Tag: Supply Chain
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The Loader Economy: How Initial Access Brokers Work
The loader economy is the supply chain of ransomware. Initial access brokers buy the footholds, sell the footholds, and let the ransomware crews focus on the encryption. Here is how it works in 2026.
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The Open Source Maintainer Burnout Crisis
Open source maintainer burnout is not a new problem, but in 2026 it is hitting a structural wall. The maintainers of the libraries that everything else depends on are the ones most likely to be working for free, on a project they started ten years ago, while a Fortune 500 company ships their work without…
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When Self Hosting Makes Sense, and When It Doesn’t
The self hosting decision has been the decision the developer community has been making for years, the decision the enterprise has started making again. The SaaS subscription the developer no longer trusts, the SaaS the developer can now host, the SaaS the developer is now running on the home server.
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Building Software in Your Spare Time, Sustainably
The spare time software project has been the backbone of the modern stack. The project the maintainer built on the weekend, the project the maintainer has been maintaining alone, the project the industry has been depending on for free, the project that is one burnout away from the deprecated notice.
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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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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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The Phishing Test Everyone Failed
A simulated phishing email sent to every employee at a mid sized company, the email was a fake package delivery notification, the link went to a fake login page. The click rate was 17 percent. The interesting part is who clicked.
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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.