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Getting forked by Microsoft
Three years ago, I was part of a team responsible for developing and maintaining Kubernetes clusters for end user customers. A main source for downtime in customer environments occurred when image registries went down. The traditional way to solve this problem is to set up a stateful mirror, however we had to work…
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The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
Today we’re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever issue raised on the Microsoft/WSL repo:
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What we talk about when we talk about sideloading
We recently published a blog post with our reaction to the new Google Developer Program and how it impacts your freedom to use the devices that you own in th...
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F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree
For the past 15 years, F-Droid has provided a safe and secure haven for Android users around the world to find and install free and open source apps. When co...
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NPM debug and chalk packages compromised
The popular packages debug and chalk on npm have been compromised with malicious code
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Ghostty is now non-profit
Ghostty is now fiscally sponsored by Hack Club , a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit.
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Google open-sources the Pebble OS
The source code for the Pebble operating system in now open, to support the volunteer community maintaining Pebble watches.
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Pebble Watch software is now open source
Pebble Watch Software Is Now 100% Open Source + Tick Talk #4 - PT2 Demos!
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Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead
May 2026 update This post was written at a time of significant turmoil in my life, when multiple correlated events happened in quick succession. What I wrote in the post below is true, but a lot was left unsaid, as some things were still being investigated. At the time when I wrote the post, despite resigning from my…
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Blender 5.0
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
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Debian 13 “Trixie”
After 2 years, 1 month, and 30 days of development, the Debian project is proud to present its new stable version 13 (code name trixie ).
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Free software scares normal people
80% of the people only need 20% of the features.
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Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg
Ever since git init ten years ago , Zig has been hosted on GitHub. Unfortunately, when it sold out to Microsoft , the clock started ticking . “Please just give me 5 years before everything goes to shit,” I thought to myself. And here we are, 7 years later, living on borrowed time.
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KDE is now my favorite desktop
From my last blog post , I am now using KDE as the desktop environment for my gaming rig. The reason is because I want a reasonably easy to use Linux desktop for when my wife needs to use the PC for something other than gaming, and this was the reason why my "traditional" Sway setup was a no-go.
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Blender releases their Oscar winning version tool
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
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I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022)
I was curious about the 51 Franklin Street address in the GPLv2 license notice so I wrote to them as they said
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Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy
We're excited to announce our support of two independent, open source projects: Ladybird, an ambitious project to build a completely independent browser from the ground up, and Omarchy, an opinionated Arch Linux setup for developers.
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Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity
We conduct a randomized controlled trial to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we find that when developers use AI tools, they take 19% longer than without—AI makes them slower.
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I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs
Adventures in programming, hardware, DSP, and chiptune
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IRS Direct File on GitHub
Personal blog of Chris Given, government technologist. These words are always written by a human; I have no one to blame but myself.
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ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructure
ETH Zurich and EPFL will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure. Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), the new LLM marks a milestone in open-source AI and multilingual excellence.
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My first contribution to Linux
I upstreamed my first kernel patch, and it was easier than I thought it would be.
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PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance
PeerTube is a tool for hosting, managing, and sharing videos or live streams.
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Apple is open sourcing Swift Build
Swift continues to grow in popularity as a cross-platform language supporting a wide variety of use cases, with support on a variety of embedded devices, form factors that encompass wearables to server, and a wide variety of operating systems. As Swift expands, there’s value in investing in matching cross-platform…
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Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover
Ruby Central recently took over a collection of open source projects from their maintainers without their consent.
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Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame
One framework for creating powerful cross-platform games