for it
How do you fund work people don't want to pay for?
The Future of Science Depends on Open Source Engineers
The processes of modern science, from how research gets funded and conducted to how it gets published, evaluated, and preserved, were never engineered. They emerged over hundreds of years, built by researchers and institutions one workaround at a time. What we call "the scientific system" is really a patchwork of customs, formats, and platforms that were never designed to work together, never stress-tested at scale, and never designed to evolve.
Elio Struyf - Front Matter CMS, Demo Time
Elio Struyf showcases Front Matter CMS for VS Code and Demo Time, his tool for creating flawless presentation demos and talks.
Good, Standard Work: Creating the Commons
A defence of digital stewardship, IndieWeb principles, Blackfoot models of collective flourishing, and what it means to plant seeds in a garden you'll never see. From Garrett Hardin's infamous 1968 essay to Elinor Ostrom's Nobel Prize-winning refutation, the tragedy of the commons was never inevitable. It was always a choice.
One size fits none: let communities build for themselves
How open protocols and agentic development could lead to a whole new generation of social applications.
ATmosphere Conf 2026: the internet built for people, not platforms
370 people in Vancouver, 500 online, all working on the same question: what does the internet look like when users own their data? Highlights from the AT Protocol community conference.
7 best free open source business intelligence tools right now
The best free (and open source) open source business intelligence tools for startups, compared
7 best free open source LLM observability tools right now
Compare the best free and open source LLM observability tools, including PostHog, Langfuse, Opik, OpenLLMetry, Phoenix, and Helicone.
Software Harm Reduction
genAI code is now in Python, curl, and systemd. We face an ethical crisis. Slopware means we have two possible responses: absolutism or harm reduction. This moment demands the same principled stand that free software absolutists have taken for decades.
Update On File Browser
Last year, I wrote a bit on maintaining open source projects. At the time, I was struggling with one of my most (unexpectedly) successful side projects, File Browser. Today, I want to give an update on it, since I never wrote again about it. I'm hoping that this post helps explaining the current status of the project.
Small Steps For Agent-Friendly Codebases
Updating an open source library taught me a valuable lesson for making your codebase agent-friendly â small steps can have a big payoff.
8 best open source analytics tools you can self-host
This guide only includes open-source analytics tools that: Have built-in analysis views. This includes end-to-end analytics, and dashboard tools that connect to existing data sources, but not data pipeline platforms. Are actively maintained. ThisâŚ
Build Awesome's Kickstarter is Cancelled
After only a couple days, Build Awesome's Kickstarter has been cancelled and rescheduled due to email delivery issues that ruined the project's momentum despite reaching their funding goal in a single day.
AI slop is drowning communities. Verifiable track records can fix it.
AI-generated junk content is flooding every community platform. Traditional moderation can't keep up. Portable, cross-platform contribution history is a structural fix that addresses the root cause.
The End of Eleventy
Build Awesome is a rebrand of 11ty/Eleventy, backed by a successful $40k Kickstarter. But this attempt to monetize static site generators repeats the same mistakes that killed Gatsby and Stackbitâand misunderstands who actually builds static sites.
The virtuous circle
The virtuous circle is the most powerful pattern in developer tooling. And it's the myth of the 10x developer that makes it hard to see.
An Open Letter to Cory Doctorow: Ollama is part of the enshittification!
A response to Cory Doctorow's defense of generative AI, examining the contradictions in supporting Ollama while championing open source principles, and an examination about what purity culture and hypocrisy really means.
My Malware Story Gets Stolen; Yet Another Argument for the IndieWeb
A few days after writing about a weird malware campaign, I discovered that half a dozen cybersecurity news outlets had picked up the story. They now outrank me on Google. A metacommentary on the state of internet journalism, attribution, and what it says that a netsec industry has to rely on amateurs to break stories.
The Curious Case of the Triton Malware Fork
Today, a weird malware distribution campaign targeting users of omg.lol and Triton, an open-source macOS client of omg.lol, was found. The attack leverages the trust of GitHub, creating a malicious fork where the download link has been replaced with malware hidden in presented .zip file.