# On Software Dependency Engineering _Note: I have worked at Google for the majority of my professi
Bobby Grayson - Deciduous
R. S. Doiel, Software Engineer/Analyst — Robert's ramblings
By R. S. Doiel, 2026-02-21 (revised: 2026-03-03, epilogue added 2026-03-27)
Dependency Cultures - Richard Feldman | SSW 2026
Package Managers Need to Cool Down
A survey of dependency cooldown support across package managers and update tools.
Pluralistic: The (other) problem with automatic conversion of free software to proprietary software (23 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Here's an interesting stunt: a project called Malus.sh will take your money, and in exchange, it will ingest any free/open source code you want, refactor that code using an LLM, and spit out a "clean room" version that is freed from all the obligations imposed by the original project's software license:
AI-SLOP: Develop best current practises for Open Source maintainers · Issue #178 · ossf/wg-vulnerability-disclosures
Open source projects are increasingly facing a wave of low-quality, AI-generated vulnerability reports and contributions—commonly referred to as "AI-slop." This issue aims to develop best...
Diving into Claude Code's Source Code Leak
Engineer’s Codex is a publication about real-world software engineering.
research!rsc: Our Software Dependency Problem
For decades, discussion of software reuse was far more common than actual software reuse. Today, the situation is reversed: developers reuse software written by others every day, in the form of software dependencies, and the situation goes mostly unexamined.
prime-radiant-inc/engineering-notebook
CLI tool that ingests Claude Code sessions, generates LLM summaries, and serves a browsable engineering journal
The Asymmetry of Open Source - Matt Holt
A comprehensive guide to funding open source software projects
Drips | Fund Open Source In Your Ecosystem
Drips is the easiest way to fund Open Source in your ecosystem. Fund your dependencies with built-in dependency splitting, run RetroPGF rounds, and achieve any
GitHub - DefenderOfBasic/open-memetics-institute: Studying memetics 100% in the open & building the open source tools we need
Studying memetics 100% in the open & building the open source tools we need - DefenderOfBasic/open-memetics-institute
Cody - Sourcegraph docs
Documentation for Sourcegraph, the code intelligence platform.