Weird little guys of FOSS
As the name says: a collection of "weird little guys" of the FOSS and adjacent worlds. Massively subjective, of course, but I don't think I've seen one (that I know of) that I disagree with yet.
DHH · Issue #501 · neovim/neovim.github.io
An excellent lesson in how not to handle feedback and how to make yourself look like you align with the worst of the worst.
Honesty gets Emacs patch rejected
The FSF, in effect, do what the FSF is there to do: defend the copyright of GNU Emacs. Meanwhile someone attempts to contribute a patch written by a large language model, and seemingly gets offended that it's rejected. I think the worst part about it is they seem to think that being honest about using an LLM should let their contribution in.
manyfold/AGENTS.md at main · manyfold3d/manyfold
Pretty fun anti-AI AGENTS.md file.
I wonder if it works?
Dave Pearson
Me on Codeberg.
in which more paths are charted towards code independence - Technomancy
A post on how git forges might be, or can be.
axios Compromised on npm - Malicious Versions Drop Remote Access Trojan - StepSecurity
axios got hacked in a pretty major way, which is pretty major in that it gets used all over the place.
open-slopware
A database of software that some feel is "tainted" by AI. Seems to very much come from the "all code touched by AI is slop; no disagreement is allowed". It is, however, an interesting project to follow.
The Slow Collapse of MkDocs
Having run into the issue of mkdocs-material sort of spamming about Zensical when you use it, and wondering what the hell is going on, this is some great background on what's going on with MkDocs.
Glama – MCP Hosting Platform
Use this one (not so) weird trick to trick bots to admit to being bots when it comes to doing PRs.
Can coding agents relicense open source through a “clean room” implementation of code?
Simon Willison's take on the whole chardet issue.
No right to relicense this project | Hacker News
HackerNews weighing in on the chardet legal/ethical issue.
AI will write your next compiler!
The blog post that explains the background of the horrific Ocaml AI-written PR. Honestly... this feels like some post hoc rationalisation cope rather than a coming clean of an honest attempt to test something out.
I'm not convinced at all.
SPDX License List | Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX)
The list of SPDX licences. For me this is useful to find the ID so that I can add the most useful value to Python package metadata.
Open Source Insights
Handy site, backed by Google, that lets you dive into packages from different ecosystems and see what they depend on and what depends on them, etc.
OpenNext Gets Closer to Making Next.js Truly Portable
I've read so many thanks about Next.js that suggest it's not a good time if you want to deploy anywhere other than with Vercel. It seens that this project aims to solve that problem.
SketchyBar
FOSS alternative to something like BarTender (even more useful now that BarTender seems to have gone a wee bit rogue).
A Microcosm of the interactions in Open Source projects
Some background on how the xz backdoor situation arose.
Open Source Maintainers Owe You Nothing
A reminder that FOSS project developers owe you nothing, at least under the license. The only way you're ever owned anything is if they've directly contracted them.
503 days working full-time on FOSS: lessons learned
Rodrigo's history of working at Textualize, mention of the layoffs, and what he learned during the time.