Apr 27 · 5 min read · So you fine-tuned a model, ran some abliteration passes, maybe merged a few LoRAs together, and now you want to publish it. Cool. But did you check the license on every upstream model you touched? I've been watching the open-weight AI community long ...
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Mar 25 · 4 min read · What Perception Does Perception is a media intelligence dashboard. It ingests articles from 128 RSS feeds, scores them by relevance and trending signals, and surfaces the ones that matter through a React dashboard backed by Firestore and a FastAPI MC...
Join discussionMar 21 · 9 min read · You ask your AI agent to solve a PDF generation problem. Five minutes later, it has installed pandoc (GPL-2.0), pulled a WASM-based converter with ambiguous licensing, and resolved a dependency from a
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Mar 16 · 5 min read · Case Study: Choosing Source-Available Licensing as a Maintainer in 2026 I run a small open-source tool used by about 4,200 developers. We ship a CLI and a tiny web UI. For years we used MIT and moved fast. Then a few things happened in 2025 that forc...
Join discussionMar 16 · 5 min read · Case Study: Choosing Source-Available Licensing as a Maintainer in 2026 I run a small open-source tool used by about 4,200 developers. We ship a CLI and a tiny web UI. For years we used MIT and moved fast. Then a few things happened in 2025 that forc...
Join discussionFeb 27 · 2 min read · Most .NET developers implement license validation. Very few bind that license to the machine. Here's why that gap is costing them. Quick License Manager (QLM) exposes this via GetComputerID, which generates a fingerprint from hardware attributes. Whe...
Join discussionFeb 9 · 2 min read · If you reinstall Windows often or upgrade hardware, you’ve probably seen this at least once: “Windows is not activated.” In most cases, the problem isn’t Windows itself or a “bad key”.It’s the license type. This comes up frequently for developers a...
Join discussionJan 19 · 5 min read · When you're launching a new .NET app, license protection might feel like something you can "add later." But here's what I've learned from watching developers build commercial software: waiting costs you money and customers. Let me show you why licens...
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Jan 19 · 4 min read · If you're building commercial .NET software, you've probably heard about both code obfuscation and license protection. But what's the actual difference? And which one do you need? Let me break it down in plain English. What's the Difference? Code Obf...
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