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This Week's Finds
Oct 12–18, 2026
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The second major version of the open-source coding agent from Anomaly, the team behind SST, which works with any model provider from the terminal, a desktop app, IDE extensions and the web. One background service now runs on your machine, and the terminal interface, web interface, desktop app and your own scripts all talk to it through a rebuilt API and a new @opencode/client package; it can also be exposed to other machines and paired with other apps. Code Mode turns every connected MCP server or OpenAPI endpoint into functions the agent calls from a short JavaScript script, so several tool calls happen in one round trip; subagents and shell commands can run in the background, with a hotkey to move running work there; nearly every feature is one of more than 80 internal plugins that hot-reload; and @opencode/sdk embeds the agent as a library. Plugins written for 1.x and the old server API stop working, version 2 replaces the version 1 binary, and opencode upgrade --major moves you across; the migration guide notes that it no longer runs language servers, reads AGENTS.md but not CLAUDE.md, and lets the agent reach paths outside the project without asking by default. MIT and free; Anomaly sells pay-as-you-go model access through OpenCode Zen, starting with a 20 US dollar balance, and Go plans for curated open models at 10 or 40 dollars a month. 217k stars as of 19 October 2026
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A free office suite from Aboard, the company of Paul Ford and Rich Ziade, where the link is the document - ten small apps, namely a word processor, outliner, presentation builder, spreadsheet, calculator, pixel drawing tool, diagram maker, animator, calendar and trip planner, any of which can be embedded in another. Each document is Markdown-style text compressed into the part of the URL after the hash sign, which browsers never send to the server, so there are no accounts and nothing is saved unless you keep it in the browser; the app keeps links under about 2,000 characters, enough for a couple of pages or a few slides, and there is no image upload or real-time collaboration. Optional short links are encrypted with a key that stays in the link and expire after an hour to a month, documents can be password-protected, and everything exports in the browser to PDF, PNG, HTML and Markdown, with DOCX, XLSX, CSV, PPTX and OPML for the matching apps. Share preview cards are the exception, sending the first page, title and opening text unencrypted, and a document stays in browser history unless it has a password. No telemetry, and it can be self-hosted on Cloudflare or as a single Node process with SQLite. MIT, free. 435 stars as of 19 October 2026
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A Wayland desktop for Linux in the style of iOS 6-era skeuomorphism, written in C on wlroots 0.18 as its own compositor, with the desktop drawn as a walnut desk in a ray-traced room lit by one lamp. Windows are sheets of paper whose dog-eared corner folds them away, maximises them or crumples and tosses them; the dock is a drawer, the app launcher a bookshelf of ring binders with an index book, notifications land in a post box, and settings sit in a control panel of meters, a volume knob and levers for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. A desk calendar, a memo pad and a clock with media controls come with it, the lock screen is a front door that follows the time of day and optionally the local weather, and the apps themselves are borrowed - Xfce Terminal, Thunar, Mousepad, Firefox - under a matching GTK theme and icon set. Install scripts cover Debian 13, Ubuntu 24.04 and 26.04, Arch and Fedora 43 and 44 and their derivatives. Beta 0.1.2, released 15 October; the release notes list missing pieces such as layer-shell, so Waybar does not run, and HiDPI scaling for apps. MIT, free. 1.2k stars as of 19 October 2026
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A TypeScript library from Obsidian, built by Steph Ango to render diagrams quickly and match the app's theme, that turns Mermaid syntax into SVG with its own layout engine instead of Mermaid.js. It covers every diagram type built into Mermaid 12.1.0 - flowcharts, sequence, class, state and ER diagrams, Gantt charts, git graphs, mind maps, kanban boards, Sankey, C4, architecture and Wardley maps among them - but not ZenUML or external Mermaid plugins. Styling comes from CSS variables for background, text, lines, surfaces, accent, font and corner radius, plus eight series colours for charts, so colours change without a re-render; Mermaid themes do not apply. Rendering is synchronous and returns an SVG string, measuring text with canvas in the browser and with a built-in width table elsewhere, so it runs on a server with no headless browser, and diagram types can be imported one at a time or loaded lazily. The site measures 230 kB gzipped against 1.6 MB for Mermaid.js, with no dependencies against 23. Node positions differ from Mermaid's, HTML labels and click callbacks are not supported, and there is no command-line tool. MIT, free. 2.0k stars as of 19 October 2026
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The October release of Libreboot, Leah Rowe's coreboot distribution that replaces the proprietary BIOS or UEFI firmware on supported Intel, AMD and ARM64 computers with free boot firmware and ready-made images. UEFI is now the default on nearly all 64-bit boards with at least 4 MB of flash, down to the old ThinkPad X200 and T500, through MrChromebox's EDK2 payload, with Windows 10 and 11, Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and 9front tested, GRUB and a SeaBIOS legacy mode still reachable from the boot menu, TPM support enabled and option ROMs for modern graphics cards switched on. All 233 Intel and AMD Chromebooks that MrChromebox supports are imported, but source-only and mostly untested, and new boards include the ThinkPad X270 and X280, the Dell OptiPlex 5050 and 3040 and a Supermicro X11SSH-F. The project also stops accepting AI-generated contributions. The install guide warns that moving from factory firmware usually means flashing the chip externally with a clip and programmer and can brick the machine; Minifree, Rowe's company, sells preinstalled machines and an installation service. It is not fully blob-free, shipping CPU microcode and neutering rather than removing the Intel ME on newer boards. GPL-3.0 build system, free, funded by donations through Software in the Public Interest and by Minifree sales
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