linkhut
A bookmarking service that is OpenSource and also apparently API-compatible with Pinboard.
HN: Lessons I learned from working full-time on a FOSS project for 503 days
A submission to HackerNews of Rodrigo's blog post about working at and on Textual. What's pretty funny in the comments is the speculation about how Textualize would make money, which shows that some folk were speculating on the post without actually having read it.
So nothing new for HN there.
vygr/ChrysaLisp: Parallel OS, with GUI, Terminal, OO Assembler, Class libraries, C-Script compiler, Lisp interpreter and more...
A Lisp-based operating system that can be run on many machines, and under the "main" OS.
A Microcosm of the interactions in Open Source projects
Some background on how the xz backdoor situation arose.
Open Source Maintainers Owe You Nothing
A reminder that FOSS project developers owe you nothing, at least under the license. The only way you're ever owned anything is if they've directly contracted them.
503 days working full-time on FOSS: lessons learned
Rodrigo's history of working at Textualize, mention of the layoffs, and what he learned during the time.
Everything I know about the XZ backdoor
A timeline of the events in the creation of the xz backdoor.
The disappointing tea.xyz
Another week, another example of crypto spoiling things. Imagine the worst parts of Hacktoberfest only with added crypto. Yeah, it's that bad.
Monetizing Open-source is problematic
Some background on the faker.js (and colours.js) situation.
Browse good first issues to start contributing to open source - The GitHub Blog
Github are doing more to make it easier to find good issues to get you into contributing to projects. I like this idea and should make a point of looking at the possible contributions of projects I make use of a lot.