This is a list of weird little guys in the free software movement and adjacent spaces. Request additions, removals, or changes via email; patches welcome.
Ten FOSS Development Fallacies For User Facing Software
This is a list, inspired by the Five Geek Social Fallacies, of common patterns or behaviours that developers of free/open source software (FOSS) fall into when they try to develop software for users who are not technical, or for whom non-technical users would be the most obvious userbase. Hopefully writing these down (which frankly is cathartic more than anything) is helpful to some in recognising these thought patterns and avoiding them when developing software - I’ve got some of my own thoughts on this at the bottom.
Glassworm Returns: Invisible Unicode Malware Found in 150+ GitHub Repositories
The Glassworm supply chain attack is back. Researchers uncovered malware hidden in invisible Unicode characters across 150+ GitHub repositories, plus npm packages and VS Code extensions.
Histomat of F/OSS: We should reclaim LLMs, not reject them
A few days ago, I came across a blog post titled On FLOSS and training LLMs that articulates a growing frustration within the free and open source software…
Tiny Tool Town 🏘️
A delightful showcase for free, fun & open source tiny tools. Stupid-delightful software made with love.
Weird netizens — Open Indie
It's been a year since I wrote about Weird web pages as a prospective catalyst for the reclamation of my digital identity. There's been s...
Blaine Cook
Hi! I'm Blaine, a software programmer living in the Slocan Valley who works on decentralized technologies (<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability">this</a> kind, not that kind) in order to give communities the autonomy to self-determine in online spaces.
This Web Tool Sabotages AI Chatbots By Making Them Really, Really Slow
Artist Sam Lavigne created ‘Slow LLM’ to make people question their dependence on tools like Claude and ChatGPT. Or at least, make them super annoying to use.
ua-hacks/apps/experimental-iwa-controlledframe-tldraw/test_app/src at main · ua-community/ua-hacks
Prototypes focused on our active research areas at User & Agents. - ua-community/ua-hacks
there's 180?!?! of them listed here, not including general tools or bsky clients (those are separate collections). some are beta, alpha, or pre-release i also have a bsky list of apps/orgs that have accounts in my profile too. and @proto feed shows their posts + relevant posts from devs+enthusiasts
atmosphere-apps (by Ariel M. (she/her)) — Semble
semble.soShitty software
The Quiet Decision Microsoft Made That Devastated Thousands of Nonprofits
Comcast adds motion sensing to millions of its newer routers, with a privacy catch | TechCrunch
And as a commenter welcomes, guess who just welcomed Andrew Tate onboard? Yep, Substack.
DO NOT BUY: LG’s Spyware TVs, Monitors, and Wiretapping Concerns
We found a website you can’t leave
Sony erases digital content from libraries; we're reminded we don’t own what we buy
