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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It depends. Probably. Maybe?
This #ForkloreFriday meet Ankur Ankan with pgmpy.
pgmpy is a Python library for building models that reason under uncertainty. Causal and probabilistic modeling using graphical models!
Q: One FOSS maintainer lesson for your younger self?
Be selective on feature requests. Don’t try to do everything.
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https://forklore.in/maintainers/ankurankan
I love PDF? I love privacy too.
This #ForkloreFriday, meet BenToPDF and Alam!
BentoPDF is a privacy first PDF toolkit that runs entirely in YOUR browser. It’s self hostable and allows you to manipulate, edit, merge, and process PDF files without any server-side processing.
Q: One FOSS maintainer lesson for your younger self
A lot of open issues in your project is a good thing. That just shows people are using it
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This Friday the 13th, we bring you three for one!
Meet Arya K. with Project Segfault, Mozhi and Internet Chowkidar!
Q: One FOSS maintainer lesson for your younger self
Don’t take part in more things than you can handle
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This week in Forklore, meet Nishant and 
- a solid, clean pomodoro app to keep you from turning into a squirrel.
Q:One FOSS maintainer lesson for your younger self
Learn Git/VCS in general, in-depth. It will save you a lot of time later.
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This #ForkloreFriday, meet Aravinda VK and among other things, Chitra!
Chitra is a 2D graphics library that lets you write simple D code to generate 2D graphics! Head to Forklore, check out the profile in full!
Q: Why do you do it? Why do you bother maintaining a FOSS project?
I was introduced to FOSS when I joined local Linux user groups and participated in Linux install fests from 2006. I was very amazed by the idea of publishing our code for others to use and contribute. Since then, I have been contributing and maintaining many open-source projects.
With Forklore, we bring you confessions, quirks, and the occasional rant from India’s open source keepers. #UnitedByFOSS
Come check out the profile in full: Aravinda VK | Forklore
This week in Forklore, meet Sathiya Moorthi Periasamy Thuran and Webi!
Webi provides hassle-free, predictable installs for quick dev environment setups, practically a one-stop vending machine for all tools you’ll need.
Q: One FOSS maintainer lesson for your younger self
Doing documentation chore does not make your contribution less worthy.
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Meet Mohammed Zubair Ahmed and Mattermost!
Mattermost is an open-source collaboration platform for secure team communication, project coordination, and workflow integration. Think Slack, but without that nagging feeling that maybe Salesforce is reading your DMs to upsell the suite :')
Q: One FOSS maintainer lesson for your younger self
Maintaining is not just about writing code. Good communication, reviewing consistently, and documentation matter just as much as shipping features.
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