A developer's blog about building and maintaining open source software, including announcements of his own projects such as Roughpad and Alfred. It also offers explanatory essays on how open source works and how to start contributing.
Website: https://amilajack.com/
Weekly digest of Simon Willison's blog covering hands-on experiments with AI coding agents and LLMs, plus links, quotations, releases and tools. Readers get first-hand write-ups of building projects with AI, event live blogs and commentary on new model releases.
Developer blog on building OpenMU, an open-source MMORPG game server, covering architecture decisions, performance work and new features. Readers get detailed engineering write-ups with code-level reasoning and measured results.
The blog of NLnet Labs, an open-source steward behind DNS, BGP and RPKI software such as Unbound, NSD and Routinator. It covers regulation like the EU Cyber Resilience Act, security audits, and how AI is changing open-source maintenance.
Different Shelf is an essay newsletter that follows plausible-sounding software and organisational ideas, such as monorepos, InnerSource and developer tooling, until their practical consequences emerge. Readers get detailed, first-person accounts of real engineering investigations alongside structured arguments about how companies coordinate software work.
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