Eventbrite to be acquired by Bending Spoons for $500M | LinkedIn

The ticketing and events platform will become a privately-held company upon the closure of the deal.

A New Home for Meetup - Meetup Blog

Meetup will soon be welcomed into the Bending Spoons portfolio of digital technology products. In this post, the Bending Spoons CEO, Luca Ferrari, discusses the acquisition.

Bending Spoons buys automation platform Airtable for $1.28bn

Italy’s Bending Spoons has agreed to buy US automation company Airtable in its first acquisition deal since going public last month.

Why we’re expanding the openRxiv Labs Curvenote Reader experiment

Read on for early results and what we’ll be looking at in the next phase.

Five Interesting Indie Platforms You Might Not Have Heard Of

After deleting my corporate social media accounts, I've discovered five interesting indie platforms and online communities you might not have heard of: Special Fish, Ctrl + Shift + 3, web1.0 Hosting, Pillowfort, and Blue Dwarf. A look at what makes each unique, from brutalist design to old-device accessibility, and a call to support the independent web financially.

Introducing Sponsorware: How A Small Open Source Package Increased My Salary By $11k in Two Days

<p>After digging deep on SQLite during a pair programming session with a client/friend, I had an idea…</p> <p>About 45 minutes later, a proo...

OpenRxiv & Curvenote’s new Reader launch took to the stage at FORCE11 2026

At FORCE11 2026, Curvenote showcased the newly launched Curvenote Reader deployed over all of openRxiv to enthusiastic feedback from scientific publishing leaders — with callouts on the innovation from the opening and closing keynotes as a meaningful step forward for open science.

Pocketstars: The creator site where payments don’t always happen

With the influx of creator sites such as Onlyfans, rivals have been popping up everywhere. However, all are not equal and it’s vital that…

Notesnook | Open source & zero knowledge private note taking app

Express yourself with freedom, no spying, no tracking — only private notes. Unlike Evernote and other note apps, your data is private — not open for everyone to see.

Stacktracer's Dev Shrine

Surfing the IndieWeb is fun! Like many people my age (old millenial here, to be specific), I miss the Internet of the 90's and early 2000's. Until a couple of years age I thought it was gone for good. Luckily, I was wrong. The small web is all about non-corporate homepages and websites made by individuals. I won't go into details on why this is cool. For now, let me just point you in the right direction so you can see for yourself.

Lab Notes #004: Semble Updates - Notifications, Provenance and Indie Integrations - Cosmik Labs

Spreading good attention karma with new Semble notifications and provenance, and some cool indie Semble integrations

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