Ditching GitHub

This is going to be some sort of a public service announcement, withside notes. This has been brewing for a long, long time (years), it’sjust that I never se...

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…

is the source code available? #25

the repo is presently empty! is this intentional?

Kindly Closing Pull Requests

Getting your first pull request from an outside contributor on GitHub is an exciting experience. Someone cared enough about the problem you were solving to check it out themselves, change…

Live blog: Code w/ Claude 2026

I’m at Anthropic’s Code w/ Claude event in 2026, and I’ll be live blogging the keynote and a few other notes throughout the day.

I Just Hit $100k/yr On GitHub Sponsors! 🎉❤️ (How I Did It)

<p><a href=https://sponsorsyrup.com target=__blank><img src=/post_images/3735079629.png></a></p> <p>I have a story to tell.</p> <p>My last y...

I Don’t Want to Know What “Open Source” Means

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all on GitHub.

Changing Tack

It's been almost two years since I made Orca open source, so I thought it would be a good time to reflect on what we've done so far, and introduce some changes in the project's direction.

Weird web pages — Open Indie

The Great Untangling: Part 3 – Materializing the web from first principles. Right now I use GitHub as my go-to profile page: github.com/...

Dear Matt Mullenweg: an open letter from Wix.com's CEO

Dear Matt,We were all very surprised by your post, as you have so many claims against us.Wow, dude I did not even know we were fighting.First, you say we have been taking from the open source community without giving back, well, of course, that isn’t true. Here is a list of 224 projects on our public GitHub page, and as you can see they are all dated before your post. We have not checked if WordPress is using them, but you are more than welcome to do so, some of them are pretty good.We always sh

A whole new GitHub Universe: announcing new tools, forums, and features

Today I welcomed more than 1,500 people to our second annual Universe conference in San Francisco, an event designed to celebrate the people building the future of software. It’s an…

Repo Birthday 🎂

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