#open-source
101 episodes
#5469: Open Source's New Map: India, Croatia, Ethiopia
One in three new GitHub developers now comes from a country outside 2020's top ten. What that shift means for open source.
#5458: Two Linuses and the Fun in Technology
What Linus Tech Tips and Linus Torvalds each model about play, mastery, and keeping tech fun as AI eats the tedious parts.
#5417: Can You Version-Control Your Android Apps?
Android Developer Verification enforcement just started. Can you define your installed app list as code — and what breaks if you try?
#5415: Inside F-Droid: Repos, Front Ends, and Sideloading Safely
How F-Droid's repository model works, why it has five front ends, and what actually keeps sideloaded APKs safe.
#5387: Who Decides What Your Keyboard Knows?
Your keyboard's word list was probably frozen in 2014. Here's who maintains the open-source dictionaries — and why Gboard's stays fresh.
#5383: Android's Open Core, Closed Governance
Android's code is open, but its roadmap isn't. What happens when Google changes the core and developers just have to cope?
#5376: Why a Zello Pager Wearable Doesn't Exist Yet
Pagers blink until acknowledged. Zello beeps until you tap. But nobody's shipped the wearable that bridges them.
#5319: Focus Stacking Without the Phone App Guesswork
Your phone app wants three shots. The optics want three hundred. Here's how to actually stack macro focus.
#5251: Recovering the Moon That's Already in the Pixels
Image restoration clarifies photos without inventing detail — until the fidelity dial shows up. Here's what's in the toolbox.
#5004: What Precision Is Your Model Actually Running At?
When you call an API, are you getting the model you think you are? Inference providers quantize more than they admit.
#4976: Building a Procurement Agent That Actually Works
How to encode the weird, undocumented skills technical buyers use every day into an AI agent that won't get you audited.
#4838: The CueCat: A Dot-Com Catastrophe
The story of the free cat-shaped barcode scanner that burned $185 million and then found a second life.
#4831: The Podcast Player That Doesn't Exist
Why can't you buy a dedicated podcast player that downloads episodes for offline listening?
#4815: Agent Framework Lock-In: What Actually Breaks
Code-defined vs visual builders. LangGraph vs CrewAI. How portable are agent workflows really?
#4800: The CLI That Powers Half the Internet's Video
How a French programmer's side project became the invisible engine behind YouTube, VLC, and OBS.
#4783: Bonding Layer Showdown: Speedify vs Self-Hosted
Packet-level bonding for travel routers: Speedify's black box vs. self-hosted control. Which wins for a technically capable user?
#4781: Bonding Internet Lines with OpenMPTCProuter
One developer, no funding, and the only open-source bonding router that actually works. Here's how.
#4780: Bonding Internet Connections with OpenMPTCProuter
How to bond multiple connections at the packet level using the only serious open-source option.
#4650: How Apache Became the Backbone of Modern Infrastructure
From a patchy web server to 320+ projects — how a volunteer non-profit became the default home for the software running the modern economy.
#4649: Why Open Source Heroes Can't Afford Rent
The code running the internet is maintained by people earning a dollar a year. Why does the market fail to reward our digital commons?
#4647: How GitHub Made Open Source the Default
Before the pull request, contributing to open source meant emailing a patch and hoping. How GitHub changed everything.
#4641: Mozilla's Hidden Projects: Beyond the Browser
Mozilla is more than just Firefox. Discover Common Voice, Monitor, Thunderbird, and Rust — the public infrastructure projects shaping the open web.
#4638: Traffic Shaping: How Routers Decide Who Gets Bandwidth
Token buckets, bufferbloat, and why your router's QoS settings might be lying to you.
#4605: Why Chatterbox Still Leads Open-Source TTS
We break down the architecture of Chatterbox, the open-source TTS model powering this podcast, and why it remains state of the art.