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…
May 21, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Roadmap: Open Source
After years of investing in open source software, we’re releasing our thinking on what positions these companies as emerging technology giants.
Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open S…
An inside look at modern open source software developer…
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
Ubuntu Summit 2024 | Day Three
Ubuntu Summit 25.10 | Day Two
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,…
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
How open source projects need to adapt to the AI coding era | We Love Open Source • All Things Open
A new Carnegie Mellon study shows AI coding tools boost velocity by 281% — then leave codebases harder to work with. Here's what open source communities need to do before the sugar rush wears off.
Reimagining OSS Licensing and Commercialization with Fair Source - Adam Jacob, System Initiative
Composable, fast, and secure dev environments | Workshop | Ubuntu
Launch agent-ready, sandboxed development environments with a single command. Define them via simple YAML configs, share them to recreate on different machines.
Extensible Software in the age of LLMs | Jeremy Morrell
Solid core + capability-based sandboxes + LLMs = Users with superpowers
It's Time To Rethink Everything by @t3dotgg
Impressions from visiting OpenAI, Anthropic, & Cursor
A peek into where software engineering is headed from inside the sector’s leading AI labs. Agents running in the cloud are a major trend, while coding harnesses are spreading beyond the craft
Vibe Maintainer
Some attendees at an AI Tinkerers meetup in early Feb were asking me what it’s like to be the maintainer of a big OSS project where the…
Wild to see that @npmx.dev was the fastest-growing emerging open source organization by number of contributors in Q1 2026 according to osscar.dev. What is even more interesting: it was the only non-AI tool in the top 10.
