Hello! I'm Dan, a UK based full stack web developer with a love of open source software. Most of my free time is spent working on BookStack, playing video-games or getting distracted by one of many hobbies like 3D printing.
I primarily develop in PHP using Laravel, with VueJS being my front-end framework of choice, but I also dabble in Go, NodeJS, TypeScript and Android development.
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An easy-to-use and free platform for sharing documentation.
Evaluating the actual FOSS status of projects.
A simple twitter-feed-style RSS aggregator.
A system for managing batch sends to subscriber lists.
A basic HTTP/JSON based monitoring system.
An app for viewing and calculating thermocouple info.
An app to convert between RTD resistance and temperature.
More projects can be found on my Codeberg profile.
I'm been designing and #3dprinting increasingly more difficult treat puzzles for my #cat Ben.
The plan is that, after enough iterations, he will replace AI.
I wrote up my response into a blog post last night:
https://danb.me/blog/opensource-sub-rules/
Then this morning I removed myself as a moderator.
Life is too short to be stressing about subreddit moderation drama.
Wonderful, some subreddit drama for a Sunday afternoon.
For those coming from Reddit to scope out my profile, angry about /r/opensource changes, I've shared an initial comment here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1xf4y6k/comment/19rn02ocx5fpe/?context=3
Prusa have continued to breach their own GPLv3 license. I have written up details which include their reasoning, and why this matters, into a blogpost:
Chainguard have also raised over $700M in VC funding.
IMO, it would be more productive if they conceded to the inevitable unsustainable VC lifecycle, and donate whatever cash is left to the real heroes, like the PHP core team, community distro teams, and distro packagers, rather than making their lives more stressful to jump at marketing opportunities.
Glad to see pushback in the comments of the Chainguard CEO's explanation post on LinkedIn, after they broke embargo for the PHP fixes yesterday:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7518756994284077056/
I've been frustrated by Chainguard before when moderating the /r/opensource sub, due to their CEO's repeated attempts at marketing via scare-mongering news articles. which just so happen to feature Chainguard.
IT workers today:
For those using my RSS-reader app, new images are available to address the critical PHP issues:
Pull the new image (latest or v2.2.4 tag) and re-create your containers!
Creality are also starting to use Prusa's non-open-source "Open Community License".
I've called them out on it early:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Creality/comments/1xaq8q6/comment/phvmjju/
Let's see of they respond better than Prusa!
It's totally fun that the EU Cyber Resilience Act is forcing 5 years of required support, just as AI is making the future of software development as uncertain as ever 😑
Prusa seem to be temporarily ignoring GPLv3 obligations to share sources under the reasoning of waiting for wider customer deployment due to it containing security patches:
https://www.reddit.com/r/prusa3d/comments/1x6lypp/comment/pgwffjc/
I'm interested in getting people's view on this:
As winter approaches, the beast returns to his cave
My failed attempt to get a home battery installed:
Perforce are starting to ask communities for input for next year's "State of Open Source Report" (In partnership with @osi and @EclipseFdn).
A warning: The results are usually gated behind a form requesting a lot of personal details (with lacking justification), and they previously performed a copyright takedown against me when I attempted to directly share the results with others:
https://danb.me/blog/perforce-open-source-report-link-takedown/
Review of my HP OmniBook 7 Aero laptop after six months of use:
TL;DR: Better than expected for the £700 price and for being a HP device.
Also, A reminder that Bitwarden have a history of warning flags when it comes to respecting FOSS:
"Bitwarden remains committed to open source security and transparency" says Bitwarden as they move to primarily distribute non-open-source clients:
Companies will always downplay their move along the rights ratchet (as per https://meshedinsights.com/2021/02/02/rights-ratchet/ by @webmink )
What I worked on in September:
TL;DR: Mainly the BookStack v26.09 release.
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| 08:24:23 | Hi, searching for local singles in the area. Anyone there? |
| 08:26:38 | I expected a lot more from this site. The articles skim the surface of topics without actually saying anything useful. |
| 08:28:53 | Bookmark added. This is exactly the sort of site the internet needs more of. |
| 08:31:08 | I've bookmarked your website and plan on visiting it often. The articles alone are worth the repeat visits! |
| 08:33:23 | What a brilliant site you've built here. Already told my mates about it, they're gonna love it. |