June 18, 2008
reddit goes open source
Reddit release (most of) the source for the site, allowing anyone to host their own reddit. Excellent video announcement from the mascot too.
May 30, 2008
TypePad AntiSpam
SixApart launch an Akismet-compatible anti-comment-spam system, with a GPL’d open-source backend available for customized installs. I’ve tweaked my blog to run it, so we’ll see how it does.
February 6, 2008
TrueCrypt - Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software
The excellent TrueCrypt now runs on OS X, as well as Windows and Linux. I’ll definitely be shunting some of my files onto an encrypted thumbdrive later.
November 6, 2007
August 20, 2007
August 3, 2007
Welcome to Hadoop!
Open-source project to allow the creation of massive massively-parallelized systems. I’m so glad my CompSci course taught me about parallel programming in 1997, because it’s only going to become more important.
Ohloh, the open source network
Open-source-software social network, tracking both projects and people.
June 21, 2007
Implementing Silverlight in 21 Days - Miguel de Icaza
Wow! The Mono team produced an open-source implementation of MS’s Flash-killer(TM) in 21 days.
June 5, 2007
movabletype.org: Welcome to MTOS: the Movable Type Open Source Project
MovableType to be GPLed. I’ll take “Two Years Too Late” for $400, please, Alex.
May 7, 2007
MogileFS
Open-source distributed filesystem from Brad Fitzpatrick. Looks to be as wicked-cool and game-changing as memcached.
May 6, 2007
MailActOn
Plugin for Apple Mail which allows you to quickly tag/file/act-on your emails with a couple of keystrokes. I’d been looking for something like this for a while.
May 1, 2007
January 4, 2007
Wormux
Open source Worms-a-like. Far too many of my student hours were taken up playing “Worms 2” against my flatmates. Admittedly, most of that time was taken up by giggling as we named our worms things like “Sean Is A Virgin” and “Jim’s Cock”, but I think the game was fun too.
January 2, 2007
October 10, 2006
Open Source madness!
Good commentary of the unpleasantness that’s about to unfold with this Firefox/Iceweasel fork. The two new “features” which will now ship with Debian, Ubuntu, et al are just the tip of an iceberg of confusion and incompatibility.
April 5, 2006
DOSBox, a x86 emulator with DOS
Tool for running olde DOS games (Soundblaster emulation and all) in Windows/Linux/OSX. I’ll have to try getting “Jones In The Fast Lane” up and running with it.
March 19, 2006
Darik’s Boot and Nuke
Bootdisk that fits on a 1.44Mb floppy which securely nukes every scrap of data off of hard drives. Handy to have if you’re about to sell an old computer.
December 28, 2005
TrueCrypt - Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows XP/2000 and Linux
Open-source whole-disk encryption package for Windows. Perfect for keeping your USB keychain drive safe from prying eyes.
November 27, 2005
November 2, 2005
Producing Open Source Software
Free ebook on the hows and wherefores of running an open source project, from someone who’s been round the block a couple of times.
BBC Olinda digital radio: Social hardware
Schulze & Webb are working on an open, social digital-radio-plus-wifi prototype for the BBC. Fascinating the way they hope to apply “open source” to hardware design.