What do people think about using symbolic links in a web project you commit to git, with contributors who might be using Linux, macOS, or Windows? I’ve heard there are ~issues~ for contributors on Windows, but don’t know how big of a deal it actually is. #OpenSource #Git #SourceCode #Community

We now have an 'open web API' that requires you to comply with Google's "terms of use". I know many at Chrome disagree with this, but feel they can't say anything publicly out of fear of internal retribution. github.com/mozilla/stan...

Maul: Shadow Lord is about Maul and a cop. @keeblycat.bsky.social misheard it as Mall Shadow Lord, which of course would be about an evil mall cop.

You can disagree with someone—heck, you can even not like them—but don’t bring that into my community by harassing them. We’re gonna protect our community members like an angry momma bear, and you will not be welcome anywhere near our projects.

So so much work happening on @roost.tools Coop rn. It turns out when you have orgs adopting an open source project, you get lots of feedback—and new contributors! 🙌 #OpenSource #TrustAndSafety

If you are a #gnome #foundation member, there has been some changes that is worth reading 🙂 https://discourse.gnome.org/t/foundation-members-matrix-channel-automated-membership-sync/34829

Just set up a small monthly donation to @accessnow.org. One-off donations are always welcome to non-profits, but smaller recurring ones can be super impactful, too. @deobald.bsky.social wrote about this in the context of GNOME, but it applies to any non-profit: blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/...

match me, i dare you

These are the states that are making a mad dash to strip black voters of power: Florida Mississippi Alabama Tennessee “Too often, Black voters bear the brunt of the political theater" - Charles Taylor, president of Mississippi NAACP chapter www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Want to support Wikipedia AND your local government? Here’s a request for support from our friends at Govdirectory, a “crowdsourced and fact checked directory of official governmental online accounts and services.” You can find all these resources here: newpublic.substack.com/p/bulletin-b...

Can anyone using Firefox on macOS or Windows do me a favor? 🙏 I’d love to see how Firefox’s picture-in-picture for video works on those platforms so I can compare to how it works on Linux (GNOME, specifically, but the Linux build of Firefox in general).

NEWS 📣 The Sovereign Tech Agency is launching the Sovereign Tech Standards network today, a new program designed to bring open source maintainers directly into global standards development. www.sovereign.tech/news/join-so...

We’re aware that GitHub is experiencing issues this morning; if you're having trouble accessing a ROOST project, that could be why. We’ve mirrored our repos to @tangled.org; issues and PRs aren’t mirrored and we’re treating it as read-only, but it may be helpful for accessing our repos or code.

I get that spam PRs for popular repos are a problem, but nothing turns me off from ever wanting to contribute to your project more than when I get an automated response like this.

Universal Blue/Bazzite/Silverblue/other immutable Linux friends: (why) should I be using Homebrew? #Linux #Homebrew #Bazzite #uBlue #Fedora #Silverblue

I got a ThinkPad P1 for work and it’s mostly *awesome,* but I think there’s something wrong with the display. 😭 It’s the 120 Hz OLED but looks grainier than an OLED phone from 15 years ago. And somehow there are very visible hot spots brightness-wise? I don’t even know how that’s possible w/OLED.

Recently we celebrated Trans Day of Visibility, but words alone aren't enough. If you want to apply for GNOME Foundation membership you don't need to provide your legal name, you can use your actual name! We recognise the cruel reality that many trans people's legal names are deadnames. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

100% there will be a war fought over which Jesus LLM gets to decide who gets to play on a Little League soccer team or what kind of muffins get sold at a PTA fundraiser or something. It will last 30+ years, kill thousands of people, and gestate a new strain of flu.

lol this appointment SMS bot is powered by an LLM. What other fun should I have?

Just got a spam email with: > Not interested? Reply "unsubscribe" and I’ll throw my laptop into a volcano. Honestly, it almost makes me respect the spammer. *Almost.*

Firefox’s newer profiles feature is nice and I’m using it to separate work from personal stuff, but it’s still a little clunky when opening links from apps; it seems non-deterministic as to which profile it’s going to open in. I think it’s supposed to be based on which was used last?

I love when “20,000 miles” for an airline actually only pays for about 640 actual miles of a flight.

Who’s gonna be the first nerd to write an AT Protocol integration for Home Assistant? My house currently posts to Mastodon, but maybe it should have a Bluesky account, too. #HomeAssistant

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I need a favor for a story: I want to know about software you built, just for you. Not to sell, not to raise capital for, just for you and you alone. Vibe coding, hand-coding, whatever works. If you've done this, email me (david at the verge dot com) or DM me — I want to hear all the stories!

Finding someone in a different timezone to do maintenance off peak hours is kind of a cheat code

Open source peeps: I want to see good examples of “get involved” or community pages for inspiration. Show me some of your favorites! 👀 #OpenSource #community

Remember Google Allo? lol

1 week to go before our Fellowship program applications process closes. Have you send yours? You still have time! 📆 Starting date 1st May ⏰ Part-time or Full-time 💷 $70-$100 K per year for Full-time. Do you want to know more? fellowship.gnome.org/ #GNOME

I’ve been dicking around with a little personal pet peeve project, and I think my conclusion is: why do Apple and Google dictate how computers work??

From this day in 2021: My nephews were curious about Final Fantasy after seeing a Moogle I drew and I described Chocobos as looking "kind of like Big Bird" so then I had to draw it.

this is an excellent post regardless of if you're interested in the subject or not. just a great technical analysis all around.

Here’s to making myself finish art I started weeks ago #ahsoka #starwarsfanart #starwars

📆 Reminder: applications for the Open Social Awards are due May 1 Seeking MVP products on open protocols! 👉 newpublic.org/OSA

I’m really enjoying Maul: Shadow Lord so far for its tone and story, but the visual style definitely steals the show. I want to watch all of the BTS interviews with the art director, artists, and technical team! #StarWars #MaulShadowLord

When an open source project posts a link on social media, should they attach a relevant image to the post, or exclude their own image in favor of the link preview?

Are you building something on or with @roost.tools projects? I want to hear about it! We’re putting together a little community directory of projects.

NEW: The FBI was able to forensically extract copies of incoming Signal messages from a defendant’s iPhone, even after the app was deleted, because copies of the content were saved in the device’s push notification database, multiple people present for FBI testimony in a trial told 404 Media.

2014 me vs me now

If you ever receive a label that you disagree with on your account/post, you can appeal like so: 1. Go to the post 2. Press on the “A label has been placed on this content” 3: Press the appeal button to appeal

2014 me vs me now

we’ve invented a new type of Posting that is too powerful. we’re working with industry partners to roll it out safely

Our friends at @internetstudio.bsky.social are running a small program to help builders ascend into being founders/partners. Here is a video of studio partner @elij.dev, who often helps take products from zero to one for many clients. He made diagram.page on his own without AI!

A group of new accounts on Polymarket made highly specific, well-timed bets on whether the U.S. and Iran would reach a ceasefire on April 7, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits.

Don’t worry, the President needs congressional approval to reinstate the draft. Just like he needs congressional approval to start a war.

This Friday!

We're back from #ATmosphereConf 2026 and we're still thinking about it. @cassidyjames.com and @julietshen.bsky.social gave a trust & safety crash course, introduced Coop to the atproto community, and hosted an unconference session on what a minimum safety stack looks like for indie devs.

i am fully recovered and rejoicing in the blog @cassidyjames.com put together recapping our adventures in the Atmosphere roost.tools/blog/roost-a...