Can you believe Software Freedom Day is only two months away? Last year, we counted down to SFD by sharing interesting links to FOSS. This year, let's add something new. Let's share links to blog posts and articles on FOSS design and ideas that shape our ecosystems. If you've written something you'd like included, please feel free to post about it. Here are some links I've run across recently. The first two are from the permacomputing mailing list and the third is from someone on Mastodon. This blog post discusses fighting the effects of AI, distilling useful knowledge, tools and processes. It includes links to FOSS projects including a vim-like editor. https:// civboot.github.io/blog/2026-07-21-fighting-ai.html This blog post discusses design of Freewheeling Apps and includes links to some FOSS projects in lua: https://akkartik.name/freewheeling/ An article on Open payment systems: https://netizenry1337.substack.com/p/liberating-our-payment-systems I'll be posting more on Mastodon, Bluesky and X in the coming weeks. If you find any of these articles interesting, I can post them here as well. Maybe they'll give you some ideas for topics for talks at your own SFD event.