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Thunderbird ☛ Thunderbird Pro November 2025 Update - The Thunderbird Blog
Welcome back to the latest update on our progress with Thunderbird Pro, a set of additional subscription services designed to enhance the email client you know, while providing a powerful open-source alternative to many of the big tech offerings available today. These services include Appointment, an easy to use scheduling tool; Send, which offers end-to-end encrypted file sharing; and Thundermail, an email service from the Thunderbird team. If you’d like more information on the broader details of each service and the road to getting here you can read our past series of updates here. Do you want to receive these and other updates and be the first to know when Thunderbird Pro is available? Be sure to sign up for the waitlist.
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Rui Carmo ☛ OpenSCAD
OpenSCAD is a solid 3D modeling program that generates 3D shapes from a simple scene description language and can directly output STL files for 3D printing. It is extraordinarily precise, quite flexible and free, but can have a somewhat frustrating learning curve.
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Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG)
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Andre Franca ☛ RE: Why Do You Need Big Tech for Your SSG?
But Kev's point about control resonates too. There's something oddly satisfying about knowing exactly where your bits live and how they get there. No mysterious build pipelines, no waiting for someone else's infrastructure to wake up. Just you, a bash script, and direct access to your server. For someone technical enough to handle it, the simplicity is also great.
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Education
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FSF ☛ The FSF40 hackathon is this weekend. Here's what you need to know
The first step to contributing (we're excited you're here!) is to choose a project that you'd like to get involved with during the hackathon. Most participating projects will have at least one task intended for non-programmers, so if you don't know a programming language or have documentation skills, you can still participate!
The full list of participating projects is as follows: [...]
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