Josh Goldberg 1/22/2022

Full Time Open Source

Read Original

The author, a software developer, announces their decision to leave their full-time job to focus entirely on open source maintenance. They discuss their motivations: personal enjoyment, career acceleration through collaboration, the global impact of improving developer tools, and addressing the broken funding models in open source software. The article is a personal reflection on transitioning to a career in open source.

Full Time Open Source

Comments

No comments yet

Be the first to share your thoughts!

Browser Extension

Get instant access to AllDevBlogs from your browser

Top of the Week

1
The Beautiful Web
Jens Oliver Meiert 2 votes
2
Container queries are rad AF!
Chris Ferdinandi 2 votes
3
Wagon’s algorithm in Python
John D. Cook 1 votes
5
Top picks — 2026 January
Paweł Grzybek 1 votes
6
In Praise of –dry-run
Henrik Warne 1 votes
8
Vibe coding your first iOS app
William Denniss 1 votes