Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 22, 2025

• Open Source For U ☛ The Best Open Source Web Servers for 2025

  This list of best open source web servers for this year is followed by guidelines on which one to choose and why, and how to get started. As we move into 2025, the demand for robust, reliable, and cost-effective web hosting solutions has never been higher.

• Unicorn Media ☛ FOSS Force Mostly Open Tech News Quiz – March 21, 2025

  Did you have time to keep up with the news this week? Here's your chance to brag… or not. This week there are 11 questions. Good luck!

• Web Browsers/Web Servers

  • Matan Abudy ☛ My Quest for the Perfect RSS App

    So when I discovered a technology that could get rid of this Sisyphean ritual, gathering all my favorite reads into one place and ensuring I’d never miss a thing? Mind blown.

    I’ve been hooked on RSS for over a decade now. My first reader app—the one that got me started—was the beautiful Reeder. I grabbed it for my iPod Touch, and it just felt right.

  • James G ☛ Web readers and RSS readers

    In contrast, “web reader” describes what the tool does: allows you to read pages on the web. The term “web reader” is use-case first. “web reader” implies the tool is both on the web and of the web. And it uses a concept — the web — that is much more widely recognised.

• Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra

  • Document Foundation ☛ REMINDER: Document Freedom Day @ LibreOffice

    Next Wednesday, on March 26, we will celebrate Document Freedom Day 2025. During the day, we will mainly talk about the ISO Open Document Format, which was approved in 2005 by OASIS and in 2006 by ISO. Due to the global scale of the LibreOffice project, our events will be online.

• Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG)

  • Dr molly tov ☛ My-gration

    Two: Bear uses Cloudflare. As part of my escape from Big Tech, I included Cloud Firewall in my LibreWolf extensions setup. Cloud Firewall automatically blocks sites from Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Google, and Cloudflare.

    If this sounds like it breaks a lot of the Web, well, it does. But I also consider it part of my resistance to the oligarchs.

  • Kev Quirk ☛ Improving My Journal

    Back in August I created a very simple Journal for my own use. I've been updating it lately and I think it's a lot better now.

    So previously, my journal created simple plaintext files, then rendered them when a corresponding link was clicked. It was stupidly simply; here's what it looked like:

    It has been working fine, but over time there's been some limitations that have started to frustrate me. The main one was that there was no simple way to browse my journal entries chronologically; I could only look at them one at a time, which is pretty shit.

    I also decided that it would be cool to add a tagging system to entries, as well as a way for recording my mood at the time the entry was written. Unfortunately, this wasn't practical to do with simple plaintext files, so I decided to do things differently.

• Education

  • Mandaris Moore ☛ Homebrew Website Club (March 19th, 2025)

    I love going to the European meetings of the Homebrew Website Club because I can do it during my lunch and then get back to work.