A guide on building a user community for an open source project, covering how to handle user queries and set up GitHub issue templates.
Explains why the Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) is a better, more transparent alternative to Contributor License Agreements (CLAs) for open-source projects.
A developer recounts building a complex, multi-bot IRC system with features like parcel tracking, music requests, and a JavaScript execution bot.
A developer reflects on public drama with Tailwind CSS, apologizes, and shares lessons learned about communication in open source.
A guide exploring the benefits, challenges, and practical steps for open sourcing commercial video games for preservation and legacy.
A developer criticizes Tailwind CSS for allegedly using Windi CSS's JIT ideas without proper credit, sparking a discussion on open-source ethics.
An exploration of JUnit Pioneer, a project collecting extensions for JUnit 5, covering technical details and community building.
Introduces the Azure Mask browser extension, an open-source tool for automatically masking sensitive data in the Azure Portal for safer screen sharing and content creation.
A guide to setting up listmonk, an open-source newsletter manager, as a free alternative to expensive services like Mailchimp.
Discusses building a sustainable business model first when creating free and open source software (FOSS) to ensure financial success.
A guide to building high-quality .NET libraries, covering project structure, tooling, and best practices for open-source development.
Blazored, a suite of open-source Blazor components, celebrates reaching 1 million downloads on NuGet, thanking its community of contributors.
The author discusses their experience appearing on the Blazor Community Standup to talk about the Blazored component libraries and provides an update on their book.
Explores the 'build vs buy' decision for UI component libraries, weighing custom development against using existing solutions.
A solo developer's third-year retrospective on building a software business, focusing on the success of his open-source KVM device, TinyPilot.
A developer's introductory blog post about sharing knowledge on open source, documentation, and community building.
Analyzes the /r/wallstreetbets deplatforming to argue for open, federated platforms over proprietary ones like Discord, citing user control and aligned incentives.
Explains the core FOSS principle that you cannot monopolize commercial exploitation of open-source software, and how businesses must adapt.
A critique of Elastic's decision to change Elasticsearch's license, arguing it betrays open source principles and its contributor community.
Explores the State design pattern using the real-world example of ngrev, an open-source tool for reverse engineering Angular applications.
