If you want to attract and keep developers, don't emphasize ping-pong tables, lounges, fire pits and chocolate fountains. Give them private offices or let
Aaron Boodman on Twitter / X
There is this tension in dev tooling right now: Lots of people want to self-host, and not depend on a service. Lots of people also want the vibes of open source - being part of an open development community, having the code, etc.But builders still need to make a living...— Aaron Boodman (@aboodman) January 23, 2024
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Since moving back to San Francisco at the beginning of last year, I’ve been hosting regular founder dinners. Last night, I hosted a…
Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers
The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first community should help build it
It's Time To Rethink Everything by @t3dotgg
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Burnout is affecting the entire Open Source ecosystem. Here's what we could do to make things better.
Twelve tips for growing communities around your open source project | Ben Balter
Publishing code isn't enough. Twelve practical tips to attract users, welcome contributors, and grow a healthy open source community.
Software developers are not okay
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
The topic every game dev is talking about behind closed doors : The cost of doing business
Content warning : I’ve embedded some tweets to various developers that show the sorts of comments that they receive every day. There’s some…
What it feels like to be an open-source maintainer
Outside your door stands a line of a few hundred people. They are patiently waiting for you to answer their questions, complaints, pull requests, and feature requests. You want to help all of them,…
What it feels like to be an open-source maintainer
Outside your door stands a line of a few hundred people. They are patiently waiting for you to answer their questions, complaints, pull requests, and feature requests. You want to help all of them,…
How To Scale a Development Team
As hackers, we’re familiar with the need to scale web servers, databases, and other software systems. An equally important challenge in a growing business is scaling your development team.
Stack Overflow
Use Stack Overflow Insights and get information required to understand, reach, and attract developers.Improve tech hiring, recruiting, developer marketing, and and planning initiatives.
Open Source Resistance
A direct-action manifesto for maintainers keeping open source alive on company time.
big milestone at the day job where we open sourced Resident, our low-level core tech aimed at hardware device developers: code sandboxes for microcontrollers idea is that end users can infinitely reprogram the products in their home info + GitHub over here... news.inanimate.tech/p/lab-notes-drum-loops-protot…
