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Contribute to Open Source:A Comprehensive Guide for Everyone I often get this question "How can I contribute to Open Source." It's time I put my experience and suggestions in a blog.

I wrote this Open Source Contribution guide 2 years ago, thanks to @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social we updated it to include a section on how you can contribute as designer to Open Source.

Eriol I appreciate your time and sharing your journey

www.santoshyadav.dev/blog/contrib...

How to self-host Penpot: A technical implementation guide Once you've decided to bring Penpot into your own infrastructure, the next step is making sure your instance runs smoothly, stays secure, and scales with your team. Learn how to self-host Penpot in yo...

👉 penpot.app/blog/how-to-...

Thank you. I haven’t, but will check the rules and see if I can.

An adversary card is open in the centre with the zoom-in effect on the copy card button. The card collection is open on the left, with selectable panels for cards from different collections (Custom adversaries, SRD Adversaries Tier 1-4).

It’s Daggercard update time.

📇 All your cards are now saved (locally, in the browser) and easy to return to.
📚 You can use the official adversaries from the Daggerheart’s SRD.
✍️ You can copy an existing card and customise it further.

Go make some adversaries at daggercard.tellstorypress.com

Penpot Desktop v0.22 is out.

It’s a small release with:
📝 improved instance editing (more accessible UI structure, experience unified with local creator),
📇 standardised installer naming (also smaller, arch-specific Windows installers),
🏷️ improved Flathub meta info.

github.com/author-more/...

Thank you.
I have ideas to improve it, looking forward to adding new, cool features when time allows.
If you will have a chance to use it (and the cards), I would love to hear how it went.

A split view of a custom Daggerheart’s adversary statistics card and an editable form with the card’s properties.

I thought it would be nice to have physical adversary cards, with checkable resources, so I made a tool for creating adversary cards for Daggerheart TTRPG from @darringtonpress.bsky.social.

If you would like to create a custom adversary card, or ten, it’s available at daggercard.tellstorypress.com

Penpot Desktop now lets you open a file’s view mode in a new window and can auto-reload the view when the @penpot.app file changes.

They are available as independent options and off by default, so make sure to check out the settings after the update to 0.21.0.

Release: github.com/author-more/...

Release v0.20.0 (2025-10-24) · author-more/penpot-desktop Features [macOS] Added signing and notarisation of the macOS builds. #230 🚦 macOS builds will now be recognised by Gatekeeper and work without quarantine bypass. On the first run, they will have t...

Penpot Desktop’s macOS builds are now signed and notarised.

From v0.20.0, builds:
🔒 are recognised by Gatekeeper,
❌ don’t need quarantine bypass,
✅ and have auto-update.

github.com/author-more/...

Local instance updating is live.

In the local instance creator, you can now 📝 edit a local instance's settings and ⬆ upgrade it to the newest @penpot.app version.

You can find details and get the version 0.19.0 from the release page: github.com/author-more/...

Penpot 2.10: Go your own way 🛤️ In this release we introduce what’s (probably) the top community request: Variants are a powerful way to bring order and flexibility to your design system in Penpot. On top of that, Design Tokens now...

New release! Penpot 2.10 is here 🎉
✨ Variants are now available!

And also, Design Tokens get more typography options plus plenty of quality-of-life improvements

Check what's new : community.penpot.app/t/penpot-2-1...

I have an idea for a content management system plugin for @penpot.app.

Below is a video with a PoC:
- 🧱 batch item creation from a data set,
- ↔️ two-way editing,
- 🏷️ layer name based content pairing - the project works without the plugin.

Community discussion: community.penpot.app/t/penpot-cms...

I just ran the first test update of a local @penpot.app instance using Penpot Desktop.

Everything went well, with one click to trigger @docker.com to pull new images and (re)create the containers. 🎉

How do you use view mode in @penpot.app?

Here is a proof of concept of an auto-reload for the view window. Once the file changes are saved, Penpot Desktop would refresh the view for you.

The local instance creator form with the tag input focused and the list of value suggestions shown, e.g. latest, 2.8.1, 2.8.2, 2.8.0, 2.7.2.

You can now specify the @penpot.app version of the local instance to create.

It defaults to the “latest”, but any valid Penpot Docker repository tag should work, with suggestions for ten of the most recent tags.

Tabs pinning, improved accessibility, and a stable Penpot embedding solution. I started work on the Penpot Desktop’s in-house tabs setup.

Our new (free!) UI Design with Penpot course Hello friends! I’m excited to share our new (free!) UI Design with Penpot course. Together with the wonderful Penpot team, I’ve been working on this for a while! We’re bringing together: Practic...

We're celebrating!

We've just launched our brand new (and free!) Penpot Course, and we're kicking things off with the UI Design with Penpot Free Course!

Check out the course and get all the details here:

community.penpot.app/t/our-new-fr...

You can now download all your @penpot.app projects at once, with Penpot Desktop.

Open the dashboard, click “Download all projects”, specify the path and the archive name, and wait for the download to complete.

Get version 0.16 at github.com/author-more/...

Penpot Desktop application displaying the Penpot web application’s dashboard. In the top right corner, next to the “New project” button, there is a “Download all projects” button.

A new feature for the Penpot Desktop is in the works. Can you spot the change in the @penpot.app UI?

Penpot Desktop application with the native title bar. The settings panel is open, showing the title bar type selector set to "native".

You can now enable the native title bar for your Penpot Desktop window.

It is a new option in the settings panel, set to “overlay” by default, and a change takes effect after a restart.

Available in version 0.15 on its release page github.com/author-more/... and in the Flathub store.

Design tokens starter kit. Version 1, April 2025. Including tokens for colors, spacing, density, dimensions, opacity, radius, rotation, and stroke widths.

I created a design tokens starter kit for @penpot.app and it’s now downloadable from the Penpot Hub.

If you try it, please let me know any feedback or feature requests. I’ll keep updating it for future Penpot releases.

penpot.app/penpothub/li...

#designTokens #penpot #openSource #foss

The Penpot Desktop package is currently unsigned, which causes Gatekeeper to raise an error.
This issue goes into more detail and may be helpful: github.com/author-more/...

Thank you. That's helpful information.
Indeed, it’s an issue with spaces in the path. I will look into it.

Penpot Desktop can now set up a local @penpot.app instance for you.

Launch creator, name your instance, click “Create”.

⚠️ It’s an experimental feature.
🪟 Windows is supported, but untested.
🛡️ Requires a non-sandbox environment.

Download: github.com/author-more/...
Docs: github.com/author-more/...

Next in Penpot Desktop: one more step towards a seamless offline experience. With a click of a magic wand, you will be able to set up a local @penpot.app instance.

It requires @docker.com and will launch as an experimental feature.

Thank you. I promise to reveal it really soon.

Two buttons under the Penpot instance list setting: 'Add instance' and a magic wand icon.

A new, mysterious button showed up in the settings during the Penpot Desktop development. What could it be doing with @penpot.app?

Top: VS Code settings panel showing the Git Blame Editor Decoration setting. Bottom: A file in VS Code with inline Git blame information next to a line of code.

Recently, I learnt that in VS Code, you can have inline Git blame info without needing any extensions.

1. Go to Settings.
2. Search for "Git blame".
3. Tick the box for "Git › Blame › Editor Decoration”.

Or you can set "git.blame.editorDecoration.enabled" to `true` in the Settings JSON.

Enjoy.

I went on a small bug fixing spree for Penpot Desktop this week. It means:
- visual indicators for colourless tabs' states,
- a persistent "new tab" button,
- and more tab space in macOS's full-screen mode.

Just one more issue with instances to sort out and the v0.12.1 update will be out to you.