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link Czech Digital and Information Agency: activity reports What actually moved in the digitalization of the Czech state – read through the data rather than the press releases. report · digital-government 03/2026 link RÚIAN open data: addresses, buildings and territorial units The Czech register of territorial identification, addresses and real estate as open data – what it contains, how it is distributed and what to watch out for. open-data · ruian 01/2026 link How Complex Systems Fail The classic text by R. Cook – why failure never has a single cause. Required reading for anyone who runs systems. essay · systems 12/2025 link Cyber Resilience Act EU Regulation 2024/2847 on security requirements for products with digital elements – with a note on the original proposal, which all but forgot about open source. cra · opensource · eu · security · public-code 12/2024 link eIDAS 2.0: the EU digital identity regulation A 2024 amendment to the eIDAS regulation sets up the legal framework for a European digital identity wallet that member states must offer to citizens. eidas · digital-identity · eu 05/2024 link The Grug Brained Developer On humility towards complexity – why simplicity is an engineering discipline, not a lack of ambition. essay · engineering 06/2022 link openSUSE MicroOS: a system that does not update while running An immutable system with transactional updates on btrfs snapshots, where applications live in containers rather than in the root filesystem. opensuse · microos · btrfs 11/2021 link The European Commission open source software strategy A strategy adopted in October 2020 in which the European Commission committed to publishing its own software, contributing back and setting up an open source programme office. opensource · european-commission · public-code 10/2020 link Let's Encrypt: out of beta, free certificates for everyone A certificate authority that left beta in April 2016 and made automated, free, domain-validated TLS certificates available through the ACME protocol. tls · acme · certificates 04/2016 link RFC 7208: Sender Policy Framework The source text for SPF. It answers the questions blog posts disagree on – lookup limits, macros, and what each result actually means. spf · mail · standard 06/2014