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Adventures in Open Source Software

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• 25 Years of Professional Open Source Sep 10, 2026

  I forget when I was first introduced to open source. Back when I got my first computer in 1978, most of the software ...

• Passbolt Password Server Sep 01, 2026

  For $REASONS I decided to cancel my 1Password subscription. It renewed in February so I have time to get comfortable ...

• Galera Clustering and MariaDB Server Aug 04, 2026

  Today marks the start of my fourth week at Percona and these few weeks have been, well, exciting to say the least. I ...

GadgeteerZA

Simplifying Gadgets and Technology, is my passion!

• Australians Could Soon Opt Out of Social Media Algorithms Altogether Sep 09, 2026

  “The Australian government is proposing to give social media users the option to switch off the default algorithmic f...

• I discovered KDE’s hidden superpowers after installing these 3 open-source utilities Sep 08, 2026

  “If you’ve been in the Linux space for a while, you know just how customisable KDE Plasma can be. However, a lot of u...

• Kept is an open-source self-hosted alternative to Google Keep notes Sep 06, 2026

  It looks and feels like Google Keep notes, but is private and tracker-free. It has some extra features too, such as l...

Sam's Ramblings

I post here sometimes. I post whatever I feel like talking about, which is never consistent. Keyoxide: openpgp4fpr:31ec437b458e29b42f7644094d8b07c18f31acbd

• 27 Club Sep 09, 2026
• Metro Chronicles V Aug 05, 2026
• wait May 06, 2026

HunterDavis.com

The personal blog of Hunter G. Davis

• Announcing Curse of the Herder Sep 09, 2026

  Announcing “Curse of the Herder”, a screensaver experience for the web. It’s about a pissed-off little herder learnin...

• It happens so fast now, Johnny Castaway RetroArch released Aug 28, 2026

  No AI was used to draft this post, these are my words fully.

• Steam on Android is Workable, Performant, and Brittle. Aug 26, 2026

  A few weeks ago I wrote about getting the full ARM64 Steam client running on an unrooted Android tablet. At the time ...

Heitor's log

Practical Linux tutorials and command-line tips covering system administration, scripting, and performance benchmarking.

• I didn't know I needed an inclinometer Sep 09, 2026

  An ad showed me a tool I'd never seen or searched for, but I instantly wanted. A small reminder that They know my int...

• My writing is not 100% organic anymore Aug 19, 2026

  What I write is not 100% human-written anymore. I started using LLMs to help me write better and they do wonders.

• TIL: Unminimizing Ubuntu Docker images Aug 10, 2026

  How to restore man pages and other stripped content in minimized Ubuntu Docker images.

xkcd.com

• Fault Taunting Sep 09, 2026
• Semaphore Sep 07, 2026
• Asteroid Mission Sep 04, 2026

Tim Hårek

Personal blog of a Norwegian technologist writing about privacy-focused technology, web development, and monthly recaps.

• Goodbye SourceHut Sep 09, 2026

  Back in August, SourceHut wrote about their terms of service regarding LLMs. I was behind on my RSS-reading, so I did...

• August 2026 Aug 31, 2026

  Back to work, back to kindergarten, back to routine, and back to writing my monthly recently post! 🍀 Life Going back ...

• July 2026 Jul 31, 2026

  It’s now just two more days until I go back to work after a fantastic three-week summer vacation. I want at least thr...

Ploum.net

le blog de Lionel Dricot

• I Don’t Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots Sep 09, 2026

  I Don’t Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots My AI policy is "I don’t want any kind of interaction with that thin...

• I Don’t Have a Smartphone… Sep 02, 2026

  I Don’t Have a Smartphone… …or, at least, I wish I didn’t. "I don’t have a smartphone," is what I tell people and pro...

• L’onanisme des utilisateurs de chatbots Aug 17, 2026

  L’onanisme des utilisateurs de chatbots Quand bien même les chatbots ne seraient pas les produits de gigantesques ent...

Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy

Books, films, TV, videogames, comics, music, all that bread and circuses stuff.

• Big Finish, Bigger Scarf – The Fourth Doctor Audios, Part 2 Sep 08, 2026

  Once upon a time in the 1970s, Tom Baker had picked up the Doctor Who baton from Jon Pertwee and made it well and tru...

• The Soggy Railroad Sep 01, 2026

  Roguish 1920s adventurer Calvin Rafferty and gender non-conforming Miskatonic University academic Faye Bennett are de...

• Horns of Darkness, Vessels of Paranoia, and Clues of Carnage: Tim Curry Tribute Special! Aug 31, 2026

  In the midst of a desperately cruel August, we ended up losing Tim Curry. He had a ton of wonderful performances to h...

The New Leaf Journal

Where the leaves are perennially virid

• Charles Barkley on Scottie Pippen’s Aborted 2007 NBA Comeback Sep 08, 2026

  I remembered Charles Barkley having a humorous reaction on a 2007 episode of Inside the NBA when confronted with news...

• RSS Amplifier Re-Publishes 19 Full NLJ Articles Without Permission Sep 06, 2026

  A PSA about a new scraping service for AI crawlers that syndicated (charitably) or re-published (less charitably) 19 ...

• Syndicated Newsletter Leaf Journal 296 Sep 05, 2026

  A syndicated copy of Newsletter Leaf Journal issue 296.

Jordi Villar

I build distributed data systems that operate at scale. What draws me to this work is understanding how things actually work, whether that's performance challenges at scale or diving deep into system internals.

• Every Millisecond Counts Sep 08, 2026

  Imagine you join a new project with a clear goal, improve ClickHouse performance, so our biggest customers can run th...

• 2026W35 Sep 07, 2026

  You should never be angry at work — The line that got me was “you are not Linus Torvalds or Bryan Cantrill”, because ...

• 2026W34 Aug 31, 2026

  Git at any scale — The move that stuck with me is putting a write-ahead log in S3 as the source of truth and treating...

Personal Log at usebox.net

Recent content in Personal Log at usebox.net

• The effects of walking Sep 08, 2026

  Before I started working from home, I was lucky enough to commute to the office by foot. That was 35 minutes in each ...

• Loading from tape again Sep 04, 2026

  A couple of days ago we decided to repeat the experience of loading games from tape, but this time with my ZX Spectru...

• Detecting LLMs Sep 02, 2026

  I am not good at detecting when a piece of text has been produced by a large language model (LLM from now on). Very o...

ttntm.me - Blog

Tom's homepage. A personal website, journal and playground.

• Guitar Chops 01 Sep 07, 2026

  A couple of months ago, I got lost in Starfield. I didn’t do much else, and I hardly played my guitar. It’s only been...

• A New Guitar Aug 04, 2026

  I never thought I’d own a Strat, but now I do. Guess it’s true that the amount of guitars one needs will laways be n ...

• What's next? Jul 27, 2026

  Plans for the future of this website. To keep this brief, it’s probably best served as a list: Probably won’t write a...

Fatbobman's Blog

English Home | Fatbobman's Blog ｜肘子的 Swift 记事本 – Sharing content related to Swift, SwiftUI, Core Data, and Swift Data, as well as covering development tools, AI, and other topics. All articles are original creations; for reproduction, please contact the author.

• When the Mac mini’s Price Is No Longer Mini - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #152 Sep 07, 2026

  Late last month, Apple released the new Mac mini and Mac Studio. Alongside the impressive performance upgrades, the n...

• SwiftData: Optimization Starts with Modeling Sep 02, 2026

  Once a dataset grows large, SwiftData lists start to stutter. This has been the performance complaint I've heard most...

• Just a Few Keystrokes - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #151 Aug 31, 2026

  Last weekend, I attended an App Accelerator event hosted by Apple in Beijing. The event focused primarily on app deve...

Roy Tang

A blog is a website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries, typically displayed in reverse chronlogical order. A single entry is called a blog post.

• Looking for iPad Reader App Recommendations Sep 07, 2026

  I was originally going to post this on r/ipad, but when I tried to submit my post I got a warning that I might be vio...

• Weeknotes 2026-09-06 Sep 06, 2026

  It is September! Officially Christmas season over here. My Week I spent most of the week at home. It was kinda lazy a...

• Movies / TV - July & August 2026 Sep 02, 2026

  Feels like I didn't watch a lot of movies the past month or so, mostly because I've been working my way through all 1...

Sophia Willows' Blog

My thoughts on technology, business, and adjacent topics

• Shuffle-shard everything Sep 07, 2026

  I’ve administered a lot of system design interviews over my career, and I’ve never had anyone use shuffle-sharding.I ...

• Jitter the first request, too Jul 25, 2025

  Exponential backoff with jitter is an effective retry strategy that helps avoid thundering herds, but most implementa...

• Every tool call is a chance to prompt Jul 16, 2025

  There’s a subtlety in building AI agents that took me an embarrassingly long time to appreciate: your tool responses ...

Thranpages

Thranpages; home of idiosyncratic variety and curiosity. Personal website of Thran. Featuring writ, RSRU, WMW and other collected interests.

• phpBB 1.4.4 in Docker Sep 06, 2026

  The final release of the 2001 forum software, running on PHP5 + Apache + mySQL 4 in a modern Docker container. Also i...

• SimCity 3k in 4k Dec 20, 2025

  SimCity 3000 is the best SimCity. Its only problem is that it doesn't run well on contemporary systems. Not to worry,...

• Street Vending Oct 15, 2025

  Selling headphones on Facebook marketplace should be easier than this.

Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots!

Weekly Robotics Newsletter - stay up to date on state of the art robotics, drones, space, open source projects and research.

• Weekly Robotics #375 Sep 06, 2026

  Today in Weekly Robotics: A modular skid-steer UGV you can build yourself, a winning SLAM implementation, balancing a...

• Weekly Robotics #374 Aug 30, 2026

  Weekly Robotics 374: an insanely cheap robot duck, a guide to autodocking, highlights from the 2026 World Humanoid Ro...

• Weekly Robotics #373 Aug 23, 2026

  Weekly Robotics 373: how to train robots at a million-hour scale, NASA abandons satellite rescue mission, ROS enters ...

kmcd.dev

I'm Kevin McDonald. I am a backend software engineer from Texas, living and working in Copenhagen, Denmark. Let's learn together.

• Joining Buf Sep 06, 2026

  A check-in for my career

• Let's Talk About Streaming Data on the Web Sep 01, 2026

  A practical look at streaming data in the browser, from response streams and WebSockets to WebTransport over HTTP/3.

• The Gravity of Ashburn, Virginia Aug 25, 2026

  Why a suburb in Northern Virginia rivals the world's largest internet hubs.

The Autodidacts

Exploring the universe from the inside out

• Older than the dog Sep 05, 2026

  How wise do our mentors need to be?

• Ode to Metadata Sep 01, 2026

  Make your projects 4-dimensional

• How to fit Qwen3.8-27B into 16GB of VRAM and run it on a single RTX 3080 card: the best quantizations and Llama.cpp flags I've found Aug 23, 2026

  TL;DR: UD-IQ3_XXS with KV cache quantization