A Year of Work on the ALPM Project: 15 Months of Rust-based Package Tools
TL;DR The Sovereign Tech Fund supported 15 months of development on the ALPM project, producing a set of Rust libraries,…
Kodbox: Open-source web desktop with multi-cloud storage and web IDE
TL;DR Kodbox is an open-source, self-hosted web file manager and integrated web IDE that supports multi-cloud mounting and in-browser code…
Ferrite: Rust Markdown editor with native Mermaid diagram rendering
TL;DR Ferrite is a lightweight editor written in Rust and built on egui that edits Markdown, JSON, YAML and TOML…
Bob Weir, Grateful Dead Co‑Founder and Guitarist, Dies at 78 — 60-Year Career
TL;DR Bob Weir, co‑founder, singer and guitarist of the Grateful Dead, has died at 78, his family said. They said…
Study: Private equity bought over 500 U.S. autism therapy centers in 10 years
TL;DR A Brown University study found private equity firms owned 574 autism therapy centers across 42 states as of 2024,…
GlyphLang: an AI-first programming language designed for LLM tokenization
TL;DR GlyphLang is a programming language created to be generated by large language models rather than authored primarily by humans.…
Code and Let Live — Persistent ‘Sprites’ Replace Ephemeral Sandboxes
TL;DR Fly.io is pitching a different approach to running code for AI agents: durable, fast-to-create virtual machines called Sprites that…
Org Mode Syntax: A Practical, Consistent Lightweight Markup for Text
TL;DR A long-running blog entry argues that Org mode's markup is intuitive, consistent and more interoperable than the many dialects…
Tux Paint: Free, open-source drawing app for kids on many platforms
TL;DR Tux Paint is a free, open-source drawing program designed for children roughly ages 3–12, offering a simple interface, sound…