Vibe-coding is all the rage today. Who needs a developer when you can get an AI to develop an application for you? There are scads of application development tools now that promise to create that app you always wanted -- and surprisingly, these often work!
Call me a radical, but I don't think a handful of billionaires controlling the majority of a country's wealth is a good thing. I don't think the ultra-wealthy need more benefits at the expense of everyone else.
When you work on a team, it's useful to have notifications go to a chat room where you can coordinate any necessary action. Reviewing a comment before publishing, seeing stories as they are written, getting notified of new orders are the kinds of things we like having in a shared room.
Today's website designs tend to use photos and images to make them look good. If you have your own photography or in-house illustrator, that's almost always going to give you the best result. But if you don't, this is something that can be automated with Drupal's AI module.
The AI Pixabay Automator can search Pixabay for relevant stock images that are free to use, and attach them to an image field.
The AI Image Generator can take your content and feed it into an image generator.
To wrap up our round-up of awesome open source packages, and to get back to business, our final selection for the year is NextCloud.
In the spirit of the holidays, we're doing a few posts on Free/Open Source projects that we use every day, that isn't what we sell.
Software as a Service (SaaS) is all the rage these days.
A month or so ago, this question came up in a
LedgerSMB is an open source accounting and financial package. Freelock has used LedgerSMB for its bookkeeping practically since the project began, forking an earlier open source project called SQL Ledger.
A couple weeks ago NPR's Planet Money and This American Life had some really great episodes about the broken patent system. These are great stories for people who don't understand why patents are a problem, but they overlooked a couple of crucial points.
