Congratulations to the @npmx.dev team on their launch day! 🎉❤️
Here's @vlad.website on how npmx's success shows us why Open Source collaboration itself is so special.
Job of the Week; Railway; Community Engineer
To keep the Open Source software the world relies on healthy, we need to build healthy Open Source communities. Want to help? You could build a thriving, empathetic OSS community as @railway.com's new Community Engineer!
opensourcepledge.com/jobs/
Congratulations to the @npmx.dev team on their launch day! 🎉❤️
Here's @vlad.website on how npmx's success shows us why Open Source collaboration itself is so special.
Congrats to npmx on their launch day! 🥳And for not only building an incredibly useful browser, but for all the thought they have put into to building a welcoming and healthy community! Inspiring 💖
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The @npmx.dev PDS is now our Bluesky home, too! Feels great to be part of an Open Source community server. Thanks, @baileytownsend.dev and @patak.cat!
OSS maintainers, if a company sent you a chunk of cash, what would you spend it on? @patak.cat spent it on infra helping him continue his Open Source adventures. Would you buy tools you need? Or use it to take care of your physical/mental health? Tell us, so we can make the best case to companies✨️
I'm one of the early "members" of the Open Source Endowment. Eager to see where this is going:
"Truly sustainable funding for critical OSS through a community‑driven endowment"
https://endowment.dev/
It's true. He did.
We just launched the Open Source Endowment, the first endowment dedicated to supporting Open Source maintainers, with $693,000 raised already.
The world depends on Open Source, but making our ecosystem sustainable is a complex task. I hope that, with community consultation, the Endowment can help 🙏
That paper last month about how vibe coding kills Open Source? Right conclusion but wrong title. Afaict vibe coding *fuels* Open Source ... but so does money, yeah. New blog post:
openpath.quest/2026/fueling...
as @mirandaheath.website said "it is time to recognize the humans behind open source". every maintainer burnouts eventually. everyone need to understand, fast, that the current state is unsustainable. but change will only come from between our lines. we'll need to change the game ourselves.
“I dove into Claude Code. I spent three 12+ hour days with it. I was intoxicated. My family was weirded out. Something felt off. (...) [I] ran as far away as I could to clear my head, through a deadly snowstorm to visit an old Amish friend.”
Proud to announce we are joining @opensourcepledge.com
at @coderabbitai.bsky.social we already committed more than $600,000 in year 2025, we will be paying this amount over the year since we started sponsorship.
www.coderabbit.ai/blog/we-are-...
Here's my FOSDEM 2026 talk about phantom binary dependencies 👻 — software packages we depend on without realising it, which leads to security and sustainability issues.
*Great* example.
I wanna say this out loud. A few months ago, I told Evan that @voidzero.dev should stop sponsoring me. I burned out, and I couldn't help Vite as before. But they decided to continue supporting me while I was down. And by doing so, they helped me get back on my feet sooner. Thank y'all ❤️
Now listening to @vlad.website talk about 👻 phantom dependencies in the context of funding initiatives like @opensourcepledge.com
#FOSDEM
Come to my FOSDEM talk on Saturday to hear a terrifying tale about _phantom dependencies_! 👻
Please welcome @railway.com as the newest member of @opensourcepledge.com 🎉
They rely on OSS projects like @vite.dev, @tanstack.com, @drizzle.team and @tailwindcss.com, and they're doing their part to sustain the ecosystem, from which we all benefit.
Read all about it:
You can also give back and help sustain the projects you use by creating thoughtful issues (read antfu.me/posts/why-reproductions-are-required by @antfu.me), and helping where you can.
Before talking with your employer, get a good pitch in order. @opensourcepledge.com is a great way to approach it.
Last week, we talked about some of our bigger contributions to foundations, but it's important to fund smaller projects as well.
Here are some other folks we want to highlight... 🧵
screen shot of tweet by Josh Cohenzadeh @jschnz Built a Claude Code skill to find the open source projects that your repo relies on and give you links to help fund them (Screenshot) Why Tribute? Your project depends on open source software maintained by volunteers and small teams. These maintainers often struggle to fund their work, yet their code powers your applications. The problem: Finding funding links for your dependencies is tedious. Package registries don't surface this information well, and manually checking each project's GitHub is time-consuming. Tribute solves this by automatically: Reading your dependency files Researching funding links from FUNDING.yml files and web searches Verifying every link actually works before showing it to you Install Copy the skill file to your Claude Code commands directory: curl -o ~/.claude/commands/tribute.md \ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jshchnz/tribute/main/tribute.md
.@emergetools.bsky.social co-founder, Josh built this cool tool called Tribute, a Claude Code skill to support your OSS dependencies. If you don't support the projects you rely on, you're running out of excuses!
Check it out: github.com/jshchnz/trib...
Yes, yes, this 💯
but why are you in the shower???? 🤷♂️🚿
All maintainers. All the time. No excuses, join the Pledge.
@opensourcepledge.com
We are overdue with our @opensourcepledge.com for 2025, but hearing the news from @tailwindcss.com made us turn around and get it done™
We're now processing $146,000 to open source projects that we use and like at Sanity HQ.
www.sanity.io/blog/open-so...
It's heartbreaking to see widely-used frameworks like Tailwind become even less financially sustainable due to LLMs.
I appreciated Tailwind's creator sharing his feelings of failure and frustration in an emotionally vulnerable way, and I made a short video to explain how I see the problem.
We've heard people like Starter Packs, so we just begun putting one together for open source organizations. It could be an OSPO like us, a Foundation that supports projects and the ecosystem or accounts for OSS events.
Take a look and tell us who else should be there.
go.bsky.app/Te7sTt9
