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• Evidence From Outside the Company — What Works as a Portfolio and What Just Eats Time

  The weakness of work done inside a company is that it cannot be verified. It is private, it belongs to a team, and in the end it reaches people only through your own account of it. Work done outside is confirmed with a l

  2026-08-15 · 6 min read #career#side-project#portfolio#open-source#writing

• The Plugin Kernel Architecture of DeepSeek Harness — What Makes an Agent You Can Rewind

  Harness, the open source coding agent DeepSeek released, makes the model, the tools, and even the UI into plugins. But the interesting part is not the word plugin. It is two design decisions: representing every execution

  2026-08-14 · 7 min read #ai-agent#architecture#plugin-system#observability#open-source

• Open Source Worth Watching Right Now (3) Infrastructure and Databases

  Databases and infrastructure are the field where license changes and forks redrew the board. From analytics engines and embedded databases to Postgres extensions, Kubernetes operators, and IaC, this post introduces 11 op

  2026-08-12 · 5 min read #open-source#database#infrastructure#postgresql#kubernetes

• Open Source Worth Watching Right Now (5) Data and ML Pipelines

  A data pipeline is not something a single scheduler solves. Ingestion, transformation, orchestration, execution engines, the model lifecycle, and search stores have each become the territory of a different tool. This pos

  2026-08-12 · 5 min read #open-source#data-engineering#mlops#python#rust

• The Generational Shift in Languages and Runtimes — Eleven Projects Read Through Their Official EOL Notices

  Eleven languages, frameworks and runtimes with official end-of-life notices on record. Python 2, AngularJS, Vue 2, Nashorn, Java applets and Web Start, Mono, Xamarin, PhoneGap, Atom, io.js and jQuery Mobile, each split i

  2026-08-12 · 10 min read #open-source#javascript#java#python#framework

• Build Tools That Stepped Down From Default — Why Ten Frontend Toolchains Gave Up Their Place

  Ten tools that were once the default in frontend projects and are rarely picked for new ones today, organised strictly around verifiable evidence: official deprecation notices and repository archive status. Create React

  2026-08-12 · 9 min read #open-source#frontend#build-tools#deprecation#javascript

• Open Source Worth Watching Right Now (6) What Star Counts Do Not Tell You

  A star count is a popularity metric, not a risk metric. This post lays out the signals you actually have to check before you bring an open source project into production: recent commits and release cadence, issue respons

  2026-08-12 · 6 min read #open-source#governance#supply-chain#risk#devops

• Open Source Worth Watching Right Now (1) AI Agents and LLM Tooling

  The LLM application stack has split into layers: inference servers, orchestration, gateways, agents, and RAG. This post introduces 12 open source projects that are actually used at each layer, grouped by role rather than

  2026-08-12 · 6 min read #open-source#llm#ai-agent#ai-platform#rag

• The Generational Shift in Container Infrastructure — What Eleven Projects Left Behind

  Eleven projects that were once standard parts of a container infrastructure and have since been replaced, documented using only official notices and repository archive status as evidence. rkt, dockershim, Classic Swarm,

  2026-08-12 · 10 min read #open-source#kubernetes#container#docker#infrastructure

• Open Source Worth Watching Right Now (4) Observability and Security

  With observability data, volume is cost, and a security tool that never makes it into the pipeline never gets used. This post introduces 12 open source projects that have genuinely taken hold — instrumentation standards,

  2026-08-12 · 5 min read #open-source#observability#security#opentelemetry#ebpf

• Open Source Worth Watching Right Now (2) Build Tools, Editors, CLIs, and Terminals

  Work that gets repeated dozens of times a day, such as installing packages, linting, and bundling, has been rewritten in native languages, and the waiting has come down from seconds to milliseconds. This post introduces

  2026-08-12 · 5 min read #open-source#developer-tools#cli#rust#performance

• What Replaces Technology — And How to Check Whether Your Stack Sits on That Trajectory

  The final part of this series on open source projects that gave up their place. Cutting across the thirty-odd projects covered in the previous three parts, it distils five forces that replace technology: platform absorpt

  2026-08-12 · 7 min read #open-source#architecture#license#migration#governance

• The Generational Shift in Data Stores and Queues — Licenses, Forks and the Apache Attic

  Ten projects in the data layer that gave up their place or had their distribution terms changed, documented using only official announcements and Apache Attic records as evidence. The license changes at Redis, Elasticsea

  2026-08-12 · 9 min read #open-source#database#kafka#redis#elasticsearch

• Bus Factor Is Not the Number of People Who Know the Code but the Number of People Who Can Decide

  The Nixpkgs core team disbanded after ten months. In a repository with thousands of contributors, the people holding delegated decision-making authority numbered two, and when those two stepped down that jurisdiction was

  2026-08-09 · 9 min read #devops#open-source#governance#nix#supply-chain

• Why Two Projects at the Same Company Reached Opposite Conclusions on AI Contributions ♪ Listenable

  OpenJDK banned contributions made with generative AI outright in April 2026, while GraalVM, under the same Oracle umbrella, explicitly permitted the use of AI coding assistants around the same time. Both projects use the

  2026-08-09 · 8 min read #culture#open-source#ai#policy#code-review

• When Open Source Governance Breaks Down — The Ruby Central Dispute and Three Axes of Control

  On July 30, 2026, André Arko published "Ruby Central's Destructive Legacy," bringing the RubyGems repository access dispute that began in September 2025 back to the surface after ten months. This post lays out the primar

  2026-07-31 · 15 min read #open-source#governance#rubygems#supply-chain#licensing

• GCC's AI Policy and Open Source's Choice — What Is the 15-Line Boundary Actually Protecting

  On July 29, 2026, the GCC steering committee adopted the recommendations of its AI Policy Working Group. The core rule is that legally significant contributions containing or derived from LLM-generated content will not b

  2026-07-31 · 12 min read #ai#open-source#gcc#licensing#governance

• How Far Has OpenBao Actually Diverged from Vault — Tracing the Fork Through Release Notes, Up to v2.6's Namespace Sealing

  Exactly two years have passed since OpenBao's v2.0.0 GA (2024-07-17), and v2.6.0 shipped three days ago. This post sets aside the tribal framing — 'BUSL betrayal' versus 'sustainability' — and checks where the fork actua

  2026-07-17 · 10 min read #security#open-source#devops#licensing

• How MinIO Community Edition Ended — A Timeline Reconstructed from the Repository, and Where Garage, SeaweedFS, and Ceph RGW Stand Now ♪ Listenable

  On April 25, 2026 the minio/minio repository was archived on GitHub, and on July 14 the mc client repository went read-only too. There is no shortage of angry threads, but this post follows the record rather than the ang

  2026-07-17 · 14 min read #storage#object-storage#s3#minio#open-source

• Flux 2.9 and Two Years After Weaveworks — How a GitOps Project Survives Losing Its Sponsor

  When Weaveworks, the company that created Flux, shut down in early 2024, a GitHub discussion appeared asking: is the project future at risk? Two and a half years later, on 2026-06-30, Flux shipped 2.9.0. This post recons

  2026-07-17 · 12 min read #devops#gitops#fluxcd#kubernetes#open-source