Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 27, 2025

• The Register UK ☛ Doom hits KiCad as PCB traces become demons and doors

  There's a certain delight to be had in doing something just to see if you can. Case in point: rendering Doom using PCB design software, or wading through the shores of Hell via the medium of an oscilloscope.

  Enter Mike Ayles, who pondered if it was possible to render Doom in vectors using KiCad. The answer? Of course it was. Doom can run on pretty much anything.

• Web Browsers/Web Servers

  • Mozilla

    • SAP ☛ Project Foxhound - on the Scent of Client-Side Web Vulnerabilities

      Foxhound is a modified web browser based on Firefox with the following enhancements: [...]

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

  • Gregory Hammond ☛ Using JavaScript and Eleventy to display headlines from multiple RSS feeds

    Sometimes we all want to get information from other sites and display it on ours. Yes API’s do exist, and many sites offer an official API, but what if you want to gather their recent blog post, and they have no API access to it? If they have an RSS feed, and you have some JavaScript and Eleventy you can do that.

• Education

  • Tor ☛ Keeping the internet free together: State of the Onion Community Day | The Tor Project

    Fighting for a free internet requires collective action. And the Tor Project is proud to be in the company of many likeminded organizations that work to maintain and restore access to trustworthy information for millions of people globally. Tune into the State of the Onion: Community Day livestream to hear directly from other members of the Tor community about their efforts to defend your privacy, protect you from surveillance and censorship, and how they are making an impact in 2025.

  • [Repeat] MWL ☛ “OpenZFS Mastery” sponsorships now open

    I’ve shipped all the Networking for System Administrators, 2nd ed sponsor gifts. I’m getting copies for the Kickstarter backers out the door.

    By popular demand, I’m opening sponsorships on OpenZFS Mastery, by myself and Allan Jude.