Dries Buytaert of Drupal fame blogged

AI creates asymmetric pressure on Open Source

How Open Source communities can adapt to AI-generated contributions without overwhelming Open Source maintainers

So yeah @Greg K-H received the prize for excellence in Open Source 2026. Post and photos will follow.

Getting ready for #EOSAwards26

the Prize for Excellence in Open Source 2026 is handed out tonight in Brussels by the European Open Source Academy, and it is my honor as president to hand over this award to a truly worthy winner. I am sure you will agree with me once you learn who it is. Tonight.

I started a documentation repo for #FOSDEM advise - for new and old visitors, attendees and speakers. I figure we can crowdsource it so bring your pull-requests. I will greatly appreciate help. If not, I will populate it myself slowly over time but it won't be as good.

GitHub

GitHub - bagder/FOSDEM: Advice for FOSDEM attendees

Advice for FOSDEM attendees. Contribute to bagder/FOSDEM development by creating an account on GitHub.

On this day, twenty-five years ago, we shipped curl 7.6. The first #curl release with IPv6 support!

it sounds like the Log4J bug-bounty might soon close as well:

daniel.haxx.se

The end of the curl bug-bounty

tldr: an attempt to reduce the terror reporting. There is no longer a curl bug-bounty program. It officially stops on January 31, 2026. After havin...

The end of the #curl bug-bounty

daniel.haxx.se

The end of the curl bug-bounty

tldr: an attempt to reduce the terror reporting. There is no longer a curl bug-bounty program. It officially stops on January 31, 2026. After havin...

I just found this and I just wanted to say thanks #ffmpeg! (screenshot from the Nazi site)

quote of the day "Daniel Stenberg, the main developer of one of the most useful cURL tools"