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Pouria
Developer and designer publishing at pouria.dev; author of the open-source URL shortener Kutt.
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Eugen Rochko
German developer; founder and lead developer of Mastodon, the decentralized open-source social network.
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Adam DeHaven
American senior staff engineer working on developer and user experience and open source; writes at adamdehaven.com.
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Terence Eden
British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at…
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Aris Ripandi
Indonesian software engineer, educator and engineering manager at Zero One Group; open-source enthusiast writing at ripandis.com.
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Sadayuki Furuhashi
Author of the open source projects MessagePack, Fluentd and Embulk, and co-founder and chief architect of Treasure Data.
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Amit Merchant
Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at…
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Daniel Stenberg
Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.
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Joe Previte
American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.
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Jeffrey Paul
American open-source program lead working on WordPress; a WordPress core contributor and release lead who writes at jeffpaul.com.
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James Brooks
British software developer at Laravel and creator of the Cachet open-source status page system. Podcaster; writes at james.brooks.page.
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Randall Wilk
Full-stack Laravel developer based in Madison, Wisconsin; maintains open-source Laravel, Livewire and Alpine.js packages and writes at…
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Bryan Cantrill
…CTO of Joyent; blogs about systems software, open source and engineering…
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Grant Sanderson
…mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math…
Said and published
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Guillermo Rauch
x.com
True. Open source ftw
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Eugen Rochko
Mastodon
Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH https://brennan.day/normalized-fascism-in-open-source-12-million-given-to-dhh/
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Max Howell
GitHub
pkg.so — A Database for all Open Source Packages
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Scott Hanselman
x.com
Awesome! Insane stuff like this is why we open sourced Zork
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Tomasz Tunguz
x.com
Use local / open source models with Claude Desktop!
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Joe Previte
GitHub
spanish-vocab — Open-source Spanish vocabulary size estimator
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Tobias Lütke
x.com
Btw we open sourced the core infra piece that makes these self improving loops possible.
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Scott Hanselman
GitHub
TinyToolTown — TinyToolTown is a place for stupid-delightful tools made with love. Free, fun & open source. Made for an audience of one.
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Simon Willison
GitHub
datasette — An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data
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Elio Struyf
x.com
🔥🚀 CodeRabbit is amazing, and their commitment to open source is wonderful. Hope other companies like them will join.
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Dean W. Ball
Korrent
No regulation, a ban on open source included, can prevent self-sovereign AI; more open-weight models may be the better defence.
I am telling you this is inevitable, which means I am also saying that “banning open source,” or for that matter any other regulation, will not solve the problem. Given the inevitability of this outcome, I think it is…
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Chris Tate
x.com
Free, open source harness¹ Free, open weights model thru Aug 27² What a time to be alive ¹ https://t.co/SzYHk89duW ² GLM-5.2 via @blackboxai
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Jensen Huang
Korrent
Without open source there would have been no mobile cloud industry, and no modern AI either.
If not for open source, the mobile cloud industry would have never happened.
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Sriram Krishnan
x.com
very good moment for American open source. Also big shout out to @ClementDelangue and team for persisting and building something over many trials and tribulations.
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swyx
GitHub
codingcareer.com — Career Guides, Principles, Strategies & Tactics to build an exceptional dev career
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Max Howell
GitHub
AppUpdater — Automatically update open source macOS apps from GitHub releases. Full support for attestations.
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Andy Baio
Bluesky
Mimic your own voice with Pink Trombone: an open-source model to control the classic human vocal tract simulator https://samuel.vvolhejn.com/
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David Crawshaw
x.com
Machines create code now. That means machines can personalize your software, if it is open source. Closed source tools (like Claude Code) are now less desirable.
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Guillermo Rauch
Liked
Blender — Blender Foundation
Open source training data Blender beats all its competitors because it's optimal in the most important dimension: agents can train on it and use it efficiently. OSS wins.
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Simon Willison
x.com
Just noticed the ChatGPT desktop app (previously named Codex) bundles a full copy of the LibreOffice open source office suite, tucked away in a hidden folder in the ~/.cache directory
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Peter Steinberger
Korrent
Every lab will sell you an agent, so the case for an open-source one is that it runs anywhere, works with any model, and can keep your data on your own device.
Every lab will sell you an agent. Open claw is the alternative. Open source runs everywhere, works with any model. And if you run local models, your data never has to leave your device.
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Scott Hanselman
GitHub
firsttimersonly — The Repository for the FirstTimersOnly movement in Open Source. We want projects to reserve some issues for newbies.
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Dax Raad
Korrent
In US-China AI competition the closed labs are beside the point; the competitor that shifts things must be American, open source and able to serve inference at scale.
in this whole USA vs China thing OpenAI and Anthropic aren't relevant because they're positioned differently
them building better models doesn't hurt china at all
the competitor has to be
- american
- open source
-…
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Chamath Palihapitiya
Podcast
The Fight Over Open Source AI, Anthropic's $1.5B Payout, NYC Socialists: Evictions = Violence?
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David Heinemeier Hansson
Korrent
This is the best time there has ever been to be an open source maintainer.
So, in my opinion, this is the absolute best time to ever have been an open source software maintainer. Not only do we get this wealth of glorious pull requests made by agents with all the boxes ticked, we also get to…
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Tomasz Tunguz
x.com
Meta launched two things yesterday : a state-of-the-art model & a new pricing system for foundation models. Muse Spark propels US open source models to the frontier. Meanwhile, the pricing system resets the industry’s…
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Peter Steinberger
GitHub
camsnap — CLI to capture snapshots, short clips, and run motion detection against RTSP/ONVIF came ras
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Jensen Huang
Korrent
Every company should be able to build its own AI, and the innovation that comes from that is the point of open source.
we want we want to encourage everybody and every company to build their own AIs. And and and who knows what innovation will come from the fact that it's open source.
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Chamath Palihapitiya
Podcast
More Trillion Dollar IPOs, Anthropic $3T, Zuck's Price War, China Ends Open Source?, Trump Accounts
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Guillermo Rauch
x.com
Excited to partner with and support @tannerlinsley and team, champion of React, open source, and the web What this means for our customers: whether you choose @nextjs or @tan_stack, we are committed to the highest…
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Sriram Krishnan
Blog
Open source models are having a moment
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Guillermo Rauch
Korrent
Open source wins because agents can train on it and use it efficiently, as with Blender beating its competitors.
Blender beats all its competitors because it's optimal in the most important dimension: agents can train on it and use it efficiently. OSS wins.
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Chamath Palihapitiya
Podcast
Open Source Wins, AGI Is Here, and Scorsese's AI Toolkit with CEOs of Cerebras & Black Forest Labs
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Pieter Levels
Recommends
Home Assistant — Home Assistant
home assistant + their HA Green (little box that's open source to connect all your devices with Home Assistant)
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Sriram Krishnan
x.com
seeing the Astra + Blender work makes me think open source tools will have a strong advantage in the AGI era given how much A) online content exists around them and the models learn from that. B) they tend to be more…
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David Heinemeier Hansson
Korrent
Agent-written pull requests already outclass those of the median human contributor to an open source project.
But it actually means that if you take the median programmer and their pull requests towards an average open source project, they're already getting outclassed by agents. I would rather get an agent-written pull request…
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Scott Hanselman
x.com
Open source maintainers were writing code for fun. Now AI is surfacing 20 years of vulnerabilities and telling them to fix it fast. Varun Badhwar of Endor Labs on Project Akrites. He's worried about the water supply,…
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Chamath Palihapitiya
x.com
BUYER BEWARE This extremely meticulous article will now be used to start Phase2 of “shut down open source” because “if we can’t control our closed models, imagine what happens to everyday life when anyone can just allow…
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Pieter Levels
Korrent
All you need to build a business today is free open source software, a VPS, an AI API and S3-style file hosting.
All you really need today to build a business is 100% free open source software that charges you $0/mo a VPS server an API to do some required AI stuff some R2/S3 file hosting
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Cassidy Williams
Loved
CrossPoint Reader
The most popular custom firmware for The Xteink is called CrossPoint Reader, which is fully open source and really great.
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Naval Ravikant
Korrent
Frontier labs are incentivised toward fear because it justifies staying closed, which leaves open-source advocates rooting for Chinese labs.
…Labs take the consistent position of doing what’s good for all and being open.
So the little guys find themselves in the uncomfortable position of rooting for the…
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Stefan Zweifel
Mastodon
The AWS account for my open source stuff, that hasn’t triggered any CI jobs in the past few days, apparently produced $970 billion Lambda costs. 😂 #aws
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Pieter Levels
GitHub
xdr-boost — XDR Boost is an open source alternative to Vivid without the bug that stops it working when you close your MacBook Pro and open it again
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Armin Ronacher
Blog
Gaslighting Openness
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Pieter Levels
GitHub
superlevels — A super Chrome extension I made that's safer than installing external malware/spyware-filled extensions that form a massive security risk, this one is open source and you can read and c…
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Dax Raad
Korrent
In every developer-tool category — databases, compilers, whatever — the open source option eventually becomes the default option.
every single dev tool we use whether it's databases, compilers, whatever eventually the open source option becomes a default option, right?
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Terence Eden
Mastodon
Found a useful looking Open Source tool. Distributed as source code rather than a binary, which is fair enough. But all the README says is: > Compile the project like any normal rust binary Yeah, cheers pal. What a nice…
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David Heinemeier Hansson
Blog
Let the agents democratize open source
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Praveen Kumar Purushothaman
YouTube
SSoC Season 5: The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Open Source (Video #0) | Praveen Kumar Purushothaman
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Sebastian Raschka
x.com
Looking forward to chatting with @hugobowne today (July 27) at 4 pm PT on the Vanishing Gradient livestream on YouTube. Will cover open source, the newest LLMs & trends, agent frameworks, and whatever else comes up.…
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Bill Gurley
Korrent
An open-source model ecosystem innovates faster than a closed one, because every participant learns from the others' work.
the competitive dynamic in China is more intense because it's more intense. Everyone's chosen to go open source and that creates a system that in my mind is capable of innovating far faster than the competitive system…
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Daniel Stenberg
GitHub
bagder — Open Source supporter and developer since the mid 1990s. My code is almost guaranteed to run in your devices, in one way or another. I work exclusively on Open Source since many years.
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Neha Narula
x.com
"The only funding model I've seen work [for open source] is the most ancient one, which is patronage."
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Charity Majors
Bluesky
woohoo, one testimonial for the new "Observability Engineering", chapter 29: "Build vs Buy (vs Open Source)"! in which we take on the evergreen question of "which do you hate more, your money or your time?"…
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Praveen Kumar Purushothaman
YouTube
Winter of Code 5.0 Closing Ceremony ❄️ | The Open-Source Storm Begins | GDG On Campus IIIT Kalyani
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Drew DeVault
Korrent
The Commons Clause does not solve open source’s funding problem; it is a framework for turning open source software into proprietary software.
But the Commons Clause doesn’t present a solution for supporting open source software. It presents a framework for turning open source software into proprietary software.
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Russ Cox
Blog
Timeline of the xz open source attack
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Zach Holman
Bluesky
Open sourced a repo for angel investors and VCs and others called `deckk` that will extract a PDF out of a docsend link (and eventually others). PDFs rock. github.com/holman/deckk
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Praveen Kumar Purushothaman
YouTube
Open Source Chat: Contributing to OLake through SWoC | Praveen Kumar Purushothaman | Akshay Sharma
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Jensen Huang
Korrent
Open-source models are fundamentally necessary for most industries, countries and researchers to join the AI revolution at all.
And if everything is proprietary, it's hard to do research and it's hard to innovate on top of, around, with. And so… Open source is fundamentally necessary for many industries to join the AI revolution.
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Joe Previte
YouTube
How to Contribute to an Open Source Project
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Jeffrey Paul
Liked
Firefox — Mozilla
Firefox — primary browser, because its open source.
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Drew DeVault
Blog
The circus freaks of open source
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Lex Fridman
x.com
Here's my conversation all about @FFmpeg, the legendary open-source software powering most video on the Internet. In the episode, I talk with Jean-Baptiste Kempf and Kieran Kunhya. JB is lead developer of VLC and Kieran…
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Praveen Kumar Purushothaman
YouTube
Winter of Code 5.0 Inaugural Ceremony ❄️ | The Open-Source Storm Begins | GDG On Campus IIIT Kalyani
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David Heinemeier Hansson
Changed their mind
Open source projects should adopt the commercial software playbook to compete for attention, and that professionalization is unequivocally good for open source.
I used to think that this was unequivocally a win for open source. That to fight for attention with the commercial alternatives, we had to adopt the commercial playbook. Now I think it’s at the very least a mixed…
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Ben Vinegar
GitHub
pi-stuff — Open-source Pi extensions that I use.
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Andrei Alexandrescu
Uses
Meld
I use git for source control, phabricator and meld for looking at diffs, and all of my open-source work takes place on github.
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Vitalik Buterin
Site
"I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpoint
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Scott Hanselman
Mastodon
The earliest DOS source code was found on printer paper in Tim Paterson's garage so we've open sourced it on 86-DOS 1.00’s 45th anniversary! This is next-level software archaeology for preservation, and plain ol’…
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Jensen Huang
Korrent
China is the fastest-innovating country in the world today, on the strength of its talent, its open-source habit and its ferocious internal competition.
So you get this rapid, incredible great talent, rapid innovation because of open source and just, you know, the nature of friends, and, and insane competition. Among the company, what emerges is incredible stuff. And so…
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Praveen Kumar Purushothaman
YouTube
Winter of Code 5.0 | The Future of Open Source Depends on You: From Student to Steward | My Talk 🎙️
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Sebastian Raschka
Newsletter
Understanding and Implementing Qwen3 From Scratch
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Andrej Karpathy
Blog
A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python
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Steve Coast
x.com
Creating a documentary on @openstreetmap's volunteer community, open-source release, centered on three #SOTM conferences. Join us!
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Kaspars Dambis
x.com
This is so cool! A @levelsio style single index.php project managament app that is open source and you can self-host.
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Drew DeVault
Korrent
No free or open source licence may restrict what the software is used for, however objectionable the use.
No such restrictions are found in free or open source software licenses, be they permissive or copyleft – all FOSS licenses permit the use of the software for any purpose without restriction.
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Drew DeVault
Korrent
Venture capital is the wrong money for an open source business, because its constraints make it hard to stay true to the mission.
The fast route — venture capital funded — is going to impose constraints on your business that will ultimately make it difficult to remain true to your open-source mission.
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Kieran Healy
GitHub
nycbabynames — Provides a tibble of popular baby names by sex, ethnicity, and year of birth in New York City, 2011–2021. Sourced from the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene via NYC Open Data.
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François Chollet
GitHub
keras-resources — Directory of tutorials and open-source code repositories for working with Keras, the Python deep learning library
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Scott Hanselman
Loved
WinMerge
WinMerge just gets better and better. It's free, it's open source and it'll compare files and folders and help you merge your conflicted source code files like a champ.
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John MacFarlane
Liked
Arq
At home on the Mac, I use a nice program called Arq, which also backs up to S3. It is not open-source, but all of the data is stored on your own S3 buckets, and there is an open-source program for retrieving it, so you…
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Brendan Gregg
x.com
New blog post: Doom GPU Flame Graphs, a fun demo of AI/GPU Flame Graphs and FlameScope, now open source
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Marc Littlemore
Uses
Rectangle — Ryan Hanson
I've just switched to Rectangle which seems to be an open-source fork of the project.
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Drew DeVault
Korrent
Maintainers of widely used open source software are not adequately funded, and that is a real and unsolved problem.
What should we do about open source maintainers not getting the funding they need? It’s a very real problem, and one Kevin has explicitly asked us to talk about before we criticise his solution to it.
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Jeffrey Paul
Uses
Wavebox — Wavebox
Wavebox — bundles Gmail and Google Calendar into a single open source app on desktop and keeps this outside browser tabs.
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Sebastian Raschka
GitHub
rasbt — I'm an AI research engineer specializing in large language models (LLMs), deep learning, and open-source development.
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David Heinemeier Hansson
Blog
The malleable computer
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Aris Ripandi
Uses
Lucide Icons
Collection of open-source icons for use in web and mobile applications. Provides a wide range of icons for various use cases.
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Yihui Xie
Mixed on
Ubuntu — Canonical
I work under Ubuntu for the most of time with open source software packages. I dislike the default Unity interface like others.
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Daniel Stenberg
GitHub
uncurled — Uncurled - everything I know and learned about running and maintaining Open Source projects for three decades.
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Kalwabed Rizki
Liked
Zen
Zen: I'm also a fan of Brave, but Zen is a great browser because it's open-source and firefox-based, but with all the customization and utilization I need.
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Frank Chimero
Korrent
The legibility of the source is one of the most important properties of the web, because it keeps the door open to the next generation.
Illegibility comes from complexity without clarity. I believe that the legibility of the source is one of the most important properties of the web. It’s the main thing that keeps the door open to independent, unmediated…
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Scott Hanselman
Loved
AutoHotKey
This little gem is bananas. It's a tiny, amazingly fast free open-source utility for Windows. It lets you automate everything from keystrokes to mice.
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Harper Reed
Loved
partychat
One of my favorite killer apps is partychat. It is an open source Jabber-based persistent chat room. It works with Google Talk and is VERY simple.
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James Brooks
GitHub
jbrooksuk — I'm James Brooks, engineering team lead at Laravel, founder of Cachet and public speaker. Founder of Cachet, the open-source status page system. Acquired in 2018, I purchased Cachet back…
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Hamel Husain
Liked
Arize Phoenix
The panel had a generally positive view of Phoenix, with one panelist calling it one of his “favorite open source eval tools.” The tool is positioned as a developer-first, notebook-centric platform.
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Simon Willison
Korrent
Demand for open-source component libraries is collapsing, because a model will write exactly the widget you want instead of one you have to customise.
Why would I use a date picker library where I'd have to customize it when I could have Claude write me the exact date picker that I want.
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Drew DeVault
Blog
What's up with FUTO?
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Simon Willison
Korrent
Open-source projects are now so flooded with junk contributions that maintainers are asking GitHub for something it has never offered: a way to switch pull requests off.
projects are flooded with junk contributions at the moment to the point that people are trying to convince GitHub to disable pull requests, which is something GitHub have never done.
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Brendan Gregg
Blog
Doom GPU Flame Graphs
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Julia Evans
Blog
A data model for Git (and other docs updates)
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Arvid Kahl
Blog
The Case Against Vendor Lock-In: Why Easy Exit Means Better Retention
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Yoshua Bengio
Korrent
Access to large-scale generalist AI systems that could be weaponized should be limited, meaning their code and neural network parameters should not be released open-source.
…would mean that the code and neural net parameters would not be shared in open-source and some of the important engineering tricks to make them work would not be shared…
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Drew DeVault
Korrent
Making a living from your own open source means running it as a business and acquiring business skills, not waiting to be funded.
And yes, you are building a business. You need to start thinking of your project as a business and of yourself as a business owner.
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Andrew Kelley
Korrent
Handing stewardship of Redis to a company whose goal is extracting profit was a mistake for the project
I think that was an unfortunate move because their goal is mainly to extract profit from the software project rather than to uphold the ideals of Free and Open Source Software.