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Publishing Schematics Before “Open Source” Was a Word
The Akihabara institution that every Japanese maker knows — run on cash, instinct, and one founder’s restless curiosity
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,682 posts.
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KDE Plasma 6.0, and KDE Gear 24.02 released
The KDE community proudly presents Plasma 6, Frameworks 6 and Gear 24.02
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KDevelop 5.0.0 release
Almost two years after the release of KDevelop 4.7, we are happy to announce the immediate availability of KDevelop 5.0. KDevelop is an integrated development environment focusing on support of the C++, Python, PHP and JavaScript/QML programming languages. Many important changes and refactorings were done for version…
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Finch: An open-source client for container development
Today we are happy to announce a new open source project, Finch. Finch is a new command line client for building, running, and publishing Linux containers.
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Osm-p2p: a peer-to-peer distributed OpenStreetMap database
Digital Democracy is now Awana Digital
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Radicle 1.3.0
Sovereign code infrastructure.
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Open Source SDR Ham Transceiver Prototype
The future is here: LinHT booted up successfully for the first time. We believe that Software Defined Transceivers will be the next big trend in amateur radio.
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Kubernetes 1.15: Extensibility and Continuous Improvement
We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.15, our second release of 2019! Kubernetes 1.15 consists of 25 enhancements: 2 moving to stable, 13 in beta, and 10 in alpha. The main themes of this release are: Continuous Improvement Project sustainability is not just about features. Many SIGs have been working…
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Is the FSF Fighting the Previous War?
This is a bit genuine red meat and perhaps a little sensitive for some people but it does raise a point that deserves discussion. A shorthand for that point is the title of today’s post. A more descriptive way of describing it is, “Is the FSF’s demand for purity actually harming the users they’re striving to protect?”
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Exposing the Wayland lie (2018)
Hi, people of the future! Did you know that I wrote a follow-up article to this one, called “Further Thoughts on Wayland”? This original article was written in a more combative tone tha…
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Pine64’s response to “Why I left Pine64”
We rarely, if ever, make responses to blog posts or articles. In fact, there is only one instance that I can think of when we did so. So then, somewhat uncharacteristically, this is a response post to Martijn Braam’s blog in which he explains why he left the PINE64 community. Let’s get one thing out of the way first…
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Tildes – A non-profit community site driven by its users' interests
Online communities are in a precarious and unhealthy state right now. We can do better.
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Usbimager – A non-electron based alternative to Balena Etcher
USBImager, Windows, Linux, MacOS
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1,145 pull requests per day
There is a recent video of Patrick Collison at Stripe Sessions 2025 stating that in 2024 Stripe did on average 1,145 pull requests per day. Not just creating them, but actually finishing them; "fully shipped into production". All whilst having less than a minute of API unreliability for the
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Real-time Ubuntu is now generally available
Real-time Ubuntu brings end-to-end security and reliability to the time-bound workloads of modern enterprises. With support for real-time compute, Canonical furthers its commitment to providing a best-in-class experience for open-source software consumption. 14 February 2023, London: Canonical today announced the…
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TeleMessage Explorer: a new open source research tool
I've spent the last week or two writing code to make sense of the massive hack of data from TeleMessage, the comically insecure company that makes a modified Signal app that Trump's former national security advisor Mike Waltz was caught using. I've decided to publish my code
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Qt Creator 4.3.0 released
Explore the Qt Blog for the latest insights on e.g. Qt Creator, your go-to source for cross-platform development tips and updates.
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Introduction to Open Source Laptop Project by Lukas Henkel
Ever dreamt of designing your own open-source laptop? For a while now I´ve been fascinated by this idea. As you can probably imagine, this is a monumental task that will require a lot of time and resources. Working alone on a project of this size makes matters even more difficult.
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Travis merges private and open source repositories into one platform
We are excited to announce that starting May 2nd, 2018, you will be able to test and deploy your open source and private projects on travis-ci.com. We’re proud to support open source and we believe…
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Clutch, the Open-Source Platform for Infrastructure Tooling
By Daniel Hochman and Derek Schaller
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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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Creating Debian packages from upstream Git
In this post, I demonstrate the optimal workflow for creating new Debian packages in 2025, preserving the upstream Git history. The motivation for this is to lower the barrier for sharing improvements to and from upstream, and to improve software provenance and supply-chain security by making it easy to inspect every…
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Haiku: Call for Wallpapers
One of the most common feedback that we receive is that Haiku needs some nice colourful wallpapers shipping with its releases. We definitely want to improve the current situation. And we need your help. Haiku currently ships with only one (1) …
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Stripe: Open Source Retreat Grantees
Learn how to build web and mobile applications to accept payments, send payouts, and manage your business online with Stripe.
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Pruning and Polishing: Keeping OpenBSD Modern
Owing to its historic roots as a derivative of the original Berkeley Systems Distribution (BSD), OpenBSD includes a great deal of old code. Many files bear copyright notices from the year 1980, and in some cases, even older. Although not explicitly stated as a project goal, keeping OpenBSD modern is an important part…