A maintainer shares principles for managing volunteer-driven Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects, focusing on volunteer well-being and empowering contributors.
Analysis of the growing competition among major cloud providers (Google, Microsoft, AWS) to hire developer advocates and build developer relations teams.
An open source maintainer shares their journey of stepping down from a project by filing a 'Request For New Maintainer' issue.
A developer shares practical steps for learning and contributing to an open source codebase, from reading guidelines to debugging.
A developer reflects on the early challenges and design decisions during the incubation of Ceilometer, the OpenStack Telemetry project.
Fedora Scientific 28 Beta release announcement, noting some packages are now installable via dnf despite initial exclusions.
A developer's journey contributing to TypeScript by adding a summary error count feature to the --pretty CLI output.
A guide to setting up a modern JavaScript open source project, covering dependency management, coding style tools, and automation.
Argues for decentralized, open-source social platforms as the solution to privacy exploitation by centralized tech giants like Facebook and Google.
Microsoft's new Azure Postgres offering goes GA, bringing high availability, compliance, and competition to the managed PostgreSQL market.
An article encouraging programmers to dive into and contribute to open source projects, even when they seem intimidating or unfamiliar.
A developer shares their journey to earning sustainable income from recurring donations for their open source projects, enabling full-time FOSS work.
A developer's journey to fix TypeScript's error on trailing commas in generic type parameter lists, detailing the debugging process.
AT&T open-sources its dNOS network operating system, signaling a major shift towards disaggregated, open-source networking hardware and software.
Introduces `thanks`, an npm tool to help developers discover and donate to open source maintainers of their project dependencies.
A developer requests participation in a survey to identify the biggest physical and mental health issues faced by the software developer community.
A developer shares their 2018 resolutions focused on open-source contributions, blogging, learning, and using tools like VS Code and TypeScript.
Discusses why Contributor License Agreements (CLAs) can be detrimental to open source projects by discouraging contributions and complicating the process.
A personal review of the author's favorite podcast episodes from 2017, focusing on tech, design systems, and open source.
A personal story about the benefits and challenges of contributing to open source software for career growth in software development.
