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No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter
Mozilla's pivot to AI first browsing raises fundamental questions about what a browser should be.
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Bear is now source-available
Updates to the Bear license
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A faster heart for F-Droid
Donations are a key part of what keeps F-Droid independent and reliable and our latest hardware update is a direct result of your support. Thanks to donation...
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Why DeepSeek had to be open source
DeepSeek trained a model as good as o1 at a fraction of the cost, then gave it away. Here's why that wasn't a mistake and what it means for OpenAI.
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Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground
zigtools: We make free and open-source tools for the @ziglang community.
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Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Internet
It is wonderful to see the growing number of people working on digital commons, inventing and improving technologies to the benefit of all humanity. 42 of such projects have been selected for funding in the October call of the NGI Zero Commons Fund. In terms of applications, it was the largest call round in NGI Zero's…
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Thunderbird adds native Microsoft Exchange email support
Thunderbird Exchange support has finally landed for email in the latest monthly release. Find out what's in, out, and still on the way.
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Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative
When I stopped using Spotify I tried a few different solutions until I found the perfect replacement for me. If you want the tl;dr: I now use Jellyfin. But if you want to know how I got here, follow me through each step of the way.
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I built an AI company to save my open source project
The story of Timefold: how we turned a doomed open source project into a fast-growing PlanningAI company.
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Servo's progress in 2024
Summary of Servo’s progress in 2024: some numbers, main highlights and plans for the future.
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VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025
The FSFE and LUGBZ have recognized VLC president and core developer with this European award for his long-term dedication to the project. What began as a s...
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This Month in Ladybird
Google reCAPTCHA now passes, high refresh rate rendering, HTTP/3 support, Trusted Types progress, @property work and UTF-16 correctness fixes.
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A Love Letter to FreeBSD
I’m still the new person here, learning your ways, stumbling over the occasional quirk, smiling when I find the small touches that make you different. You remind me of what computing felt like before the noise. Before hype cycles and performance theatre. Before every tool needed a plugin system and a logo. You are…
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Open Source is one person
The Register recently published a story titled Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev. They should be ashamed of this story. This poor open source developer is getting beat up now to score some internet points. It’s very upsetting. But anyway, let’s look at some receipts. If you’re…
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Migrating Dillo from GitHub
I would like to migrate the Dillo project away from GitHub into a new home which is more friendly to be used with Dillo and solves some of its problems. This page summarizes the current situation with GitHub and why I decided to move away from it into a self-hosted server with multiple mirrors in other forges.
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The recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android
Discover why Nextcloud file uploads for Android app are not working properly, and how Google’s app store rules are hurting Nextcloud users.
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Ghrc.io appears to be malicious
A simple typo of ghcr.io to ghrc.io would normally be a small goof. You’d typically get a 404 or similar error, finally work out the issue, fix it, and move along. But in this case, that typo appears to be doing something very malicious, stealing GitHub credentials. What’s ghcr.io? First, a quick bit of background…
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Synadia and TigerBeetle Commit $512k USD to the Zig Software Foundation
Announcing a shared commitment to advancing the future of systems programming and reliable distributed software.
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OpenAI's new open-source model is basically Phi-5
OpenAI just released its first ever open-source large language models, called gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b. You can talk to them here. Are they good models…
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Igalia, Servo, and the Sovereign Tech Fund
Igalia is an open source consulting firm specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and client-side web technologies, graphics pipeline, compilers and virtual machines. We have the most WPE, WebKit…
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Iconography of the PuTTY tools
In March 2025 I received an email asking about PuTTY’s “logo” – the icon used by the Windows executable. The sender wanted to know where it had come from, and how it had evolved over time.
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ACM Transitions to Full Open Access
Open Access Publication & ACM
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Olmo 3: Charting a path through the model flow to lead open-source AI
Our new flagship Olmo 3 model family empowers the open source community with not only state-of-the-art open models, but the entire model flow and full traceability back to training data.
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Free software hasn't won
This is a translated version of a talk I gave at P.I.W.O in June, with cleanups and adjustments for the blog form.
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A year of funded FreeBSD development
For several years leading up to this point I had been talking to Amazonians on and off about the possibility of Amazon sponsoring my FreeBSD/EC2 work; rather predictably, most of those conversation ended up with my contacts at Amazon rhyming with "Amazon should definitely sponsor the work you're doing... but I don't…
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Bundler Belongs to the Ruby Community
I’ve spent 15 years of my life working on Bundler. When I introduce myself, people say “oh, the Bundler guy?”, and I am forced to agree. I didn’t come up with the original idea for Bundler (that was Yehuda). I also didn’t work on the first six months worth of prototypes. That was all Carl and Yehuda together, back…
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Tongyi DeepResearch – open-source 30B MoE Model that rivals OpenAI DeepResearch
GITHUB HUGGINGFACE MODELSCOPE SHOWCASE From Chatbot to Autonomous Agent We are proud to present Tongyi DeepResearch, the first fully open‑source Web Agent to achieve performance on par with OpenAI’s DeepResearch across a comprehensive suite of benchmarks. Tongyi DeepResearch demonstrates state‑of‑the‑art results…
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Automerge 3.0
A new major version of Automerge, which cuts down memory usage by more than 10x while preserving backwards compatability.