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Filed under 'opensource'
➠ April 17, 2012
zxcvbn: realistic password strength estimation
Thoughtful article explaining Dropbox’s new open-source password-strength-estimator. Good stuff.
➠ June 21, 2010
Slide, Inc. - open source
Some Python libraries opensourced from the Slide codebase. “wirebin”, the superfast object serializer, is my favourite.
➠ May 3, 2009
Miro Adoption Center
Brilliant marketing of donating to an open source project: You get to “adopt” a line of code in the codebase.
➠ March 15, 2009
redis
Key-value datastore. Fast like memcached, but persists to disk and can deal with pushing and popping with lists and sets. Just the thing to solve some of the problems I’ve been having with my RDBMS on a project I’m hacking on.
➠ January 28, 2009
ReactOS
Man, those ReactOS developers have really done a stellar job of replicating the Windows NT fundamentals.
(Okay, not really their fault! I chose to "upgrade" their demo VM when VMware prompted me. If you don't do that, it works OK)
(Also, the video is sped up by Flickr. Bug reported here.)
➠ September 12, 2008
Dopplr Blog: Find and invite your existing social networks
Dopplr have open-sourced their Ruby code to find your contacts and friends on social networks. They do a great job with it, so this’ll be worth keeping an eye on until “Portable Contacts” takes off.
➠ 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
Synthesia, Piano for Everyone
The project formerly known as “Piano Hero”.
➠ 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
➠ 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.
➠ October 7, 2005
the electric sheep screen-saver
My screensaver-of-choice — Collaboratively generate frames for gorgeously-trippy animations.
➠ September 11, 2005
Reduce the risk, hire from open source (Loud Thinking)
There is much I agree with here. Maybe this weekend I’ll finish off a draft blog entry I’ve been meaning to do for months on hiring.
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This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.
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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.