With Big Tech abusing open source projects, all the AI Training on people's code, the Wordpress case and now the Ruby Bundler's take over I'm tempted to do a paper/presentation titled: What Open Source can teach you about Capitalism.

“Formatted spreadsheets are like the fossil fuel of the data community. They’ll be around for awhile” - Luis D. Verde Arregoitia at #Positconf2025

Today, @archive.org opened a new space for the Open Community in Amsterdam! 🇳🇱 📚This is the beginning of the Internet Archive Europe! The goal? 🎯 Fight against disinformation, foster learning, sovereignty, support growth.

Europe is a Digital Colony s01e15. We need better decentralised technology.

Why you don’t remove them? It is what we do, because: we don’t know of the note are ok, we don’t know what people will do with those notes, I will no share the same if this things are there. Are all loss for everyone.

20 AI Note takers in the Webinar I'm attending. There are ~50 people attending. We even have AI notetakers from companies and people that are not attending. The chat gets spammed, there is zero reuse of resources and we are feeding Big Brother with all we say. This is NOT #TheTechWeWant.

The hard, hard, hard lesson is mostly always the same: technology alone is not enough. People need contexts, resources, training material, opportunities. Space and time. This, I think, is the main reason around tech and data failures. #csvconf #csvconfv9

Amen!

@vivaldi.com has a really interesting stance on AI integration to Web Search that I completely agree with. However searching the web has become a nightmare and AI summaries are appealing. How are you experiencing the situation? vivaldi.com/blog/keep-ex...

NPM's week

I'm writing some tools to help people rescue (download) data portals based on CKAN. Today I have published `ckan-rescue` a small Python package to download all the data and metadata: pdelboca.me/writings/202... #opendata #ckan #datarescue

11% used uv in 2024. I'm wondering what the number would be in 2025. I thought I was jumping into the train quite late but looks like it still not that popular. lp.jetbrains.com/python-devel...

#ProTip: Planten un limonero 🍋

If you're an R programmer with some expertise on Data Validation and want to work in a short mission-driven project this is a cool chance to work with us! 👇

This is SO messed up. 🫥 I had a few messages and tags today asking me to clarify my stance on Israel, which was odd as I've been pretty outspoken against genocide and in full support of Palestinian statehood...

Recuerdos de mis inicios en programación.

"90% of technological problems can be solved with tools that have been around for decades" I was talking with @okfn.bsky.social about technology and open data as part of the 100+ Conversations cycle. blog.okfn.org/2025/08/26/a...

We are testing an AI integration in Open Data Editor. blog.okfn.org/2025/08/12/a... We still need to improve the output quality. Are you an AI dev-expert working on similar projects who could guide us on our remaining tech questions? github.com/okfn/opendat...

Maintainers teams getting annoyed by AI generated contributions is a symptom of poorly defined contribution guidelines and a naif open source culture. When barriers for contribution disappears, you get hit by the reality that accepting/reviewing everyone's ideas is not sustainable.

Why the "declare AI help in your PR" is useless, courtesy of 3000 years ago logic: - If you can't tell without the disclaimer, it's useless: people will not tell. - If you can tell, it's useless: you can tell. Just evaluate quality, not process.

Para los que andan por la zona de Sierras Chicas en Córdoba. Ya estamos preinscribiendo para curso presencial de programación. Es para iniciarse desde cero en Python. Si conoces a alguien que le pueda interesar, pásale link por favor: raizdetres.com.ar

A 20-year-old #Palestinian girl,Marah Abu Zuhri,was starved to death by the criminal #Netanyahu govt:she died yesterday in Italy after MEDEVAC This is a point of no return:time to bring Italian govt+arms industries before the #InternationalCriminalCourt www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2025/08/16/p...

🎯 On 19 August, @okfn.bsky.social is bringing together #AI experts and #digitalliteracy practitioners to discuss the challenges of building AI capacity for civil society organisations, activists, and the open movement. 👉🏾 Register here: buff.ly/Y84kWJn #AILiteracy #TheTechWeWant

When you face a new project, do you ask yourself questions around the long term sustainability of it? Do you plan your tech around the scenario of what would happen in 5 or 10 years? Or you just go with the flow of using what you feel comfortable right now?

Gracias Patricio! Because I know you and OKFN work, I know you also build community with people-first approach.

Still smiling after my keynote abt Community at #useR2025 💜 Huge thanks to the organizing team for the invite, and to everyone who joined, asked questions, and shared their thoughts — you made it truly special! Slides docs.google.com/presentation... Video: www.youtube.com/live/CTTvTQ-... #rstats

📣✨ [Announcement] #OpenDataEditor 1.6.0 AI-enhanced Version Release ✨ Now, ODE is a key companion tool for the early and critical stages of your AI journey. 👇🏾 Check the new (responsible, offline) AI features to improve the quality of your data. buff.ly/VXILNlc

Is it me or Github is working terribly today? It doesn't list PRs nor releases and the UI is really buggy all the time.

I am more and more concern about the future of Github as it is clear that it is no longer about development and communities but rather about AI. The value that Microsoft is extracting from unpaid labor will be study material for decades to come. www.theverge.com/news/757461/...

Starting the working week with a clean Debian 13 install with XFCE 4.20. Last time I updated my laptop was 2 years ago when Debian 12 was released and in terms of features I didn't have any reason to upgrade. I did it just because I enjoy it. I love stable software and stable releases.

GPT-5 is so amazing it can make 52.8 higher than 69.1 on a bar chart It can even make 69.1 and 30.8 THE SAME SIZE

Inicie una discusión acerca del código generado por IA en el proyecto de software libre del que participo (CKAN). Algunos mencionan que podría no cumplir con las licencias abiertas ¿Opiniones? Sobre eso o sobre su uso en general en el software libre.

Developers fixing AI generated code.

I have been talking a lot about my thoughts on #VibeCoding and #AI being the Fast Fashion Industry of Software Engineering. I took some time to put my thoughts in a blogpost: pdelboca.me/writings/202...

@smaurizi.bsky.social guarda cosa ho trovato in libreria!

Can definitely relate...

One of the reasons we migrated our complete frontend stack from angular to react back in the AngularJS -> Angular 2 days. Respect for existing users with slow velocity of breaking changes is something I am looking for ever since.

What's with projects that do not provide any kind of support for migrating between major versions? Two recently cases, the first one suggest "starting from a clean VPS" and then migrate data from older servers. The second saying that: "we changed a lot, only 3rd parties utilities can assist".

The US AI Action Plan is militaristic. Quote: "AI has the potential to transform both the warfighting and back-office operations of the DOD. The United States must aggressively adopt AI within its Armed Forces if it is to maintain its global military preeminence" www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

With the current enshitification of Web Development, creating apps for Desktop feels like a nice holiday. Even when needing to deal with multiple platforms and build systems, it gives you perspective on how absurdly complex current web stack has become.

POV: you want to create a simple javascript MVP in 2025 There's a lot of talk about the js trademark but... hear me out... ConfigScript 💩 #dev #programming #webdev

Since the enshitification of Search Engines I find myself using zealdocs.org A LOT. I love how easy is to navigate across multiple documentations. Fun Fact: my use of LLM gets reduced drastically when a tool has a good documentation.

We need more of this mindset of Complete Software. Software that does not need constant updates, does not need constant care, they do not need to be constantly evolving. Software with a fixed scoped that fulfill its purposes.

Day 2 of perhaps the best-named tech conference so far this year! Tech people want, which by the way is NOT AI powered kill machines. See you at 17:00 CET

URGENT 🇺🇳 The clock is ticking to block Annalena Baerbock’s appointment as President of the 80th United Nations General Assembly. A criminal like Baerbock — who blocked ceasefire efforts as Israel devastated Gaza — does not represent us. SIGN NOW ✍️ buff.ly/wc5a3GO

Morning thought: LLMs and "vibe coding" will become the fast fashion industry of Software Development: cheap, low quality and unsustainable products flowing the market. I found them quite useful, but under the current capitalist logic they will became a polluting agent of the digital world.

I learned yesterday that my elderly parents weren't going to renew their house insurance "because it's all now online and too daunting." Suffice it to say I said I'd help them sort it, but I wonder how many elderly are losing services because the Internet is scary/impersonal to them.

"There’s real value in faster prototyping, scaffolding, and automation. But LLMs don’t remove the need for clear thinking, careful review, and thoughtful design. The cost of writing code has indeed dropped. But the cost of making sense of it together as a team hasn’t. That’s still the bottleneck."

My dream is to build software like these. And I think the building blocks for it are there: hypermedia, HTML and CSS with a pinch of Javascript. We can build a web that last. #TheTechWeWant