Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and WWW Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 26, 2026

• Kenneth Reitz ☛ acat

  It behaves the way you'd expect something named after cat to behave. Give it a file, and it plays. Give it several, and it plays them one after another, the same way cat concatenates. Pipe something into it, and stdin works too.

• Vim Classic ☛ Vim Classic

  Vim Classic is a fork of Vim 8.x for long-term maintenance, providing a stable, dependable editor — maintained entirely by humans.

• Web Browsers/Web Servers/Feed Readers

  • Search Engine Roundtable ☛ Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated October 24th

    This past Saturday, October 24th, we saw some significant ranking volatility captured by many of the third-party Google tracking tools. There was also some heavy chatter within the SEO industry about ranking movement and Google traffic changes over the past couple of days. The two together make me believe that there was some Google Search ranking adjustment, a Google Search updsate, released Friday and into Saturday.

  • Mozilla

    • Mozilla ☛ Firefox reunites meme royalty to remind you what the internet used to feel like [Ed: Mozilla keeps writing "internet" with small "i"]

      A group of familiar faces from the early web just got back together to ask an important question: What happened to the internet?

• Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra

  • Protesilaos Stavrou ☛ Emacs: doric-themes version 1.4.0

    These are my minimalist themes. They use few colours and will appear mostly monochromatic in many contexts. Styles involve the careful use of typography, such as italics and bold italics.

    If you want maximalist themes in terms of colour, check my ef-themes package. For something in-between, which I consider the best “default theme” for a text editor, opt for my modus-themes.

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

  • Kiwi TCMS: Testing and Continuous Delivery devroom, FOSDEM'27

    Important: devroom will take place on Saturday, January 30th 2027 at ULB Solbosch Campus, Brussels, Belgium!

  • Robert Birming ☛ My latest Bear theme: Kodiak

    And much more. I have a lot of other ideas too, but I think this is a solid first release.