







12 Days of Truly Open Innovation
a practical guide to decentralization (for my friends) - tim's tinkerings
Against Technofeudal Education
Pillars For Protecting Our "Core Infrastructure" From OpenAI

Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open S…
An inside look at modern open source software developer…

Open Source Explained — Open Indie
Musings on the concept of ‘open source’, in the broadest possible definition of the term. Also an invitation to become a participant in ...

Open Source Resistance
A direct-action manifesto for maintainers keeping open source alive on company time.

Reframing “Open Source AI” with Meredith Whittaker: AI Impact Summit 2026
Built to benefit everyone
OpenAI’s recapitalization strengthens mission-focused governance, expanding resources to ensure AI benefits everyone while advancing innovation responsibly.

Sustainable Open Source: The Maintainers Perspective or: How I Learned to Stop Caring and Love Open Source
Introducing Sponsorware: How A Small Open Source Package Increased My Salary By $11k in Two Days
<p>After digging deep on SQLite during a pair programming session with a client/friend, I had an idea…</p> <p>About 45 minutes later, a proo...

Transmutations
We know from experience and empirical analysis that open source and open standards projects drift into oligarchies that struggle to reform themselves and become ossified. Often, we can simply let them die and replace them with fresher alternatives, but when that's a costly option we can learn from theoretical models of institutional change to understand how to compost the oligarchy and regrow the project from within.

Comprehension Debt: The Ticking Time Bomb of LLM-Generated Code
Psst. If your boss won’t invest in training you in Specification By Example (BDD, ATDD), I’m running out-of-hours workshops on May 12 and 16 specifically for self-funding learners. £99 + UK VAT. An…
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,…

Dawn of a new era in Search: Balancing innovation, competition, and public good | Kagi Blog
Google search is in the news.
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…