Practices, methodologies, lifecycle
A charity organisation needed synchronized radio playback across all listeners without budget for Icecast or WebRTC. The solution: schedule-driven MP3 serving with client-side offset calculations using PHP, JavaScript, and MySQL. It's clever, but it won't scale.
Music Sharity addresses the streaming silo problem - convert links between Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, YouTube Music, and Tidal without handing over listening data. Built on Flutter, uses the Odesli API, and works offline. No iOS version yet.
Sklad, an open-source snippet manager built with Rust and Tauri v2, promises offline-first operation with AES-256 encryption. The project highlights Tauri's positioning against Electron for security-focused desktop tools, though minimal GitHub traction (3 stars, zero forks) suggests niche appeal in a space dominated by IDE extensions.
A public transit digital sign exposed a familiar enterprise problem: Linux systems fail publicly, and finding someone who can troubleshoot them is harder than it should be. The bus company's solution? Turn the screen off.
A charity organisation needed synchronized radio playback across all listeners without budget for Icecast or WebRTC. The solution: schedule-driven MP3 serving with client-side offset calculations using PHP, JavaScript, and MySQL. It's clever, but it won't scale.
Music Sharity addresses the streaming silo problem - convert links between Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, YouTube Music, and Tidal without handing over listening data. Built on Flutter, uses the Odesli API, and works offline. No iOS version yet.
Sklad, an open-source snippet manager built with Rust and Tauri v2, promises offline-first operation with AES-256 encryption. The project highlights Tauri's positioning against Electron for security-focused desktop tools, though minimal GitHub traction (3 stars, zero forks) suggests niche appeal in a space dominated by IDE extensions.
A public transit digital sign exposed a familiar enterprise problem: Linux systems fail publicly, and finding someone who can troubleshoot them is harder than it should be. The bus company's solution? Turn the screen off.
A decade-old hobbyist site cataloging juggling patterns with siteswap notation and JugglingLab animations remains on indefinite hiatus since June 2015. The juggling community has largely shifted to video documentation platforms and modern sharing tools, though the static archive continues hosting its collection of trick tutorials and mathematical pattern encoding.
A community wiki preserves Commodore's 1990 AT&T Unix port for Amiga hardware - a commercial failure that shipped around 1,000 beta units before Commodore's 1994 collapse. The project highlights early challenges porting Unix to consumer hardware, now emulatable via WinUAE since 2013.
Europe's largest open-source conference shifted focus from vendor convenience to community-controlled infrastructure. The 25-year-old event showcased 1,079 sessions across 71 tracks, with notable emphasis on FreeBSD, minimal BSD systems, and decentralized networking—signaling enterprise interest in sovereign tech stacks.
A minimal 128-bit unsigned integer implementation using carry/borrow/multiply intrinsics generates assembly identical to compiler builtins. For CTOs facing precision requirements in geometry, finance, or crypto workloads, fixed-width types offer predictable performance without abstraction overhead—the foundation scales cleanly to 256 or 512 bits.
A 2018 script shows how rsync's --link-dest option creates space-efficient snapshots for Linux servers, using hardlinks instead of full copies. Enterprise teams get browseable backups without vendor dependency, but manual restore testing remains critical.
ZDNET's list of essential free Windows apps hits familiar territory: Brave, VLC, ShareX, WPS Office, Todoist. The real question for enterprise teams isn't which apps, but how you deploy them - manual installs don't scale past your first machine.
Adventure Game Studio, the open-source point-and-click game engine launched in 1997, released patch 3.6.2-P6 in early 2026. The Windows IDE exports to Linux, macOS, iOS, and Android without subscriptions—a model that's kept thousands of indie games shipping for nearly three decades while commercial alternatives added paywalls.
Gul Agha's MIT doctoral work formalized the Actor model for concurrent computation—a framework now underpinning Akka, Erlang/OTP, and modern microservices. Forty years on, CTOs are rediscovering its answers to deadlock, backpressure, and multi-core scalability challenges.