This newsletter offers practical guidance for developers building open source software for education, accessibility, security, and civic use. Each issue covers a focused topic such as recognizing contributors, choosing supported platforms, or writing helpful error messages.
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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.
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.
Long-form technical posts by Ember.js co-creator Yehuda Katz on the development of Ember and its Polaris edition. Readers get insider explanations of design decisions, in-progress work and practical code examples.
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