Happy #ilovefs #ilovefreesoftwareday!

Switching to #opensource is the best thing you can gift your organization, your colleagues, your users, and us, the citizens.

This is a hard work, but necessary work. You're not just migrating software - you're building democracy and freedom for future generations.

In case you would like to learn more about leading change from closed source to #FOSS, I shared my best practices recently with the audience at #fosdem https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/7YMJST-how-to-lead-change-to-open-source/

Strongly recommend against the mindset that “code quality doesn’t matter because only agents read it.”

Use AI to move faster. Ship more. Improve your products. Let it speed up development and raise the bar.

But make sure you understand the code and can stand behind its quality.

If only an agent can read and modify your codebase, you’ve outsourced ownership of your product. Many of us already depend on big platforms. Don’t add another layer of fragility.

Adapt. Just don’t give up control.

@eternalstorms Congrats! 🎊

Many folks are reflecting on Prince’s extraordinary halftime performance, the greatest of all time. What you may not know is that it was a profound, nuanced statement and a powerful reclaiming of a proud Black music tradition. Some background: https://anildash.com/2021/02/05/how-prince-won-the-super-bowl/ 

Repair Cafe Danmark shares a design for a beautiful mobile workshop #RepairCafe #Repair #OpenSource #Ikea #Cycling #DIY #CargoBike https://reparations.konsortiet.dk/2026/02/01/worlds-smallest-workshop/

Student of mine (CS) recently said she loves R because "you can tell the community is mostly non-CS. Everything is documented and explained so well".
#rstats #academicchatter

@arianexmusic Do you think you could get Nespresso to sponsor your Substack? 😇

Looks like Wipr was the number 14 top paid app in the U.S. wow 🫣

Paid apps are so tiny nowadays 😅

https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/app_store_2025_top_iphone_apps_in_the_us

RE: https://tilde.zone/@mrfry/115944465165840274

What Mr Fry said.

Great conversation in Davos with Niall Ferguson about Trump’s world order. Listen here: https://bit.ly/3LHBnsW

📸 @worldeconomicforum

These photos by Chu Weimin show the mind-boggling scale of China’s green energy buildout. “In May [2025] alone, it added enough renewable energy to power Poland, installing solar panels at a rate of roughly 100 every second.” https://kottke.org/26/01/photos-of-chinas-green-energy-transition

@arianexmusic yup!

I had this iMac! The speakers were amazing. And Markdown ❤️
https://me.dm/@anildash/115866075845121862

I never knew it was called the “Moylan arrow.” But now that I know, I will call it that. It’s such a super simple, yet super valuable innovation.

https://www.jalopnik.com/2061179/inventor-little-arrow-what-side-fuel-filler-is-on-dies/

People tend to see the worst:

In 1963, the USPS launched ZIP Codes and 2 letter state abbreviations, sparking huge backlash. Conservatives called it a step toward a "communist" style of government reducing people down to numbers.

These changes were made to accommodate the limitations of IBM mainframes at the time, which could only handle 23 chars for city, state, & zip code.

But it wasn't a communist plot! Navigating change is hard
https://www.historyassociates.com/usps-history/

“Companies is bugs.” is now load-bearing for me.
https://cloudisland.nz/@aurynn/115765877783337870

“The Global Village Construction Set is a modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts.” https://www.opensourceecology.org/gvcs/

How whales protect against #cancer, and how humans can do the same. Video touches on some advanced topics in #MolecularBiology

George Clooney is an actor.

Put him in the role of a surgeon in front of a camera, and he will do and say things the average non-surgeon viewer will agree are surgeonish. After an hour of that, we are, as average non-surgeon viewers, satisfied and entertained.

Put him in an operating theatre, and the patient will fucking die because he's not a surgeon and knows nothing about really doing surgery.

This is a post about LLMs.