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What do frogs and proprietary software have to do with each other?
Catch the full KDE documentary now: youtube.com/watch?v=1Vyzla9m…
KDE has gotten more views in the first 48hrs than any other documentary we made, including React, Python, C++, etc. Check it out here: youtube.com/watch?v=1Vyzla9m…
25 minutes until we kick-off with the live premier of KDE: The Documentary — The Story of Free Software Underdogs. Join us!
youtube.com/watch?v=1Vyzla9m…
Join us tomorrow, October 14th, at 7:30pm CEST for the live premiere of The KDE Documentary. Link here --
youtube.com/watch?v=1Vyzla9m…
Aaron Siego led KDE Plasma and served as President of KDE e.V. Here he talks about why KDE, and free software more broadly, still matters.
Full documentary premieres October 14.
youtube.com/watch?v=bJuYlZxk…
Where does the 'K' in KDE come from!?
youtu.be/VM3X31PzzAE
The KDE documentary is out on CultRepo on October 14th.
Interesting thread from Armin, who was featured in our Python documentary and our Pi and Flask mini-docs! youtube.com/watch?v=GXJwX3tp…
The KDE Documentary trailer is out! The Full documentary drops on October 14th, exactly 30 years since Matthias Ettrich's Usenet post which launched the community.
Subscribe to CultRepo to be notified for the full release: youtube.com/@cultrepo
@kdecommunity
When Matthias Ettrich posted his initial vision in 1996, many believed matching the cohesive user experience of Windows 95 using free software was a fantasy. Today, KDE is globally recognised as one of the most powerful, mature, and unified desktop ecosystems in existence.
Learn the full story in our upcoming documentary. The trailer for the film is out on Saturday 19th!
On Oct 14th 1996, Matthias Ettrich, a CS student in Germany, posted to three Usenet groups asking for programmers to help build a real desktop for Linux.
That post led to the creation of KDE, one of the most impactful free software communities in the world.
Catch the trailer for our new documentary about KDE on Saturday 19th.
Read the original full post here: kde.org/announcements/announ…
Where is C++ used?
Watch the full C++ Documentary on our channel: youtu.be/lI7tMxzSJ7w?si=31go…
What's the best way to deal with the tidal wave of AI-generated PRs?
@badlogicgames , the creator of Pi, has an idea... 🧳🌴
Pi was created by Mario (@badlogicgames) and not Armin (@mitsuhiko). And we have the video to prove it.. 😂
Learn the origin story of everyone's favourite agent harness.
@pidotdev
youtu.be/RKHaecOi0CA
Chris Lattner, the creator of LLVM and Swift, just open-sourced a brand new programming language: Mojo. The language is designed to combine the ease of Python with the speed of C++ and Rust and is built specifically for AI development. Get a quick intro in our recent video.
@clattner_llvm @Modular
youtube.com/watch?v=V692I9PD…
Curious what we have coming out over the rest of the year? Subscribe to our channel to catch films about Pi PHP, Betterleaks, Svelte, The Internet Archive, more outtakes from C++, Java, and Python, plus many more!
@pidotdev @official_php @internetarchive @sveltejs
Hudson River Trading handles over 15% of all US equities trading. Their secret weapon? C++. Here's why: youtu.be/c5FsYUQ1yok
We recently interviewed @TimOfLegend for our upcoming Lua documentary. Turns out before Grim Fandango and Psychonauts, he accidentally confessed to pirating LucasArts games in his job interview with them. So he submitted his CV as a hand-drawn text adventure. It worked.
Long before Linux’s Tux or the GitHub Octocat, early software pioneers proved that abstract code needed a human face.
Characters like the 1976 BSD Daemon ("Beastie") and Apple's 1983 Clarus the Dogcow paved the way, proving that personality could bridge the gap between complex engineering and everyday users.
Building directly on that legacy, Duke was born in 1992.
Originally created by Joe Palrang (who later worked on Shrek and other animated movies) for Sun Microsystems’ secretive "Green Project," Duke wasn’t actually designed for Java at first. He was envisioned as an interactive, smart-agent avatar for a futuristic, handheld touch-screen home device (called the Star7).
While that specific hardware device never launched, Duke survived.
When the technology evolved into the Java programming language we know today, Duke was officially adopted as its mascot.
Check out our small ode to Duke here: youtu.be/aivMGClUsOo
