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Fork Freshness: Project lifespans in the Ruby ecosystem
I've built an app called Fork Freshness . In the process of building that app, I've learned some interesting things about how open source projects evolve over time.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,100 posts.
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HyperRogue, a open-source non-Euclidean roguelike: new weapons
HyperRogue version 13.0 is released on Steam and itch.io ! Again, it was quite a long time since the last major update (12.0, from 2021)....
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The vgo proposal is accepted. Now what?
Last week, the proposal review committee accepted the “vgo approach” elaborated on this blog in February and then summarized as proposal #24301 . There has been some confusion about exactly what that means and what happens next.
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KDE makes Qt
Recently I was trying some statistics on the qtbase-module (where QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets and so on lives) and was wondering who made them. Not based on their current paid affilation, like Thiago’s graphs , but if each commit was made by a person coming from KDE.
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Open Source .NET – 2 years later
A little over 2 years ago Microsoft announced that they were open sourcing large parts of the .NET framework and as Scott Hanselman said in his recent Connect keynote, the community has been contributing in a significant way:
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Go’s major versioning sucks – From a fanboy
I'm normally a fan of the rigidity within the Go toolchain
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Starting Over: A FOSS proposal for a new type of OS for a new type of computer
My talk should be on in about an hour and a half from when I post this. A possible next evolutionary step for computers is persistent memory: large capacity non-volatile main memory. With a few terabytes of nonvolatile RAM, who needs an SSD any more? I will sketch out a proposal for how to…
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Open Source Could Be a Casualty of the Trade War
When I heard that ARM was to stop doing business with Huawei, I was a little bit puzzled as to how that worked: ARM is a British company owned by a Japanese conglomerate; how was the US able to extend its influence beyond its citizens and borders? A BBC report indicated that ARM had concerns over its US origin…
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Opensource your abandonware (2010)
As you may know, back in 2007 I ressurected the development of GrafX2 . this old pixelart program, made only for DOS, was left out 6 years earlier by the authors, that had moved on to more modern computers. Today, graFX2 is amongst the best tool for pixelling, particularly on Linux or other alternative operating…
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Open Source Bait and Switch
When OSS advocacy goes too far & corporate greed takes over, free software is used as a tool to destroy competition and hurt the developer community.
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My goal of closing 10% of Emacs bugs (2020)
Hey! Target reached: Bragging time! I mean, this is the irregular Emacs update … stats … report… thing… So, I’m gamifying Emacs development by setting myself a goal of…
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Freeing a Xiaomi humidifier from the cloud
Thoughts, stories and ideas about of a code poet, bit juggler & logic wizard.
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The Future of Payments and Open Source Support
Some thoughts about various payment systems on the internet and how viable they are for open source project support.
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Microsoft Open Sources .NET and Mono
Miguel de Icaza's Blog
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Moral lessons from free software and GNU Emacs
Video blog on the five lessons I learnt in my life as a computer user, including when I switched to free software and GNU Emacs.
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Debian port for RISC-V 64-bit
This is a post describing my involvement with the Debian GNU/Linux port for RISC-V (unofficial and not endorsed by Debian at the moment) and announcing the availability of the repository (still very much WIP) with packages built for this architecture. If not interested in the story but you want to check the…
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Putin Orders Russian Move to GNU/Linux
This looks huge: Глава правительства Владимир Путин подписал план перехода властных структур и федеральных бюджетников на свободное ПО. Сог...
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Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset
I did not expect this! [...] we are announcing today the general availability of a foundational open data set, Foursquare Open Source Places ("FSQ OS Places"). This base layer of …
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Fedora/RISC-V reaches initial goal
Ha ha only joking. However when we started out on building Fedora on the free RISC-V architecture, the goal we decided on was to get every package in the Fedora @Core group built. I’m happy t…
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I changed my license
In the last 28 years of publishing software, I’ve had three distinct eras of software licensing. All of my recent stuff is available under the European Union Public License 1.2, and I thought to explain why.
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I like gentoo's package deprecation process
Gentoo’s process for removing packages from the main gentoo package repository is designed to make me aware of it and give me time to react, and I really appreciate that.
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The Document Foundation ejects its core developers
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