Doing Things Worst
People always seem to want to do things well, and when they fail, they tend to blame their tools. So it should come as no surprise that programmers, being somewhat similar to people (and being generally bad at what they do), have a long…

The world is growing tired of yaml. Alternative configuration formats are making the rounds. Toml has steadily been gaining traction, in part due to tools like Cargo and adoption in the Python standard library. Json supersets (with comments, commas, and the…

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This is a question the predident of the DSF was asked at FOSDEM after his talk. Let's try (very hard) to NOT answer it because... Do we really need a 3rd party app to write an API with Django?

HTTP supports response compression, which can significantly reduce the size of responses, thereby decreasing bandwidth usage and load times for users. It’s a cheap and valuable technique for improving website performance.

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Full-throttle, wire-speed hardware implementation of Wireguard VPN, using low-cost Artix7 FPGA with opensource toolchain. If you seek security and privacy, nothing is private in our codebase. Our d...

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Here's a trick to reveal a debugger value in the memory profiler.

Get details on our discovery of a critical vulnerability in GitHub Copilot Chat.

Git developers have been talking in recent weeks around release plans for Git 3.0

Strudel is a music live coding environment for the browser, porting the TidalCycles pattern language to JavaScript.

Sometimes, after a few pints in a respectable gathering of Rubyists, someone will ask me “what is the most undervalued module in the Ruby standard library?” There are many possible answers, of course, and some favoritism is to be expected. Piotr Szotkowski…

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The pendulum is about to swing the other direction

Recently, I had to write a Django migration to update hundreds of thousands of database objects. With some paper-napkin math I calculated that I can fit all the necessary data in memory, making the migration much simpler than it would have been otherwise.

My latest reflections on SailfishOS as of September 2025. UI brilliance, ecosystem struggles, and what Jolla needs to do next.

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