Flirt is now Open-Source

Announcing Development on Flirt

I've started working on Flirt, which stands for "Fabulous, Legendary, Incremental Review Tool". Firstly, what is it and why might you be interested in it?

Flirt: GitHub and Mailing List backends

It's been a while since the last post. I was focused on my thesis, which I handed in on August 1st 🥳

Introducing npm i chat – One codebase, every chat platform - Vercel

Chat SDK is now open source and available in public beta. It's a TypeScript library for building chat bots that work across Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Discord, GitHub, and Linear — from a single codebase.

FediForum | Growing the Open Social Web:<br>An Online Un-Workshop

Since the Twitter takeover by Elon Musk over three years ago, the Open Social Web has been adopted by an enthusiastic community. People world-wide are building and using open social platforms and open social protocols to better interact with others online.

Open-source tools needed for the future of decentralized moderation

A small list of various open-source software that needs to exist to power the future of Trust & Safety for decentralized social networking software.

RedStar · Discord bots and open-source tooling

I'm RedStar, a developer from Italy. I maintain WolfStar, a Discord moderation bot, and build open-source TypeScript tooling for Discord apps and the web.

Robin Berjon (@robin.berjon.com)

Again, we can try to be generous. But this fits a pattern. When people found issues in their open source code, instead of fixing them they went closed source. When they had an XSS vulnerability right at launch it took over a day for them to acknowledge and close it.

Growing the Social Web

I'm going to be participating in the Growing the Open Social Web workshop at Fediforum on March 2, 2026. I'm excited to talk to other people who care about the Fediverse about ways to connect more people through ActivityPub. Fediforum invited attendees to publish position papers before the workshop. SWF has a number of hypotheses…

A big shout-out to open source

Yoast lives and breathes open source. Here Joost explains why and more. Find out who Joost's all-time open source hero is!

OpenAI Developers on Twitter / X

Today we’re announcing Open Responses: an open-source spec for building multi-provider, interoperable LLM interfaces built on top of the original OpenAI Responses API.✅ Multi-provider by default✅ Useful for real-world workflows✅ Extensible without fragmentationBuild… pic.twitter.com/SJiBFx1BOF— OpenAI Developers (@OpenAIDevs) January 15, 2026

Pippin Williamson on Building a Community Around Your Open Source Project

When Pippin Williamson launched Easy Digital Downloads in early 2012, he could not have predicted the success that the open source project is experiencing today. The core plugin is approaching half…