Posts from NLnet Labs, the maker of open-source internet infrastructure software such as Unbound, NSD and Routinator. Readers get first-hand accounts of security audits, regulatory impact on open source, and how AI affects maintaining critical software.
Website: https://blog.nlnetlabs.nl/
Weekly digest of Simon Willison's blog covering hands-on experiments with LLMs and coding agents, event live blogs, and short notes on new releases and tools. Readers get practical write-ups of what he built, what he learned, and roundups of links, quotes and open source 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.
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.
Phoenix R&D, the team behind the OpenMLS implementation of the Messaging Layer Security protocol, publishes technical posts on secure messaging. Readers get audit results, protocol explanations, and experimental designs such as DMLS and a TLS-MLS hybrid.
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