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GitHub seems to be crumbling the past couple of weeks, raising concerns about 90% of the world's OSS depending on one provider. Tangled aims to fill this space by federating events among git servers (called 'knots'), allowing cross-server collaboration, pull requests, and social features using the AT protocol.
Zed, the high-performance editor built on a custom Rust-based UI framework rather than Electron, announces its 1.0 release after over a thousand versions. As an AI-native editor, it features parallel agents, edit predictions, and the Agent Client Protocol, alongside the launch of Zed for Business. The 1.0 milestone signals confidence that most developers can quickly feel at home, with ongoing development focused on human-AI collaborative coding through their new DeltaDB synchronization engine.
The Dutch government has launched code.overheid.nl, a government-wide platform for publishing and developing open-source software. Currently a pilot using Forgejo, a European sovereign alternative to GitHub and GitLab, the platform supports digital sovereignty and aims to grow into a shared Git platform for all government bodies.
Mitchell Hashimoto, creator of Ghostty and GitHub user 1299 since 2008, announces the terminal emulator will leave GitHub after 18 years. Citing frequent outages that block his ability to work, he says it is 'no longer a place for serious work' and plans to move Ghostty to another platform.
This article draws parallels between ICU handover processes and Scuderia Ferrari's Formula 1 pit crew coordination, exploring how structured, protocol-driven communication can reduce medical errors. It applies lessons from high-stakes, fast-paced environments to improve handover reliability in critical care settings.
Mitchell Hashimoto, HashiCorp co-founder, argues GitHub has become too unstable for serious work due to frequent outages blocking productivity for hours at a time. After keeping a journal marking nearly every day with an X for GitHub-related work disruptions, he announced Ghostty will leave the platform.
A GitHub repo containing transcribed DOS printouts from Tim Paterson, the creator of MS-DOS. The repository organizes the materials into transcriptions, printed files, and source code directories, preserving the original documentation of one of the most influential operating systems.
Jeff Schomay built a text-based renderer and synthetic event system for his browser game Crossword Dungeon, enabling AI to autonomously play-test the game via HTTP calls. The harness catches bugs, recreates edge cases, and validates fixes, replacing hours of manual playtesting with AI-driven testing.
Canonical disclosed 44 CVEs in uutils, the Rust reimplementation of GNU coreutils, revealing that sophisticated bugs slipped through Rust's borrow checker, clippy lints, and cargo audit. The article examines specific vulnerability patterns like TOCTOU issues and why Rust's safe APIs can still enable security vulnerabilities in privileged tools.
A Firefox extension that enables and manages Firefox's built-in adblock-rust engine. The project provides a user interface for controlling the Rust-based ad blocking capabilities built into Firefox, with background scripts and popup management.