We're so happy to annouce that we have an open source design devroom and we're now accepting calls for talks via the FOSDEM pretalx system.

Open Source Design has been part of FOSDEM for over a decade now, making sure designers who work with, or contribute to free, libre and open source software (FLOSS) a platform to share their ideas.

Call for participation details and link here:
https://opensourcedesign.net/2025/10/01/fosdem-cfp-2026​

#opensource #fosdem26 #opensourcedesign #design #oss #fosdem #cfp

Status of reproductible Builds for open source Messengers (Matrix, Session, Signal, Telegram...) - Project by BarbossHack #OSS #Infosec https://github.com/BarbossHack/reproducible

Status of reproductible Builds for open source Messengers (Matrix, Session, Signal, Telegram...) - Project by BarbossHack #OSS #Infosec https://github.com/BarbossHack/reproducible

Open source developers are facing severe burnout: unpaid work, toxic communities, and hyper-responsibility are pushing maintainers to the brink ⚠️
73% report burnout; 60% considered leaving.

Companies relying on OSS must fund, respect, and support maintainers to sustain critical infrastructure 🛠️

🔗 https://itsfoss.com/news/open-source-developers-are-exhausted/

#TechNews #OpenSource #OSS #Developer #Burnout #Privacy #DigitalRights #Community #Software #FOSS #WorkplaceWellness #Sustainability #TechPolicy #CyberSecurity #Innovation

📢 Bending Emacs Episode 7 🙃

https://youtu.be/M6o1N2kfmuc

#emacs #foss #oss #macos #windows #linux #gnu #ricing #rice #unixporn #unix

Here it is. Wasabi's first (early) release

A native Emacs interface for WhatsApp messaging

https://xenodium.com/whatsapp-from-you-know-where

#whatsapp #oss #foss #macos #linux #neovim #nvim #vim

The Bending Emacs series continues with Episode 6!

https://youtu.be/93wWCroTKnM

#emacs #foss #oss #macos #windows #linux #gnu #ricing #rice #unixporn

📢 Bending Emacs Episode 7 🙃

https://youtu.be/M6o1N2kfmuc

#emacs #foss #oss #macos #windows #linux #gnu #ricing #rice #unixporn #unix

Open source developers are facing severe burnout: unpaid work, toxic communities, and hyper-responsibility are pushing maintainers to the brink ⚠️
73% report burnout; 60% considered leaving.

Companies relying on OSS must fund, respect, and support maintainers to sustain critical infrastructure 🛠️

🔗 https://itsfoss.com/news/open-source-developers-are-exhausted/

#TechNews #OpenSource #OSS #Developer #Burnout #Privacy #DigitalRights #Community #Software #FOSS #WorkplaceWellness #Sustainability #TechPolicy #CyberSecurity #Innovation

Salvatore Sanfilippo (creator of Redis, and more) published a beautiful video inspired by my latest blog post. I was really pleased! It's in Italian, but auto-generated English audio track is available.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNqbKEx2mBM

#ITNotes #Linux #OpenSource #OSS #OpenSource

The Bending Emacs series continues with Episode 6!

https://youtu.be/93wWCroTKnM

#emacs #foss #oss #macos #windows #linux #gnu #ricing #rice #unixporn

Here it is. Wasabi's first (early) release

A native Emacs interface for WhatsApp messaging

https://xenodium.com/whatsapp-from-you-know-where

#whatsapp #oss #foss #macos #linux #neovim #nvim #vim

@Codeberg

Suppose I want to find an interesting project to contribute to on Codeberg. How's that done?

I assume something like this would be nice:
- search through all issues
- restrict to "help wanted" or similar issue labels
- filter by projects implemented mainly in programming language ...

This does not exist, afaict. Or does it?

#codeberg #openSource #oss #programming

We should all be using dependency cooldowns

https://blog.yossarian.net/2025/11/21/We-should-all-be-using-dependency-cooldowns

#security #oss

Im Dezember:
„Unser täglich Google gib uns heute!“ – Die Nachhaltigkeit digitaler Werkzeuge bewerten

Im Januar:
„Wer teilt gewinnt!“ – Wie Freie Software zur nachhhaltigen Digitalisierung beiträgt.

In Kooperation mit
Bundesverein zur Förderung des Genossenschaftsgedankens e.V.
Haus des Engagements e.V.
Hostsharing eG | @hostsharing
Kooperative Commown SCIC
Netzwerk Solidarische Landwirtschaft e.V. | @solawi
Zentralverband deutscher Konsumgenossenschaften e.V.

#floss #oss #nachhaltigkeit

We should all be using dependency cooldowns

https://blog.yossarian.net/2025/11/21/We-should-all-be-using-dependency-cooldowns

#security #oss

Im Dezember:
„Unser täglich Google gib uns heute!“ – Die Nachhaltigkeit digitaler Werkzeuge bewerten

Im Januar:
„Wer teilt gewinnt!“ – Wie Freie Software zur nachhhaltigen Digitalisierung beiträgt.

In Kooperation mit
Bundesverein zur Förderung des Genossenschaftsgedankens e.V.
Haus des Engagements e.V.
Hostsharing eG | @hostsharing
Kooperative Commown SCIC
Netzwerk Solidarische Landwirtschaft e.V. | @solawi
Zentralverband deutscher Konsumgenossenschaften e.V.

#floss #oss #nachhaltigkeit

Can you grieve a #programming or #oss contribution?

Sigh. I think I'm going to have to give up on my attempt to port "NextSpace" -- a #Next like UI + file browser + Apps to #freebsd because of non-firing dispatch queues.

If anyone has expertise here can can unstick me, I"ll tilt at the windmill again, but for right now I'm stymied and am using LLMs as a crutch to punch above my weight class (thoughtfully).

https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace/issues/506

The bad news was:

```
=================================================
CFFileDescriptor Test
=================================================
Thread: 0x186ad387f008

[SETUP] Created pipe: read_fd=3, write_fd=4
[SETUP] CFFileDescriptorRef created: 0x186ad3c2d000
[SETUP] Enabled read callbacks
[SETUP] CFRunLoopSource created: 0x186ad3c2d100
[SETUP] Current runloop: 0x186ad3c3b000
[SETUP] Source added to runloop in default mode

✗✗✗ TEST FAILED ✗✗✗
CFFileDescriptor callbacks DID NOT FIRE
This matches the problem described in SYNCHRONIZE.md
```

Just can't get there today...

🆕 blog! “The Peaceful Transfer of Power in Open Source Projects”

Most of the people who run Open Source projects are mortal. Recent history shows us that they will all eventually die, or get bored, or win the lottery, or get sick, or be conscripted, or lose their mind.

If you've ever visited a foreign country's national history museum, I…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/the-peaceful-transfer-of-power-in-open-source-projects/
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#BDFL #mastodon #OpenSource #oss