Tag: Open Source
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The Most Useful Open Source Projects You Haven’t Heard Of
A field guide to the open source projects that are doing the real work in 2026, with the projects the trade press does not cover, the projects the enterprises are quietly depending on, and the part about the maintainer burnout.
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The Quiet Death of the Cron Job
The cron job sits as the piece of infrastructure the operations team forgot about. The job that runs at 3am, the job that nobody has read in five years, the job that does the critical thing the production system depends on, the job that will break the production system when the server it runs on…
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Self Hosting Email Is a Masochism Game
A field guide to self hosting email in 2026, with what the protocols look like, what the deliverability is going to look like, and the honest answer about whether the game is worth the candle.
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LLMs Are Still Mostly Plagiarism With Better Punctuation
The training data is still mostly text written by humans, the loss function is still mostly next token prediction, and the result is still mostly text that looks like the training data, rearranged, smoothed, and served with the confidence of a system that does not know it is rearranging.
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Why the Open Source Sustainability Question Is the Question
The open source sustainability question has been the question the industry has been postponing for a decade. The question the maintainer burnout, the xz utils near miss, the Log4Shell, the SolarWinds have all made impossible to postpone any longer. The question that will define the next decade of software.