Software gets abandoned all the time. A maintainer moves on, a startup shuts down, a vendor retires an API, a plugin stops getting updates. The code that depended on it doesn't disappear. It keeps running in production, quietly piling up risk, until something breaks. Cars have an aftermarket for exactly this situation. Once the original maker stops supplying parts, other … [Read more...] about Aftermarket.dev Is Where Abandoned Software Gets a Second Life
Open Source
Rewriter.org Is the Natural Home for Open-Source Code Migration
Every codebase carries migrations nobody wants to do by hand. A framework ships a new major version. GitHub deprecates an Actions syntax. A config format changes. An internal API gets renamed across four hundred files. Teams either grind through it manually or write one-off scripts they throw away afterwards. Rewriter.org is the name for the tool that makes those migrations … [Read more...] about Rewriter.org Is the Natural Home for Open-Source Code Migration
altsql.org
SQL is fifty years old and the ecosystem around it has never been more active. Distributed engines, query layers over object storage, SQL interfaces on non-relational systems, and a continuous supply of alternatives to the incumbent databases. On the .org the open-source reading comes forward, and that's where a great deal of the interesting work in this space actually … [Read more...] about altsql.org
newdb.org
New DB is exactly how engineers talk about the perpetual state of the database world. There is always a new one, the space has been in continuous ferment for fifteen years, and the question of which to use is asked constantly. The name fits a database news and comparison resource, a benchmarking project, an open-source database, a directory of engines, or a technical … [Read more...] about newdb.org
opensocialweb.com
The open social web is the actual name of a real movement. ActivityPub, Mastodon, Bluesky and the AT Protocol, Threads federating, the W3C standards work behind all of it. The phrase is what the people building this stuff call the thing they're building. That's the whole case. This isn't a speculative concept name, it's the established term for an architecture that major … [Read more...] about opensocialweb.com