Congrats, you made it through 2016! Read the Docs has been rolling along, and we’ve had another interesting year as well. For a quick summary: Our level of contributions and commits has gone down a good bit this year., Our traffic and user growth has been quite steady, which is particularly impre...
I’m joining GitHub
2016 has been a wild ride. I had no idea when I published my first post in January that so many people were this jazzed about building and…
Five Years of Being A Full-Time Indie
Wow, it’s been a while. Figured passing another milestone is worth at least some sort of update. Looking back at my 1 year milestone has been amusing. My initial thought was that almost all the points brought up 4 years ago would no longer apply. A lot of the insights back then are strangely still quite applicable. So what’s happened in the 4 years since? On a more personal level, I’ve improved my eating and exercising habits to stay healthier.
A Year in Review: Phaser in 2018 and beyond
Welcome to the annual Phaser round-up, covering all the stats and milestones achieved during 2018. If you'd like some context, you can read the 2016 and 2017 entries first. I'll be comparing stats with those from 2017 to see how things have changed.
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026
More than 30K technologists from 169 countries have shared their thoughts with us, and now it’s time to share everything we’ve learned with you. So let’s dive into this year’s Annual Developer Survey.
WP Growth Council
In the WordPress world, when we look back an 2016 I think we’ll remember it as the year that we awoke to the importance of marketing. WordPress has always grown organically through word of mouth an…
State of the Art JavaScript in 2016
State of the Art JavaScript in 2016 So, you’re starting a brand new JavaScript front end project or overhauling an old one, and maybe you haven’t kept up with the breakneck pace of the ecosystem …
Changes to our Contribution Policies – Godot Engine
Godot is growing fast, so here is how we are dealing with the huge increase in contributions.
Aspiration | Better Tools for a Better World
It's our 23rd Anniversary! Nonprofit staff, developers, capacity builders, and grassroots activists will convene at the 2026 Nonprofit Software Development Summit, 18-20 November, 2026, to share knowledge, build capacity, and collectively envision the future of free, open and equitable digital tools and practices to support social change efforts.
Let’s Encrypt 2016 In Review
Our first full year as a live CA was an exciting one. I’m incredibly proud of what our team and community accomplished during 2016. I’d like to share some thoughts about how we’ve changed, what we’ve accomplished, and what we’ve learned. At the start of 2016, Let’s Encrypt certificates had been available to the public for less than a month and we were supporting approximately 240,000 active (unexpired) certificates. That seemed like a lot at the time! Now we’re frequently issuing that many new certificates in a single day while supporting more than 20,000,000 active certificates in total. We’ve issued more than a million certificates in a single day a few times recently. We’re currently serving an average of 6,700 OCSP responses per second. We’ve done a lot of optimization work, we’ve had to add some hardware, and there have been some long nights for our staff, but we’ve been able to keep up and we’re ready for another year of strong growth.
2016 will be the year of conversational commerce
Nearly a year ago today, I wrote a post inventorying the forebears to what I believe has become the dominant trend of consumer computing apps in 2016, a trend that I dubbed Conversational Commerce …
Who sponsors Drupal development? (2015-2016 edition)
An in-depth analysis of how Drupal's development was sponsored between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016.
Growing a contributor base in modern open source
In the Node.js project, new contributors account for ~50% of all contributors per month.
"The end result of all of this is that we grew from 2k users to almost 150k, added a ton of heavy new functionality, and still managed to optimize and cut down costs from $.15 per active user per month to just $.03 or so." - @snarfed.org breaks down all the work he's done to optimize Bridgy Fed 1/
Bridging on a budget
blog.anew.social#WSocial state of the network - September 15, 2026 There is a lot of misinformation regarding W Social and how active the network is. So, from time to time, I'd love to share some numbers. This is the beauty of #OpenData 💫 sources: pdsls.dev, clearsky.app, atproto.at #WSocialPics #WSocialFacts
