mblaze: a set of Unix utilities for processing and interacting with mail messages which are stored in maildir folders.

Toot: a CLI and TUI tool for interacting with Mastodon instances from the command line.

Newsboat: an RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console.

Dino: a modern open-source chat client (XMPP) for the desktop.

podget: a simple podcast aggregator optimized for running as a scheduled background job (i.e. cron).

eldood: lightweight tool to find dates where everyone is free.

snac: a simple, minimalistic ActivityPub instance.

beancount: double-entry accounting from text files.

Pass: a terminal based standard unix password manager.

• podget: TUI podcast aggregator, implemented as a couple thousand lines of bash
• mblaze: similar to mh - a suite of simple unix tools to work with email
• sxiv: lightweight image viewer
• pass: TUI password manager following the unix philosophy
• khard, khal, todoman and vdirsyncer: contact manager, calendar client, todolist and syncer, which are relatively simply implemented

I have read so many posts like this, that try to explain why their company is a special case and why it could never happen to them, only to see the same thing happen again and again.

Tailscale are trying to insert themselves into the stack and become the go-to choice for this kind of networking. When their customers are dependent on it, of course they’ll start extracting rent and capturing as much as they can.

That’s their right, but it’s also a little condescending to pretend otherwise.

I for one would love to throw money at Mozilla, or any alternative, that has experienced developers behind it, doesn’t have conflicts of interest and acts on behalf of its users. This is why I donate to Servo, Ladybird and Dillo too (I know one of these is not like the others 😄).

I don’t think they’d reach their current levels of funding through donations, but it might be possible to get enough together to keep it on life support.

I know this wouldn’t be perfect, but surely better than losing it completely.

This was a good watch. I liked the emphasis that you’re not paying for code per se, but paying to support a specific maintainer who is developing some code. In that context, already having a community around you, and doing a bit of self-promotion is important.

The same authour has another interesting video about the weird incentives around feature request bounties, which I enjoyed as well.