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  • 🔗 The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins

    I started looking through corrupt Winamp skins and it lead me down some very strange rabbit holes
    I was more of an xmms guy myself growing up (desktop linux), but I love how...human the artifacts are in these corrupted skins. More like this, please.

  • 🔗 Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers

    The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first community should help build it

  • 🔗 The Microsoft-Dilemma - Europe as a Software Colony

    Many state and public administrations from Helsinki to Lisbon operate with the software of the US corporation. It makes them vulnerable for hackers and spies, violates European public procurement l...
    This is a bit of old news for someone who's been following this since the original Linux powering Munich experiments in the early 2000's.

    While native apps are arguably better for data entry heavy apps and everything's a web app these days, that everything's a web app today makes it easier for end users to run any OS. That said, it also means you can no longer do whatever you want with the "documents" produced by the app because they live in a database in their data center.