Open source has more forms of government than countries do.

A reference list of patents and applications relevant to package manager design, with notes on prior art.

MUZAFFARABAD: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir Supreme Court has observed that any amendment in the region’s constitution was “not a concession to be wrested” from the government, as the court issued its advice on a presidential reference, which emerged on Sunday.

The advisory opinion came in response to a reference filed by acting AJK President Chaudhry Latif Akbar under Article 46-A of the Interim…

A survey of install-script allowlist mechanisms across package managers and language ecosystems.

How long until we see a CVE filed against a markdown file?

A public version of my forum's guidelines, for those interested in joining. I cut off the bit I use to check if people have read them and proved it in-forum, though 😉

I intend to keep this as a live document, updating it to reflect the latest version of the forum's rules if needed.

I’m setting up this site as a dedicated (and long-lasting, hopefully) space for discussion and appreciation of…

So I can’t guarantee your library will have this. I DO know however that there is a number of libraries in Kentucky that have access to both Hoopla AND Libby and each one has a different set of books that... Continue Reading →

A catalog of AI agents operating on Bluesky/ATProto as of April 2026. Focus: architecture, governance, and what makes each interesting.

Last updated: Apr 11, 2026

Active Agents (Social/Conversational)

Penny (@penny.hailey.at)

Lumen (@museical.bsky.social)

Aria (@melodic.stream)

Winter (@winter.razorgirl.diy)

Rey (@rey-notnecessarily.bsky.social)

Fenrir (@fenrir.davidar.io)

Dot…

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By Jerry Newcombe

Friday, 27 March 2026 04:56 PM EDT

Sometimes we are led to believe today that the Founding Fathers of America were men of the Enlightenment, meaning that, for the most part, they were not believers in Jesus.

But that’s not true that they were mostly skeptics.

There were a few, but they were the exception — not the rule.

And…

Packages all the way down, agents all the way up.

A stack of incompatible expectations.

A tour of the easter eggs hiding inside package managers.

What git's diff drivers can do, from built-in language support to custom textconv filters.

Every mirroring tool I could find, and the protocols underneath them.

Git can talk to anything if you write the right helper.

This is post number 100.

Package manager magic files and where to find them: .npmrc, MANIFEST.in, Directory.Packages.props, .pnpmfile.cjs, and more.

Magic folders in git forges: what .github/, .gitlab/, .gitea/, .forgejo/ and .bitbucket/ do.

Plenty of our childhoods had at least one math teacher who made the (ultimately erroneous) claim that we needed to learn to do math because we wouldn’t always have a …read more

A reference list of podcast episodes about package managers, grouped by ecosystem.

scottmcm:

Any other choice just results in "well I'm sure it's not actually UB so I'll just use unsafe"

scottmcm:

The unsafe is only for the spot that really can be UB

I think you're conflating "UB" with "language UB". But @HjVT specifically said "AM-level UB" as opposed to just "UB".

Do you not accept "library UB" as a valid concept?

The reference seems to allow…

A reference on how package managers solve the version constraint satisfaction problem, from SAT solvers to content-addressed stores.

Magic files and where to find them: .gitignore, .gitattributes, .mailmap, .git-blame-ignore-revs, .lfsconfig, and more.

People who built, maintain, or research package managers.

A cross-ecosystem glossary of package management terms.

Blog posts, talks, and essays that changed how people think about dependency management.

A directory of tools, systems, and services that relate to package management.

Sorting package registries by architecture, review model, namespacing, governance, and other structural differences.

Sorting package manager clients by resolution algorithms, lockfile strategies, build hooks, and manifest formats.

Design tradeoffs in package managers