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Discover independently developed software reimplementations. Everything can be remade.

On folders, broken links, and Bill Gates' biggest mistake
Files and folders are holding us back. There has to be a better way.
Refactoring OSD: draft of OSD 1.99 - HackMD
# Refactoring OSD: draft of OSD 1.99 This is mirrored to GitHub for versioning purposes, but (to th

Relicensing with AI-assisted rewrite
Exploring the chardet v7.0.0 controversy: Can an AI rewrite legally 'launder' a library from LGPL to MIT?
Not just development, distribution of software may change as well - <antirez>
Introducing Patchwork-26
Redesigning source control at Anthropic
As our merges per day grew more than tenfold, source control became our biggest development bottleneck. Here, we share how we migrated to an in-house version control system in five months.

A plan for open source software maintainers
It seems to me that this is a case where problems are in fact solutions to other problems. To wit:
Software Is Made Between Commits
From the Zed Blog: Agents turned the conversation into the real source of our software. DeltaDB is the version control built for it.
The next wave in software is open adoption software | TechCrunch
There’s a big shift happening in how enterprises buy and deploy software. In the last few years, open technology -- software that is open to change and free to adopt -- has gone from the exception to the rule for most enterprises. We’ve seen the IT stack redrawn atop powerful open-source projects, with developers opting for an “open-first” approach to building solutions.

morluto/rea
Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries.


Don't fork the ecosystem
Software can be rebuilt, because software is a machine. But a software ecosystem is not a machine. It is a living system.

Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps
Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools
getartcraft.com