IanTwenty

I don't see anyone talking about the human side so I'll ask - what is the appetite for change? I can see you yourself are motivated and that's great. How do you feel the attitude is with the others there? Migrating a company that's been working analogue for decades sounds like a big change programme regardless of the tech choices you ultimately make. This sounds like process change as well as technology change and that requires using another set of skills to wrangle the people.

I would advise to pick a small area first that's causing the most pain but also very amenable to common tech most people are already familiar with and is only a small change to existing processes. Get an early visible success.

The photo management might be a good start as we all are used to these apps on our phones and the tech is mature and easy to find in FOSS.

Everyone loves Immich though it has some big warnings on its github page about its own maturity. Maybe something simpler: just file/photo synching and a shared gallery? It can always be upgraded in future. Syncthing is solid, some kind of NAS and one of the older/mature galleries running on top. Get your backup process nailed down and run a real recovery process before too many photos are at stake.

Anyway it sounds exciting and kudos to you for looking to FOSS. Good luck!

There is some distribution of effort/expertise at least:

When an individual researcher or an organization discovers a new bug in some product, a CVE program partner — there are currently a few hundred across 40 countries — is asked to assess the vulnerability report and assign a unique CVE identifier for the flaw if and as necessary.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/16/homeland_security_funding_for_cve/

Not on Firefox, some site functionality is disabled: https://medium.com/@leonardodna/the-ultimate-newbie-guide-for-self-signed-certificates-d81aa3b9987b

I know what you mean but using real self-signed certificates (i.e. no CA at all) with modern browsers causes so many issues I find them unusable.

I'll mention this as no one has yet but you can be your own CA. Tools like mkcert make it easy

https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert

This is potentially more hassle (than using public DNS) as you have to get your CA certs onto every device. However it may be suitable depending on the situation.

Take a look at https://fedi.tips/ also

It's a bit like using directories/folders to organise your work - you don't have to have separate projects in separate folders but it really helps the more projects you have going on. Also once you have two Python projects that require different versions of the same dependency things will get messy.

Are you using a virtual env to isolate the environment of the game from the rest ofyour system? There are a few ways/tools to do it but maybe start here:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html

If you have the time try the troubleshoot mode to help figure it out - add ons are often the cause

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-crashes-closing-or-quitting

Maybe this method could one day be used with open street map

I once heard a recommendation that there's nothing better for neurodivergent people then to spend time with their own. Have a look and see if any places near you do sensory/neurodivergent events. I am thinking of things like cinema screenings and soft play. As awareness seems to be growing in some countries demand is emerging for e.g. low volume cinema screenings, lights turned down, low numbers of attendees etc. Whilst your child might not need all these accommodations there will be other children there who are neurodivergent for them to meet and (hopefully) a higher level of acceptance and understanding amongst all the parents.

If your child has special interests then events focussed on those subjects may attract similar types of children. It's a bit of a cliche/stereotype but communities like boardgames, pokemon, videogames, train enthusiasts etc often have events/rules/customs that provide clear ways to engage with others even non-verbally. For example there are people running Minecraft servers purely for neurodivergent children.

If you're really lucky there may even be parent meet ups or workshops in your area that bring neurodivergent kids together and help them to value their difference. Creating a social life independent of school for your child could be really valuable in their years ahead and for you too, helping them keep a core group of friends even when they transition between schools.

You can do the same with GitLab as another option, it supports custom domains too.