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09
Sep

The Open Source Ward Weekly (9 September 2025)

This has been a calm week for the open-source ecosystem, so the newsletter will be quite short this time. Enjoy!
2 min read
04
Sep

The Indie Dev Outshining Tech Giants on GitHub

Recently, I was browsing the top GitHub organizations, and something quickly caught my attention. Who the fuck is Sindre Sorhus?
3 min read
02
Sep

The Open Source Ward Weekly (2 September 2025)

The best of Github System Prompt Leaks - In the mind of ChatGPT A collection of system message instructions for
3 min read
26
Aug

The Open Source Ward Weekly (26 August 2025)

Airi - You self-hosted Grok Waifu companion Nothing else to say, everything is in the title. It’s the most
3 min read
20
Aug

OSS Under Attack: Four Lessons in How Trust Gets Exploited

People love free stuff! - Me August 2025 That applies to software as well, and thanks to countless open-source contributors,
4 min read
19
Aug

The Open Source Ward Weekly (19 August 2025)

Kiss Translator - A simple bilingual translation extension I'm currently planning a trip to Japan, and this trending
4 min read
12
Aug

The Open Source Ward Weekly (12 August 2025)

The AI race continues. Last week, OpenAI released two open-source models alongside GPT-5, and Claude released Opus 4.1. Many
3 min read
07
Aug

Why Did OpenAI Just Open-Sourced Two Models?

Seriously why ? Earlier this week on Tuesday the 5th, OpenAI released two open-source models [1], gpt-oss-120B and gpt-oss-29B. And honestly?
2 min read
05
Aug

The Open Source Ward Weekly (05 August 2025)

CopyParty Transform any device into a file server with resumable uploads and downloads. It's really easy to use,
3 min read
29
Jul

The Open Source Ward Weekly (29 July 2025)

Github Trendings Resume Matcher I believe it’s clear to anyone working in tech that the job market is facing
4 min read