preserves software source code for present and future generations
Software Heritage
Software Heritage est une archive ouverte pour les codes source des logiciels. Il s’agit d’une initiative à but non lucratif impliquant plusieurs parties prenantes, lancée en 2016 par l'Inria, et soutenue par l'Unesco.
Archiving web sites
I recently took a deep dive into web site archival for friends who were worried about losing co [...]
The Case for Software Craftsmanship in the Era of Vibes
From the Zed Blog: Working toward genuine, quality software in an era where code production is not the constraint anymore.
The Vintage Technology Digital Archive
Digital Art Enters the Museum Age — Social Software
We explore code and systems as a medium for creating new forms of art. We consider "software" in an expanded sense, examining the ways that we are programmed by technology around us and the ways we can write software to make change in the world.
software rot
Software rot is generally thought of as degradation of software due to a changing environment. For example, a program written a decade ago may no longer work with new versions of the libraries it depends on because some of them have changed without retaining backwards compatibility. This kind of thinking encourages a culture where software becomes obsolete unless it is constantly maintained.
Building GhostOff and our networked, personalized software futures - Boris Mann Tech Blog
In which I agentic code Ghost to Offprint script and fall into the future of networked code sharing with Vit
Software 4.0: When Code Stops Being an Artifact
The next step in Andrej Karpathy’s Software evolution: what happens when code is generated at runtime, executed once, and never saved…
Sustaining Open Source Software
The ‘open source sustainability’ debate continues with yet-another-company relicensing their product away from an open source license to…
Preservation Initiatives - Canadian Association of Research Libraries
DPC RAM Benchmarking Project CARL’s Digital Preservation Working Group (DPWG) is facilitating a national benchmarking exercise using the Digital Preservation Coalition’s Rapid Assessment Model (DPC RAM). This project fulfills one of the main recommendations from […]
Artifacts: versioned storage that speaks Git
Give your agents, developers, and automations a home for code and data. We’ve just launched Artifacts: Git-compatible versioned storage built for agents. Create tens of millions of repos, fork from any remote, and hand off a URL to any Git client.
