Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 08, 2025

• Web Browsers/Web Servers

  • Jason Becker ☛ Uh Oh, I Think My RSS Service May Be in Trouble

    This is deeply concerning stuff for me. RSS is basically how I’ve experienced the web since like 2004.

  • Don Marti ☛ Search malvertising protection using enterprise policies

    Fortunately there’s another protection method I can use, besides browser extensions. This is tested on both Mozilla Firefox 142.0.1 and Google Chrome 140.0.7339.41. Both Firefox and Chrome have enterprise management features and it’s pretty easy to write a config file into the right place to set some options that will take effect across all browser profiles. And—buried treasure—both browsers’ enterprise management features support URL blocks.

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

  • Justin Duke ☛ Django forever

    Professionally, I see myself mostly surrounded by frameworks largely dominated by superfans: Rails, Laravel, and Next all make it their business (for the latter two, quite literally so) to turn framework adoption into a quasi-religious affair. Each one of these frameworks has something I admire and, in the truest form of admiration, occasionally try to steal wholesale in some form: [...]

  • Ben Werdmuller ☛ WordPress for newsrooms

    There are two CMS choices that I think are particularly well-suited for newsrooms. The first, Ghost, is perfect for smaller newsrooms with a newsletter-centric distribution model. (I love Ghost’s elegance and use it for my own site and newsletter.) The other is, indeed, WordPress.

• Openness/Sharing/Collaboration

  • Open Data

    • Omicron Limited ☛ Insurers have detailed data on your home's flood risk. So why don't you?

      Flooding is a growing problem for households across the nation, and forecast to grow as the climate changes. Yet, flood risk is not always easy to identify. It reflects the complex interplay of two key elements.

    • Rlang ☛ Davey Johnson, former Mets manager, an early proponent of sabermetrics

      Davey Johnson, former baseball player and manager, recently passed away. He was notable in the math and data analysis world for being an early proponent of sabermetrics, the use of statistical analysis of baseball to provide insights into player and team performance, long before the 2003 Moneyball book and 2011 movie brought sabermetrics to the public.