Built with open source
This whole site stands on the shoulders of 23-plus open-source projects—maintained by people who gave their work away so the rest of us could build. From the framework that serves every page to the tiny tool that keeps the code tidy and the one that drew the favicon, none of it would exist without them. With gratitude. 🧮
If you maintain one of these—thank you. Consider sponsoring a maintainer you rely on.
Runs the site
The web stack every page and request is served through.
The web framework the whole app is written in—every route, page, and API.
The ASGI toolkit under FastAPI—routing, responses, and the test client.
The fast ASGI server that actually runs the site in production.
Parses and validates incoming request data behind FastAPI.
Reads the form posts—login, contact, and tool submissions.
Renders an Original Content piece's markdown body—headings, fenced code blocks, tables—into the shared article template.
Stores & searches
Where your archive lives and how it's searched.
The entire database is a single SQLite file, with FTS5 powering full-text search across your archive.
A vector-search extension living in the same SQLite file—powers FP&A Buddy's semantic retrieval alongside FTS5.
The language it's all written in—and its standard library does a lot of the quiet heavy lifting.
Reads the web
Fetching articles and feeds, and making sense of messy pages.
Fetches article pages and RSS/Atom feeds.
Parses real-world HTML—the fallback full-text extractor.
The preferred extractor—pulls clean article text out of a noisy page.
The fast C-backed parser the extractors lean on.
Drives headless Chromium to capture the Software directory's homepage screenshots.
Intelligence
The AI behind enrichment, FP&A Buddy, drafting, and dedupe verification.
Built & kept tidy
The tools that make and maintain the site—including a couple we leaned on right here.
Runs the test suite that guards every change.
Spreads the test suite across CPUs in CI so it doesn't run single-threaded.
Keeps the wire clean—catches unused imports and dead code on every push (just wired into CI).
Drew the compass-rose favicons (the PNG and .ico) from a few lines of code.
The HTTP client powering the test client.
Type & craft
The look of the site.
Built with open-source love. Icons by Simple Icons (CC0).