AI promises frictionless creation, but real software is maintenance—greasy hands, patience, and stripped screws. As panic over synthetic slop rises, how do we protect the open commons without locking the door against the next generation of self-taught builders?
Zen and the Art of Open Source Maintenance | Fabricated Technobloggle | Daryl Ducharme | Offprint
AI promises frictionless creation, but real software is maintenance—greasy hands, patience, and stripped screws. As panic over synthetic slop rises, how do we protect the open commons without locking the door against the next generation of self-taught builders?
The Missing Middle of Open Source
Why serious, maintainer-driven projects struggle to sustain themselves—and what it will take to fix it.
The struggles of an open source maintainer - <antirez>
Sustaining Open Source Software
The ‘open source sustainability’ debate continues with yet-another-company relicensing their product away from an open source license to…
“Policy Without Tools Is Just Poetry” - AT Protocol
Juliet Shen from ROOST joins the show to talk through the Coop 1.0 release, what open-source trust and safety unlocks for new builders, and where AI actually belongs in moderation
Open Source Resistance
A direct-action manifesto for maintainers keeping open source alive on company time.
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,…
Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open S…
An inside look at modern open source software developer…
Professional maintainers: a wake-up call
Open Source software runs the Internet, and by extension the economy. This is an undisputed fact about reality in 2021. And yet, the role of Open Source maintainer has failed to mature from a hobby into a proper profession.
Open source sustainability | TechCrunch
Open source sustainability has been nothing short of an oxymoron. Engineers around the world pour their sweat and frankly, their hearts into these passion
Sustainable Open Source: The Maintainers Perspective or: How I Learned to Stop Caring and Love Open Source
How open-source software took over the world | TechCrunch
It was just five years ago that there was an ample dose of skepticism from investors about the viability of open source as a business model. Fast-forward to today and we’ve witnessed the growing excitement in the space.
A plan for open source software maintainers
It seems to me that this is a case where problems are in fact solutions to other problems. To wit:
I hate the term “open source”
It doesn’t accurately reflect how people are building today anymore.
Open source sustainability
While only twenty years ago open-source software was simply a curiosity that attracted the attention of a few academics and was not seriously considered in the software industry, open-source infrastructure today is ubiquitous, powering applications in virtually every domain.