This week in Forklore, meet Safedep and Abhisek Datta
Built to help protect against open source software supply chain attacks, if open-source is a buffet, SafeDep is your food-safety inspector 
Q: If your repo had a theme song, what would it be?
Paranoid by Black Sabbath.
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A 1+1 this #ForkloreFriday, meet Murtaza Aliakbar and Mohammed Hussian of Rethink DNS!
Rethink DNS is an open-source DNS and firewall toolkit that gives you control over your internet traffic, from blocking ads/trackers/malware to encrypting DNS lookups and stopping noisy apps. All this and more, without collecting any of your data
Q: Which file in your project would you most like to set on fire?
- Costs a lot of money:
server-node.js.- Causes a lot of pain:
alg.go.- Unconditionally, every single YAML & TOML file! God dammit.
BraveVpnService.kt - I open it only when the stars align and logs are kind.
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P.S. - Rethink DNS is a FOSS United Grantee. Check out the FU Grants program here!
This week in #ForkloreFriday meet Poorna and Mujeeb Rahman K
Poorna is an open-source Malayalam keyboard layout that supports the full Unicode character set, making typing every Malayalam character easy across platforms.
If your repo had a theme song, what would it be?
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For the opening #ForkloreFriday of 2026, we have Shubham Kumar and Twig!
Twig is a terminal-based viewer for JSON and YAML that helps you navigate deeply nested data, almost like a magical magnifying glass for your files, intuitive and fast.
Q: Which file in your project would you most like to set on fire?
The original core data-handling file from the early versions.
It grew organically, solved problems just in time, and now exists purely to remind me why refactors are inevitable.
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This week in #Forklore meet AltSendme and Tony Antony!
AltSendme is an open-source, peer-to-peer file transfer tool with zero fuss(no clouds, no accounts, no size limits AND end-to-end encrypted!)
Q:One FOSS maintainer lesson for your younger self
It’s not scary as you think it is.
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