







Report on Burnout in Open Source Software
I am currently working on a report on the causes of burnout in open source software, and am inviting the OSS community to share their thoughts!

Open Source Burnout Claims Another Project
Yet another OSS maintainer quits because of burnout. To fix this, we need better mental health resources for maintainers.

Burnout in Open Source: A Structural Problem We Can Fix Together | Open Source Pledge
Burnout is affecting the entire Open Source ecosystem. Here's what we could do to make things better.

Burnout in Open Source: A Structural Problem We Can Fix Together ✸ Software Stewardship Lab
Burnout is affecting the entire Open Source ecosystem. Here's what we could do to make things better.

MkLinux and the pimped-out Apple Workgroup Server 9150
As is typical here in the Floodgap lab, it all started so innocently: rebuilding a flaky Apple Workgroup Server 9150, the odd duck of the Wo...

Burnout Phase Transition - meri's missives
Modelling chronic stress effects on my mental health and the end of monopolies
2025-0915_OP-MiniWS-r4.pdf
Software Should Work
An independent conference on software reliability in Columbia, MO on July 16-17, 2026

Announcing Burn-LM (alpha): LLM Inference Engine
We're happy to announce the Burn-LM, an LLM inference engine based on Burn! The goal is to support any large model, LLM, VLM, and others, for inference but also for training (pre-training, post-training, and fine-tuning).

at://userandagents.org/network.cosmik.card/Kffy9lJlvKgl-KCjGSTHymU4
ATProtoCall and local-first software on atproto - Jake Lazaroff - atproto.nyc
In 24 hours, Aether OS Alpha goes live, and the era of atmospheric computing truly begins. See you then! smokesignal.events/did:plc:vcq34cz2s3iicekpjob5v…
Aether OS Alpha Launch
smokesignal.eventsthanks Maria! A little bird tells me the epilogue in my piece describes exactly what happened (someone at bsky allegedly read my article and increased their rate limit). I have a name, I need to see if they're willing to go on the record. So even the fix allegedly didn't come from W engineers LOOOL