Vlad-Stefan Harbuz

There are a couple of pages on this in Roads and Bridges (Eghbal 2016, 53ff). I'd also love to read more on this.

Does anyone know of any recent studies around the effectiveness of different extrinsic (e.g. financial) vs intrinsic (e.g. community altruism) motivators for open source contributors?

Asking for me, a friend, and also the rest of the OSS community.

What matters is the people, their relationships, their evolving friendships, their communities. What matters is the health and sustainability of our ever-expanding network of trust. So we can work together advancing our shared commons to the benefit of all of us.

killing it

I'm sure your writing will help others! 😊

“[I was] too scared to actually open a PR. I convinced myself that every amazing developer would be able to read my code and see how terrible it was.”

If this resonates with you, I hope @paulie.codes's celebration-worthy story about how she became an Open Source contributor can be an inspiration 🎉

daniel: "I don't think we need 10x developers to build great things. I think we need 10x teams – groups of people who care about the same problem, who iterate together, and who make each other better" 🤍

T-minus two weeks until Taiwan: Rail Rush

More npmx goodness. The word kindness comes up repeatedly in that community. It's a core value. Once again, it's so life affirming to be celebrating kindness in a tech community.

Rather than the grind, or the hustle, or the 996, or the yngmi.

Building in a state of grace.

Thanks @danielroe.dev

npmx: A Lesson in Open Source's Collaboration Feedback Loops | Open Source Pledge npmx's success is reminding us why Open Source is such a special social phenomenon.

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.

Announcing npmx: a fast, modern browser for the npm registry Today we're releasing the alpha of npmx.dev – a fast, modern browser for the npm registry, built in the open by a growing community.

npmx is now in alpha: this is our story, as told by our team and friends

thank you for reading, friends! :) I hope Google can join the @opensourcepledge.com one day

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✨️

Peony Software, 86-90 Paul Street, EC2A 4NE, London, UK

@chadwhitacre.com IANAL but this seems plausibly compatible with the Open Source Definition…? 🤔

perfect ❤

thanks for the support! 😊

Open Source Endowment — World's First Endowment Fund for OSS The Open Source Endowment provides truly sustainable funding for critical open source software through a community-driven endowment model.

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/

A VC and some big-name programmers are trying to solve open source's funding problem, permanently | TechCrunch A group of well-known open source programmers and a VC have launched the Open Source Endowment. They hope this new method will provide funding for good.

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 🙏

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 always knew he was a cat…

I saw your stream, and the project really did look giant, good luck! ❤️

I'm excited to see Bluesky take more steps towards decentralisation, so we can reduce our dependency on centralised (usually corporate) power.

I just migrated the account I'm posting from to a small European community server (@npmx.dev) 🎉

It was easy thanks to @baileytownsend.dev & @patak.dev ❤️

Spitting Out the Agentic Kool-Aid Tasting the future of invasive AI agents roused me to pursue a different direction.

“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.”

A very long punchcard on a spool, attached to a wool weaving machine.

My OP shows a machine used to create punchcards to be used with wool weaving machines, from Luxembourg's Öewersauer Cloth Factory Museum.

www.naturpark-sure.lu/en/offer/mus...

Here is a better look at one of the punchcards.

An old machine used to create punchcards to be used with wool weaving machines. It has a peculiar 50-key keyboard, and a very long punchcard is emerging from it.

thinking of switching from vim to this

I just opened my first PR on @npmx.dev! I've been wanting to get started in OSS for a long time but I always felt too intimidated. Today I finally made the jump after seeing an issue that I thought I could tackle, and now, I honestly can't wait to contribute more, and in other projects too!

The people who think LLMs can do this work mistake the output for the process. They think that to write a paper is to produce a document: if the document is produced then the research must have been done.

Like - the public good. We have people actually talking about, and working toward, the public good. Super cringe. I am so fucking here for it.