# Transparent Software

DevFeed: [Transparent Software](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/transparent-software-35476.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://darkcoding.net/software/transparent-software/>)

Author: Graham King

Published: 2025-03-29T15:54:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Graham King](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/graham-king.md>)

Topics: [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>), [Hugo](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hugo.md>), [passwords](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/passwords.md>), [Neovim](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/neovim.md>), [HTTP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/http.md>)

Tags: [design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/design.md>), [http](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/http.md>), [hugo](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hugo.md>), [markdown](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/markdown.md>), [password](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/password.md>), [passwords](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/passwords.md>), [plugin](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/plugin.md>), [python](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/python.md>), [rust](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rust.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [trust](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/trust.md>)

## AI overview

The article defines transparent software as software whose behavior and structure users can understand and replace. It contrasts Hugo with WordPress, and describes the author's password manager, kip, as a modular tool built around user-controlled encrypted files and configurable command-line utilities.

## Source excerpt

A software system is transparent when you can look at it and immediately understand what it is doing and how.