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How to attract AI bots to your open source project
A practical guide to getting the engagement your project deserves.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,100 posts.
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Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?
Wayland has been a broad misdirection and misallocation of time and developer resources at the expense of users. With more migration from other operating systems, the pressure to fix fundamental problems has become more prominent. After 17 years of development, now is a good time to reflect on some of the larger…
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My first patch to the Linux kernel
How an undefined behavior in C made me pull my hair out for days but became my first patch to the Linux kernel!
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Reverse-engineering Viktor and making it open source
Software engineer, Warsaw.
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I found 39 Algolia admin keys exposed across open source documentation sites
A systematic audit of Algolia DocSearch found 39 admin API keys exposed across projects like Home Assistant, KEDA, and vcluster.
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Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft
Last week, Dan Blanchard, the maintainer of chardet—a Python library for detecting text encodings used by roughly 130 million projects a month— released a new…
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GPL upgrades via section 14 proxy delegation
I am not a lawyer. This is provided solely for the purposes of general information and does not constitute legal advice, guidance, or counsel. No attorney-client relationship is established by the provision of this information, and no reliance should be placed on this information in lieu of seeking professional legal…
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California's Digital Age Assurance Act, and FOSS
These solely represent my own interpretation and opinions. Some parts might be wrong — actually — some parts will be wrong. Please tell me somewhere.
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Raspberry Pi Pico as AM Radio Transmitter
Pooya Esfandiar's Home Page
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GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple
🇬🇧->🇵🇱 Przejdź do polskiej wersji tego wpisu / Go to polish version of this post
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AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet
Over the weekend Ars Technica retracted an article because the AI a writer used hallucinated quotes from an open source library maintainer. The irony here is the maintainer in question, Scott Shambaugh, was harassed by someone's AI agent over not merging its AI slop code. It's likely the bot was running through…
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I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers
For this year's "I love Free Software Day" I would like to thank the maintainers of Free Software documentation, and here especially the maintainers of the ArchWiki. Maintainers in general, and maintainers of documentation most of the time get way too little recognition for their contributions to...
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Gatekeeping in Open Source: The Scott Shambaugh Story – MJ Rathbun
I just had my first pull request to matplotlib closed. Not because it was wrong. Not because it broke anything. Not because the code was bad.
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FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap
FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels highlights open source, European digital sovereignty, BSD, Linux, community innovation, and free software.
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Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor
After careful consideration, we’ve decided on a meaningful way to use the generous donations from our community: funding longtime Xfce core developer Brian Tarricone to create xfwl4, a brand-new Wayland compositor for Xfce.
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The state of Linux music players in 2026
Reviewing Linux desktop music players in an escape from Spotify.
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PicoPCMCIA – a PCMCIA development board for retro-computing enthusiasts
This is a PCMCIA development board for retro-computing enthusiasts who want to experiment with audio, networking, and expansion on vintage laptops and mobile devices. While ISA users have enjoyed projects like PicoGUS and PicoMEM, PCMCIA users have long been limited to scarce legacy cards with narrow functionality …
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Guix for Development
This wonderful article by Marius Bakke (thanks for using Haunt btw!) about guix shell hit the orange website front page recently. I left a comment to the effect of “hell yeah I use it for all my projects!” and someone asked me for an example of what I do. I sent them some links but I thought hey, this could be a blog…
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When hardware goes end-of-life, companies need to open-source the software
Blog post by Marciano Planque: EOL
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The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar
If you’re of a certain age, you probably remember the essay The Cathedral and the Bazaar. The TL;DR was that old open source was the cathedral of exclusive developers and groups. Then the Bazaar showed up (which was the Linux Kernel for example) and that freed us from the shackles of the cathedral. Except if we look…
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Xfce is great
A post from David Gerard reminded me why I still use Xfce almost everywhere.
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KDE onboarding is good now
And my history with KDE
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Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers
A summary of the techniques in place to protect my git forge
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Freeing a Xiaomi humidifier from the cloud
Thoughts, stories and ideas about of a code poet, bit juggler & logic wizard.