







It seems odd to be writing an article about Debian packaging in 2024 when it dates back to 1993; some 30 years ago. But… I tried to follow…
Paying (some) Debian developers
In an offshoot of the Debian discussion we looked at last week, the Debian project has been dis [...]
Invasion of The Ethical Licenses
About 23 years ago, I created the Debian Free Software Guidelines to help the Debian developers decide what software was permissible to include in Debian, which aspired to be 100% Free Software, and what should be consigned to a "non-free" repository upon which Debian would never depend. Nine months later, those guidelines became the Open Source Definition, and I announced Open Source to the world.

What happened to custom ROMs?
snapshot.debian.org
The snapshot archive is a wayback machine that allows access to old packages based on dates and version numbers. It consists of all past and current packages the Debian archive provides.


Another year: 2025
For the last ten years on Christmas Day I've written a retrospective on the past year. This year's is a public post.

32 Years of New York Times Website Design History - 23 Images - Version Museum
A comprehensive visual history of New York Times from 1994 to 2026. See a gallery of the New York Times evolution from the beginning to present day.

The Curious About Everything Newsletter #60
The many interesting things I read in February 2026

Ten years of Kubuntu
Kubuntu will turn ten years old this April. Kubuntu is a Linux distribution that has tried to [...]
Direnv - Pixi
Pixi Documentation — Next-gen package manager for reproducible development setups
This Month in Redox - September 2025 - Redox - Your Next(Gen) OS
The Redox official website
Welcome to 2026!
Hello Handmade Network, and happy new year! 2025 was a relatively quiet year for us where we focus…
