Open Source

Guides, tools, and insights on open source software, including contributions, licensing, and best practices for collaborative development.

WordPress Plugin Development That Survives Core Updates

Most WordPress plugin development follows the same arc. Somebody needs a booking form, a feed importer or an extra field at checkout, a developer writes it, it works, everyone moves on. Two years later the site is stuck on an old version of WordPress because nobody is confident that plugin will survive an update, and...

Drupal Hosting: What Actually Runs Drupal Well

Drupal hosting is where most of the “Drupal is slow” reputation comes from, and it is almost always a purchasing decision rather than a software problem. A site gets built properly, then goes live on a plan priced for a brochure site with a handful of PHP files. The result is a content management system with a serious...

Moving Off OpenAI: What an Open-Weight Switch Costs

The case for moving off OpenAI got considerably stronger during 2026. Open-weight models reached a level where the quality gap on ordinary production work became narrow, published pricing undercut the frontier providers, and the weights themselves became downloadable, which turns a supplier relationship into an option....

Self-Hosting Kimi K3: Hardware, Cost and Sovereignty

Self-hosting Kimi K3 became technically possible on 27 July 2026, when Moonshot AI published the weights for a 2.8-trillion-parameter model alongside production inference support. A great many organisations read that news and concluded they could now run frontier-class reasoning on their own hardware and stop paying...

Software Licensing Models: An Enterprise Guide 2026

Choosing between software licensing models is one of the most consequential strategic decisions founders make when building enterprise applications in 2026. Pick the wrong contract format and you can limit your distribution reach, restrict SaaS scaling opportunities, or accidentally force yourself to share proprietary...