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Open Source · 20 Sept 2026 · 5 min read

Relay: An Open-Source Control Plane for DBOS Applications.

DBOS Transact delivers lightweight durable execution, but upstream coordination relies on a proprietary control plane. Relay is a clean-room, open-source Conductor alternative with multi-SDK wire compatibility, dual-engine storage scaling from embedded SQLite to clustered PostgreSQL, and zero cloud lock-in.

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Open Source · 12 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Reads like AI.

"It reads like AI" has become open source's way of losing an argument without having one. A request to maintainers: judge the comment, not your guess about who typed it.

Linux · 11 Sept 2026 · 10 min

coprctl: a friendlier command line for Fedora Copr

A command line and agent interface for the Fedora Copr build service, and what a full build, fix and debug cycle looks like with it.

Open Source · 22 Jun 2025 · 7 min

A Pragmatist's Guide to Open Source Licensing: From Fear to Innovation

Every modern software product is a tapestry woven with threads of open source code. From the operating system it runs on to the libraries that power its features, OSS is the engine of innovation. Yet for many startups, product managers, and even seasoned engineers, the world of OSS licenses is a landscape of fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD). The most common fear? "If we use a single open source library, we'll be forced to open-source our entire proprietary codebase." Let's be clear: This is