The deskilling of web dev is harming the product but, more importantly, it's damaging our health – this is why burnout happens

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.

The web is a creative industry and is facing the same decline and shattered economics as film, TV, or publishing

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New Web Development. Or, why Copilots and chatbots are particularly bad for modern web dev

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Software developers are not okay

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Interim note 5: web media and web dev employment

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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.

The story of this blog so far: 'AI', the death of web dev, and feeling like an outsider

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The web can be weaponised – and we can't count on big tech to stop it | Tim Berners-Lee

It’s dangerous having a handful of companies control how ideas and opinions are shared. A regulator may be needed

When Contributing to WordPress Full-Time Leads to Burnout

As a distributed worker, one of the toughest obstacles I face is burnout. It’s one of the reasons I took a month off from all things WordPress. According to Merriam-Webster, burnout is, &#822…

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!

136 facts every web dev should know before they burn out and turn to landscape painting or nude modelling

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Make It Work vs. Make It Good

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

Theory-building and why employee churn is lethal to software companies

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You Can Help Solve Burnout in Open Source

A list of people and projects working on structural solutions to problems that cause burnout in open source software

The Better Web / The Human Web / The Living Web

A response to Aaron Parecki's response: on the false dichotomy of rewriting with Claude or shutting down, why 'understanding matters more than tools' sever…