A developer shares practical steps for learning and contributing to an open source codebase, from reading guidelines to debugging.
A developer requests participation in a survey to identify the biggest physical and mental health issues faced by the software developer community.
A personal review of the author's favorite podcast episodes from 2017, focusing on tech, design systems, and open source.
A guide on how to become an open source project maintainer by contributing to existing projects you use, without needing permission.
Explores the future of Laravel if its creator Taylor Otwell were to leave, detailing the existing succession plan and community safeguards.
A summary of key lessons from Adam Grant's book 'Give and Take', exploring giver and taker personalities and their impact on success.
A step-by-step guide on contributing to open-source GitHub projects by forking, syncing, branching, and creating pull requests.
The author announces the end of the JavaScript Air podcast, explaining the personal reasons behind the decision to stop producing new episodes.
A developer asks for community help on several open-source projects due to increased time constraints from other work.
A guide and free video series on how to contribute to open source projects, from creating a pull request to Git rebase.
Explores the motivations and challenges of open source maintainers, and why they sometimes hand off projects.
An open source maintainer shares his strategy for encouraging first-time contributors by creating easy, guided opportunities to submit code.
Analysis of SourceForge injecting adware and Slashdot's censorship of the story, eroding user trust in both platforms.
A developer logs a week's worth of software bugs they encountered, from Ubuntu to GitHub, and discusses the need for better testing practices.
Analysis of build failure rates in open source projects vs. corporate work, using Travis CI data to compare reliability.
A review of the book 'Dreaming in Code', which chronicles the failures of the Chandler open-source software project as a cautionary tale.
An article discussing how slow response times and ignored pull requests create a hostile environment for new open source contributors.
