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Today i bring the working main camera! Building on the work nondescriptpointer did on the wide lens camera i have written the driver for the main camera and now its working alongside auto focus and color correction. The color correction still a work in progress, but you can…
Development Update, August 2026
A new home for the infrastructure Bluesky runs on the open network — including Jetstream v2 with network replay, a new Jetstream SDK, and a lex-based TypeScript SDK
These release notes are optimized for viewing inside Squeak, as they contain a lot of interactive examples. On this page, interactive links open in SqueakJS, which is a browser-based Smalltalk VM with some limitations. For the best experience, download Squeak and read the release notes there.
The Akihabara institution that every Japanese maker knows — run on cash, instinct, and one founder’s restless curiosity
libexpat is a fast streaming XML parser. Alongside libxml2, Expat is one of the most widely used software libre XML parsers written in C, specifically C99. It is cross-platform and licensed under the MIT license .
Mini Shai-Hulud malware was injected into keyv and eight related npm packages on August 4, 2026 after an attacker compromised the maintainer's GitHub account
The age of personalized software is here.
I wanted Book Corners to contribute newly submitted public bookcases back to OpenStreetMap. After researching the operational and community requirements, I decided not to implement it.
On 20 June 2006 we incorporated RISC OS Open Ltd with one slightly mad ambition: to take a proprietary operating system and open it up to anyone who fancied helping. Twenty years on, that has largely happened, and the RISC OS of today is in far better health than the one we inherited.
Leonardo de Moura — Creator of Lean and Z3
The NetBSD project is pleased to (finally) announce the NetBSD 11.0 release ! See the release announcement for details.
We now have a new way for you to help us write the monthly updates :)
Google gatekept key Android features, and the European Commission asked what we thought about it. Now Alphabet must open 11 Android features to all.
The field of generative AI is evolving quickly. It brings compelling opportunities to improve developer productivity, but it also brings risks: to reviewer burden, to safety and security, and to intellectual property.
New SBCL versions are usually released at the end of each month: check the Sourceforge File List to see the current version. The new features of all SBCL releases are listed below.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on open-weights models
Codeberg drew a democratic, but suboptimal line.
A brief comment on Codeberg’s new terms, and why a free-software host deciding which projects are welcome worries me more than the bans themselves.
In Brief: Two motions regarding
The Fairphone 6 is an interesting target for mainline Linux and postmarketOS for a few reasons:
If you don’t know what OpenCode is, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever. The boot is made of TypeScript and the face is everything we have learned about security and systems software since the invention of the electronic computer in the 1940s. The creators describe it as an AI coding agent. As far as I can…
⭐️ A friendly language for building type-safe, scalable systems!
Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source. Explore the IRC client that turned conversations into comics and helped introduce Comic Sans to the world.
Bluesky now owns the trademark for AT Protocol to shield the ecosystem and make sure it can be used as widely as possible.
This is a quick update about the status of Briar. Short version: the project is still active but we’re only making essential security updates and bugfixes for now. Long version: For several years we’ve been trying to find solutions to some of the longstanding issues with Briar, such as high battery usage and…
The first long-term support release in 5.x series. Supported until July 2028.
Open source software is the foundation of much of our digital infrastructure. However, is AI undermining the incentive structure? What needs to change?
The snappiest chat application you've ever used is now available for self-hosting.
