Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, Open Data, and Standards

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 27, 2026

• Web Browsers/Web Servers

  • Numeric Citizen ☛ Micro.blog + RSS = ?

    Micro.blog is set to launch soon what could be its most exciting new feature yet: an integrated RSS reader. [...]

  • Mozilla

    • Mozilla ☛ Hacks.Mozilla.Org: Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web

      This post is an expanded version of a presentation I gave at the 2025 WebAssembly CG meeting in Munich.

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

  • Flamed Fury ☛ Making fLaMEd fury Glow Everywhere With an Eleventy Transform

    What’s going on, Internet? I originally added a .gradient-text CSS class as a fun way to make my name (fLaMEd) and site name (fLaMEd fury) pop on the homepage. shellsharks gave me a shoutout for it, which inspired me to take it further and apply the effect site-wide. Site wide was the original intent and the problem was it was only being applied manually in a handful of places, and I kept forgetting to add it whenever I wrote a new post or created a new page. Classic.

    Instead of hunting through templates and markdown files, I’ve added an Eleventy HTML transform that automatically applies the glow up.

  • Andy Bell ☛ Wrapping up the planning

    Andy Bell is completely redesigning his personal site from scratch and breaking down each part to educate and hopefully, inspire you to build your own corner of the [Internet].

• Education

  • Daniel Stenberg ☛ curl up 2026

    The annual curl users and developers meeting, curl up, takes place May 23-24 2026 in Prague, Czechia.

    We are in fact returning to the same city and the exact same venue as in 2025. We liked it so much!

  • Perl ☛ German Perl/Raku Workshop 2026

    List of talks

• Openness/Sharing/Collaboration

  • Open Data

    • Gunnar Morling ☛ Hardwood: A New Parser for Apache Parquet

      Today, it’s my great pleasure to announce the first public release of Hardwood, a new parser for the Apache Parquet file format, optimized for minimal dependencies and great performance.

      Hardwood is open-source (Apache License 2.0) and supports Java 21 or newer. You can grab it from Maven Central and start parsing your Parquet files with ease and efficiency.

• Standards/Consortia

  • Diomidis Spinellis ☛ blog dds: 2025-09-26 — Why I Choose Email Over Messaging

    My colleagues and friends know that I prefer to communicate with them via email rather than chat messaging. There are many benefits in such a choice. You may want to consider them and adopt the same stance.