Create searchable Bluesky bookmarks with R
The Bluesky social network is seeping into the mainstream, thanks in part to people unhappy with changes at X (formerly Twitter). “It’s not some untouched paradise, but it’s got a spark of something refreshing,” Jan Beger, global head of AI Ad...
FAQ: Getting started with Bluesky
What is Bluesky? Bluesky is a “microblogging” social media network similar to X (formerly Twitter), where people can publish posts with a maximum of 300 characters, as well as follow others, create lists, like posts, and so on. “Similar to Twitt...
Enterprise-grade caching with Azure Managed Redis
Microsoft has made a lot of big bets in its preferred cloud-native infrastructure. You only need to look at .NET Aspire and Radius to see how the company thinks you should be designing and building code: a growing cloud-native stack that builds on Kub...
Go 1.24 brings full support for generic type aliases
Go 1.24, a planned update to Google‘s popular open-source programming language, has reached the release candidate stage. Expected to arrive in February 2025, the release brings full support for generic type aliases, along with the ability to track e...
Getting started with Azure Managed Redis
Microsoft has made a lot of big bets in its preferred cloud-native infrastructure. You only need to look at .NET Aspire and Radius to see how the company thinks you should be designing and building code: a growing cloud-native stack that builds on Kub...
Mozilla Increased Revenue in 2023, But Search Cash Fell
Mozilla’s overall revenue saw a sizeable boost in 2023, despite a drop in income from its lucrative search engine deals. According to its latest financial report, Mozilla’s revenue in 2023 hit ~$653 million (US), up from ~$593 million in 2022. The ...
Mozilla Revenue Jumped in 2023, But Search Deal Cash Fell
Mozilla’s overall revenue saw a sizeable boost in 2023, despite a drop in income from its lucrative search engine deals. According to its latest financial report, Mozilla’s revenue in 2023 hit ~$653 million (US), up from ~$593 million in 2022. The ...
Thanks again to our outgoing sponsor: OS-SCi
We’re grateful for our weekly sponsor, OpenSource Science B.V., an educational institution focused on Open Source software. OS-SCi is training the next generation FOSS engineers, by using Open Source technologies and philosophy in a project learning ...
POSIX conformance testing for the Redox signals project
The Redox team has received a grant from NLnet to develop Redox OS Unix-style Signals, moving the bulk of signal management to userspace, and making signals more consistent with the POSIX concepts of signaling for processes and threads. It also incl...
Understanding the State of Open Source Funding in 2024
We’ve long understood that people are the engine that powers open source. Prior research has found different ways to measure the value, aggregate investment, or cost to rebuild open source. Yet, the state of actual open source investment has remaine...
