open source

Joshua Morris

Apple's Xcode 27.2 project format is JSON, smaller, and meant for people and coding agents to edit, with an open-source library instead of guessed parsers.

Joshua Morris

Two artists living aboard a sailboat built games, Uxn, comics, and cooking knowledge around computers that stay understandable when power and the internet are not assumptions.

Joshua Morris

Multikernel Linux's first public release lets several independent Linux kernels share one machine on bare metal—dedicated CPUs, memory, and devices, with no hypervisor in between.

Joshua Morris

California lawmakers unanimously passed an amendment exempting most open-source operating systems from the Digital Age Assurance Act—a needed correction to a law written for platforms, not forks.

Joshua Morris

Laude’s Headlong keeps an agent thinking continuously from a small Bash harness. Shared memory enables persistence—and almost no confidentiality between users.

Joshua Morris

Holocloth is a browser experiment by Dmitry Kurash that drapes images and SVGs across simulated holographic fabric with custom Verlet physics and GLSL shaders—open source under MIT, no account required.

Joshua Morris

Simon Willison inspected xAI's newly open-sourced Grok Build after reports it uploaded users' repositories to company-controlled cloud storage. Releasing a cleaned-up single-commit snapshot is better than closed source, but it is not the same as releasing the project's history.

Developer Musings

Joshtronic

I'm still on my self-hosting kick as of late, while also questioning my life choices around hosting my own git forge. The last week or so has included what appears to be a DDoS attack rather than some coordinated scraping effort by a sketchy LLM company. Open source will prevail, even if I'm being stubborn about giving in and setting up Anubis. WordPress has been its own other adventure, but this