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Drew DeVault's blog

  • By Drew DeVault
  • Roughly 14 posts per year
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Posts per year

Data for this chart is available in the table below
Posts per year
Year starting Posts
2022 7
2023 27
2024 4

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

So you want to compete with or replace open source
We are living through an interesting moment in source-available software.1 The open source movement has always had, and continues to have, a solid grounding in grassroots programmers building tools for themselves and forming communities around …
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Writing a Unix clone in about a month
I needed a bit of a break from “real work” recently, so I started a new programming project that was low-stakes and purely recreational. On April 21st, I set out to see how much of …
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Copyleft licenses are not “restrictive”
One may observe an axis, or a “spectrum”, along which free and open source software licenses can be organized, where one end is “permissive” and the other end is “copyleft”. It is important to acknowledge, …
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