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1. The First Black Software Engineer in America: Technology and Race

   A historical examination of technology and race in America.

2. End of 10: A Windows 10 to Linux Upcycling Campaign

   The community manager of the KDE Eco project outlines the harms associated with software-driven hardware obsolescence, and shows how GNU/Linux is the solution.

3. Fediverse Projects

   A collection of Fediverse projects.

4. Free Software Can Strengthen the US Healthcare System

   The Free Software Foundation discusses the problems with the US healthcare system and highlights how free software can improve the situation.

5. Debian 13: My List of Exciting New Features

   A nice selection of some of the cool new features in Debian 13.

6. Introducing DuckLake

   A fantastic talk about the evolution of the Lakehouse/Lakehouse formats, and how the DuckLake format aims to improve upon its predecessors.

7. More Comprehensible List Comprehensions

   Suggestions for making list comprehensions more approachable, and examples of how to construct complicated list comprehensions.

8. Tom Dyson - The State of Wagtail

   The founder and CTO of Torchbox explores the current state of the Wagtail content management system.

9. Pandas + Dask DataFrame 2.0 - Comparison to Spark, DuckDB, and Polars

   A review of the latest improvements to the Dask library and how it complements other components of the PyData stack.

10. The Story of The Oregon Trail

    A wonderful documentary about one of the most beloved games of all time.