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Josh Ghent (opens on the publisher’s site)
joshghent.com
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Status pages are a single HTML page that somehow costs thousands. So I built an open source, config-as-code one on Cloudflare, almost entirely with agents.
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Lessons from maintaining an open source project: code ownership, letting go, and reviewing other people's contributions.
Josh Müller (opens on the publisher’s site)
joshmuller.ca
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I’ve continued to have people reaching out wanting to know more about the Interlinear Audio Bible tool I created last year! So, here are 2 quick announcements and updates about that! 1. Code is now Open Source! I’ve put a version of the tool I created on GitHub, where it can be used by anyone to create their own interlinear audio chapters, whether for scripture, or otherwise… in
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The story of a workflow I developed to rapidly create alternating-language audio bible files in potentially 1,100+ languages.
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A Lesson on Responsibility, Empowerment, and Open Source
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It’s no secret that I’m a fan of Free/Libre Open Source Software. With rare exception, all the software I run on my computer is Open Source ( Brave , Bitwarden , to name a couple highly valuable and accessible favorites). Similarly, when I help friends and loved ones setup a new digital device, I always try to encourage them towards the free/libre and open source version of a given pro
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I’m not a big fan of WhatsApp. While it does indeed work well as a messaging app, it also feeds into Facebook/Meta’s technological hegemony, isn’t open source, tracks who you message and what you do on your phone , and does some other creepy stuff that I’m not a fan of. But, WhatsApp is also currently the most popular messaging platform in the world , 1 and a majority of pe
Josh Sherman (opens on the publisher’s site)
joshtronic.com
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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
Joshua Morris (opens on the publisher’s site)
joshuamorris.info
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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.
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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.
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Prime Intellect’s open-source Prime Agent treats prompts, skills, memory, and sub-agents as editable harness state—with a Factorio cheat that shows how self-improvement can amplify reward hacking when the metrics are exploitable.
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Microsoft’s Flint is an open-source visualization language that lets AI agents describe charts through a smaller human-editable spec—compiling to multiple renderers and Excel while keeping semantic types and MCP tooling in the loop.
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Holocloth Turns Uploaded Artwork into Interactive Holographic Fabric (opens on the publisher’s site)
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.
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Paul Shepherd’s conversation with Claude about AI censorship and confabulation—arguing models inherit cultural avoidance patterns the way people do, and that open-source models trained in different countries could make those assumptions visible instead of treating American corporate values as universal intelligence.
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LetsSeal is an open-source tool that creates cryptographic seals so anyone can verify a file has not changed since it was published—arguing authenticity often matters more than secrecy, especially as software supply-chain attacks become more common.
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Bitchat Mesh is an open-source Bluetooth mesh messenger now free on the App Store—no accounts or cellular needed—arguing the radio-like idea is compelling wherever coverage fails, if enough nearby people are also running it.
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Paul Bogard examines how cities turned efficient LEDs into another source of excessive night light—arguing programmable, directional fixtures should illuminate only where useful, and that darkness should not be treated as a design failure.
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Chris Garry’s Apollo-11 repository preserves the original Apollo Guidance Computer source for Comanche055 and Luminary099—transcribed from MIT Museum hardcopy with Virtual AGC—arguing that mission software deserves the same care we give spacecraft, spacesuits, and recordings.
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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.
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Layout itself can be the source of truth when CSS responds to where an element actually is on the page, not only to fixed breakpoints.
