A dependency refers to another piece of technology (software or hardware) a technology depends on for using. In software, "dependencies" may refer to the entire network of dependencies or just the software part of it.
Dependency Cultures - Richard Feldman | SSW 2026
reuse
Reuse means the use of a piece of technology for new purposes, often ones that were never envisioned by the original designers. Reusability refers to design that makes reuse possible.
Package Managers Need to Cool Down
A survey of dependency cooldown support across package managers and update tools.
operating system
An operating system is a piece of software that most crucially handles the interoperability between hardware and software as well as between different software programs.
hardware
Hardware refers to the material parts of computing equipment, in contrast to software.
Drips | Fund Open Source In Your Ecosystem
Drips is the easiest way to fund Open Source in your ecosystem. Fund your dependencies with built-in dependency splitting, run RetroPGF rounds, and achieve any
Fediverse projects - Join the Fediverse
Fediverse projects are the different software parts of the Fediverse. Many of them are replacements for better-known social media platforms.
Open Source is a cost-allocation system
Because the right to use the software is not tied to payment, the license does not connect the people who benefit, the people who decide, and the people who bear the costs. Projects have to build those connections deliberately through governance.
Prosperous Software Movement | Open Source Observer
Bringing sustainable funding to public goods by revenue-sharing towards dependencies
Turn Dependabot Off
I recommend turning Dependabot off and replacing it with a pair of scheduled GitHub Actions, one running govulncheck, and the other running CI against the latest version of your dependencies.
A Taxonomy for Open Source Software
I’m working on a structured taxonomy for classifying open source projects across multiple dimensions: domain, role, technology, audience, layer, and function.
frugal.systems → pablo somonte ruano
frugal.systems es Pablo Somonte Ruano. Tecnólogo interesado en la intersección entre programación, diseño, investigación y sociedad. Su práctica explora los sistemas generativos, las imágenes en movimiento, la participación, el software libre, la criptografía y las redes p2p. A través del desarrollo de software y hardware experimental su trabajo aborda temas como la violencia estructural, la propiedad intelectual, la transferencia de valor, los sistemas de representación y el lenguaje.
Open source is a restaurant
[[Chad Whitacre]] makes a great analogy around when/how software gets paid for, vs food. Open Source is a restaurant. At a restaurant, you eat your meal fir...
Chapter 1. Introduction
Free software — open source software[3] — has become the backbone of modern information technology. It runs on your phone, on your laptop and desktop computers, and in embedded microcontrollers for household appliances, automobiles, industrial machinery and countless other devices that we too often forget even have software. Open source is especially prevalent on the servers that provide online services on the Internet. Every time you send an email, visit a web site, or call up some information on your smartphone, a significant portion of the activity is handled by open source software.
