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'Netflix for Open Source' Wants Developers to Get Paid
Startup Tidelift hopes payments will let coders keep projects patched and up to date.

Devs raise $130,000 in just five days to support laid-off peers
The game industry hardship fund bundle, meant to support game workers during ongoing mass layoffs, is over halfway through its goal of 200,000 USD.
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Why Libraries.io and Dependency CI are joining Tidelift
Today we have some pretty big news. Ben and I are joining Tidelift, a new company focused on making open source software work better for…

Lunar Logic Blog | Open Salaries: Outcomes (Looking back after 20 months)
What happens when you give employees control of their own salaries? A lot of great things, actually.
GitLab Master Plan
GitLab announces $20M in Series B funding, and its Master Plan to build an integrated toolset for the modern developer!

Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65tn on opaque AI funding
Data center leases, GPU supply contracts raise liabilities at Meta, Oracle, Nikkei study shows

Bailey Townsend | Software Developer
Bandaid Engineer and open source software developer.


Developer AI Token Costs Could Exceed Their Salaries in Two Years - Slashdot
"Enterprises may soon be paying as much for their developers' AI token usage as they do for their salaries," writes InfoWorld: According to Gartner, these costs will meet, or even exceed, the typical software engineer's monthly salary within the next two years. This is not only because developers ...

Silicon Valley’s Exclusive Salary Database
Unlike popular self-reported salary sites like Glassdoor or Stack Overflow, Option Impact is reserved for elite users—VCs and the executives at the startups they back.

OpenStarbound/OpenStarbound
Contribute to OpenStarbound/OpenStarbound development by creating an account on GitHub.
Intro to NSF Tech Labs: Session I
Introducing Sponsorware: How A Small Open Source Package Increased My Salary By $11k in Two Days
<p>After digging deep on SQLite during a pair programming session with a client/friend, I had an idea…</p> <p>About 45 minutes later, a proo...

Intro to NSF Tech Labs: Session II
Changing Devtools Is Cheap. Owning Them Isn’t.
AI makes devtools cheap to customize, but personalized forks still demand ongoing attention and ownership.

NEWS 📣 The Sovereign Tech Agency is launching the Sovereign Tech Standards network today, a new program designed to bring open source maintainers directly into global standards development. sovereign.tech/news/join-sovereign-tech-stan…