Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
DHH & Open Source
I might have a new prayer: God, give me confidence of DHH claiming his proprietary license is Open Source. 37signals/Basecamp has a great new product called Fizzy, whose brilliance and innovative qualities are being distracted from by its co-creator David Heinmeier Hansson’s insistence on calling it open source. “One more thing… Fizzy is open source and … Continue reading DHH & Open Source →
Hyperacute Interdynamics
Platformer
• Casey Newton
How X made the EU's case for it
By banning an ad account on a flimsy pretext, X demonstrated the exact behavior that led the European Union to fine it. PLUS: The state AI law moratorium is back, and the Paramount-Netflix fight
Blanco County Courthouse.
Johny Srouji, in Memo Responding to Gurman Report: ‘I Love My Team, and I Love My Job at Apple, and I Don’t Plan on Leaving Anytime Soon’
Daring Fireball
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AI optimism is a class privilege via Josh Collinsworth
I think I have an idea why we're so extremely divided on AI: it's because we have an intuitive sense of who it stands to benefit, and who stands to pay the costs. I think whether you see reason for optimism has a lot to do with which group you see yourself in.
Trunk & Tidbits, November 2025
How Jeffery Hicks goes behind-the-scenes in his newsletter
Jeffery uses his newsletter to share tips, tricks, and explore areas within PowerShell that are often overlooked, yet super useful to consider.
EU Court Rules That Apple Must Face Dutch Antitrust Lawsuit Regarding App Store Commission Rates
macrumors.com/2025/12/02/dutch-app-store-antitrust-case-proceeds/
Post Reports
• The Washington Post
Get ready for Trump’s World Cup
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• B. Cameron Gain
Meet Whamm: The WebAssembly Instrumentation Framework

Every once in a while, a particularly interesting release or project is introduced at a larger conference amid zero marketing
The post Meet Whamm: The WebAssembly Instrumentation Framework appeared first on The New Stack.
BTW, a frequently asked question, where can I get your blogroll list to import into my feed reader? Answer -- here.
WIRED
• Boone Ashworth
The Military Almost Got the Right to Repair. Lawmakers Just Took It Away
The final language of the annual bill that funds the US military is in. It removes provisions that would have helped ensure service members’ ability to fix their own equipment.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Linux Foundation Leader: We’re Not in an AI Bubble

TOKYO — In his keynote speech at Open Source Summit Japan on Monday, Executive Director Jim Zemlin argued that “Artificial
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Defector
• Billy Haisley
Rayan Cherki’s Pass Was A Thing Of Beauty
I should have demo'd the blogroll stuff at WordCamp Canada. Next time I will show products people can use right now.
Doc always has a link on my home page. That's because I have the best blogroll ever. It's hooked up to a feed reader via a technology called websockets that came along after the heyday of blogging. If you want to see its heart beating, go to scripting.com, in the browser, open the JavaScript console, and watch the updates flow in (screen shot). While we weren't watching the web got some really badass new features.
WIRED
• Reece Rogers
OpenAI Should Stop Naming Its Creations After Products That Already Exist
From “cameo” to “io,” OpenAI keeps trying to call its new and upcoming releases by names that resemble existing trademarks.