Open Source & Linux blogs

Mozilla's official blog, with Firefox announcements, browser policy, privacy positions, and company news.

Top post: Mozilla – We need more than deplatforming (2021)

GitHub's official blog, covering product updates, security notices, platform availability, and developer features.

Top post: No Cookie for You

Mozilla engineers explain web technologies and Firefox internals, including WebAssembly, CSS engines, and rendering.

Top post: Private by Design: How We Built Firefox Sync

Jamie Zawinski, a veteran programmer of Netscape and Mozilla fame, writes on software, the web, and his own projects.

Top post: The Rise of "Worse is Better"

The Signal Foundation's blog announces features and explains design choices for the Signal encrypted messenger, including privacy technology previews.

Top post: Why federated protocols don't work (2016)

The WebKit project's blog from Apple and contributors covers the browser engine behind Safari, including features, tracking prevention, and JIT work.

Top post: WebKit Feature Status

Tailscale's company blog explains how its mesh VPN works, with deep technical posts on NAT traversal, plus product and pricing updates.

Top post: How NAT Traversal Works (2020)

Eric S. Raymond's personal site, hosting essays on hacker culture, open source, and Unix design, including The Cathedral and the Bazaar.

Top post: How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

Daniel Stenberg, lead developer of curl, writes about maintaining the project, security reports, and internet protocols.

Top post: Death by a Thousand Slops

Richard Stallman's personal site, with his political notes, free software writing, and descriptions of how he computes.

Top post: How I do my computing

The blog of Let's Encrypt, the nonprofit certificate authority that issues free TLS certificates, covering policies, rate limits, and statistics.

Top post: Challenge types

Drew DeVault, an open-source developer behind Sway and SourceHut, writes about software, licensing, browsers, and programming languages.

Top post: The reckless, infinite scope of web browsers

News site covering Firefox, browsers, Windows, and privacy tools, with practical how-tos on settings and extensions.

Top post: Each Firefox download has a unique identifier

Facebook's engineering blog on infrastructure, open source projects, Haskell, Mercurial, storage, and licensing.

Top post: Scaling Mercurial at Facebook

The official Rust project blog, with release news, roadmaps, language design posts, and survey results.

Top post: Fearless concurrency with Rust

Aggregated blogs by GNOME developers and designers on desktop design, software, profiling, and the project's direction.

Top post: Restyling apps at scale

Salvatore Sanfilippo (antirez), creator of Redis, writes about systems programming, Redis design, and software development.

Top post: Tcl the Misunderstood (2006)

Brendan Gregg, a performance engineer known for his work at Netflix, writes about Linux performance analysis, eBPF tracing, and flame graphs.

Top post: Linux Performance

Red Hat's developer site publishes articles on Linux, compilers, containers, Kubernetes, and RHEL developer subscriptions.

Top post: No-Cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux Individual Developer Subscription: FAQs

Chris Siebenmann, a sysadmin at the University of Toronto, writes short technical notes on Unix, Go, storage, and running servers.

Top post: I think you shouldn't digitally sign things casually

The Internet Archive's official blog, covering the Wayback Machine, digitized books, web preservation policy, and legal disputes.

Top post: The Fight Continues

Eric S. Raymond, open source author and hacker culture figure, writes on programming, version control, politics, and open source.

Top post: Eric S. Raymond

Andrew "bunnie" Huang, a hardware hacker, writes about open hardware, chip inspection, manufacturing in Shenzhen, and his legal and design projects.

Top post: On Hacking MicroSD Cards

Dave Winer, a long-time software developer and RSS pioneer, blogs about web standards, open social networks, and blogging itself.

Top post: Manifesto: Rules for standards-makers

Simon Tatham, a programmer and author of PuTTY, publishes software, a puzzle collection, and essays on C programming and bug reports.

Top post: Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection

Google's Android team announces platform changes, developer policies, and security features, including developer verification and sideloading rules.

Top post: Google adds 24-hour wait and mandatory reboot to Android sideloading flow

Jeff Geerling writes about Raspberry Pi, homelab hardware, clustering, benchmarks, and Apple and Linux tinkering.

Top post: I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud

Groklaw was a site run by Pamela Jones (PJ) that covered legal cases affecting open source, notably SCO v. IBM and Oracle v. Google.

Top post: Forced Exposure

Percona's company blog on open source database operations, covering MySQL and PostgreSQL performance, schema changes, indexing and tooling.

Top post: Pt online schema change

Filippo Valsorda, a cryptography engineer and Go maintainer, writes about cryptography, security tools like age, and open source work.

Top post: The most backdoor-looking bug I’ve ever seen (2021)

Peteris Krumins writes about Unix tools, Vim, bit hacks and programming, and also runs Browserling and its online tools.

Top post: Why Vim uses hjkl keys as arrow keys

The CoreOS company blog on its container-focused Linux distribution, etcd, fleet, rkt and Kubernetes tooling.

Top post: CoreOS is building a container runtime, Rocket

The official Django project blog, with release announcements, security fixes, roadmap updates and fellowship news for the Python web framework.

Top post: Support the Django Fellowship Program

The Software Freedom Conservancy is a nonprofit that supports open source projects and pursues GPL compliance, including lawsuits against Vizio and Tesla.

Top post: Give Up GitHub

Matthew Garrett is a Linux developer who writes about UEFI Secure Boot, firmware, power management, TPMs and free software licensing.

Top post: Implementing UEFI Secure Boot in Fedora

Colin Percival is the founder of Tarsnap and a FreeBSD developer, and writes on cryptography, security and operating systems.

Top post: Hacker News Daily

Google's open source program office announces releases and projects such as Logica, Jpegli, Abseil, KataOS and OpenCensus.

Top post: Jpegli: A new JPEG coding library

Lennart Poettering, creator of systemd, writes on init systems, socket activation, file locking and Linux boot security.

Top post: Rethinking PID 1 (2010)

Chris Wellons writes about C, Emacs, low-level programming tools and small software projects such as Endlessh.

Top post: Prospecting for Hash Functions

Official blog of Docker, announcing releases, features, acquisitions, and container orchestration plans.

Top post: Containers and Docker: how secure are they?

Linus Åkesson writes about programming, Unix internals, music and retro hardware, including The TTY Demystified and Kernighan's Lever.

Top post: The TTY demystified (2008)

Supabase's company blog covers its open-source Postgres-based backend platform, including auth, edge functions, pgvector and Postgres tooling.

Top post: Postgres WASM

Steve Klabnik, a Rust community figure, writes about Rust, open source maintenance, WebAssembly and language design.

Top post: Rust and the Language Strangeness Budget

ClickHouse's company blog covers its open-source analytics database, with engineering posts on performance, large deployments and new features.

Top post: ClickHouse: We Stand with Ukraine

Zed Shaw, a programmer and author of Learn Python the Hard Way, writes about programming, statistics and open source.

Top post: Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All (2005)

Trail of Bits, a security research and consulting firm, writes about cryptography, program analysis, VPN tooling, and smart contract audits.

Top post: RSA is a fragile cryptosystem

Vercel's blog for Next.js, the React framework, announcing releases, features, RFCs, and security issues.

Top post: Next.js Conference Site Is Multiplayer

Ted Unangst, an OpenBSD developer, writes about C, security, cryptography, and operating system internals.

Top post: Honk: An ActivityPub server with minimal setup and support costs

The Asahi Linux project, which ports Linux to Apple Silicon Macs, posts progress reports, GPU reverse engineering notes, and install information.

Top post: About

Xah Lee writes tutorials and essays on Emacs, keyboard layouts, ergonomics, Lisp, and programming languages.

Top post: History of Emacs and vi Keys (2010)

Joyent's blog covers its cloud platform, SmartOS, Manta object storage, and Node.js production experience.

Top post: The Power of a Pronoun

David A. Wheeler writes on software security, open source, and safe coding, and is the creator of the SLOCCount tool.

Top post: Countering Trusting Trust Through Diverse Double-Compiling (DDC)

The CNCF blog covers the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which hosts Kubernetes, Prometheus, and other open source cloud infrastructure projects.

Top post: CNCF and Synadia Align on Securing the Future of the Nats.io Project

News site covering the OpenBSD operating system, with release notes, security advisories such as OpenSSH bugs, and developer write-ups.

Top post: Cgi

Justine Tunney writes on portable executables, Cosmopolitan Libc, pledge on Linux, and fast LLM inference on CPUs.

Top post: Actually Portable Executable

Microsoft's team blog on the Windows command line, covering terminal, WSL, winget, and related tools.

Top post: Announcing WSL 2

The GNU Guix project blog covers the Guix package manager, system distribution, and work on bootstrapping software from source.

Top post: Full-Source Bootstrap: Building Linux from source all the way down (2023)

Personal site of Matt Mullenweg, WordPress co-founder and Automattic CEO, covering WordPress, open source, and his companies.

Top post: 1.0 Is The Loneliest Number

Daniel Miessler, a security professional, writes about infosec, Unix tools, tutorials, and more recently AI.

Top post: Building a Successful Information Security Career (2008)

Bryan Cantrill, systems engineer and DTrace co-creator, writes about operating systems, performance, Rust, and software economics.

Top post: The relative performance of C and Rust