A guide on how to become an open source project maintainer by contributing to existing projects you use, without needing permission.
A developer recounts how they cracked a Sia cryptocurrency wallet seed posted on Reddit by exploiting a single character error.
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 freelance web developer shares their 2017 goals, focusing on community involvement, learning new tech, and improving work-life balance.
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.
A female developer shares her positive experiences in the tech industry, countering the narrative of pervasive sexism.
Explores the motivations and challenges of open source maintainers, and why they sometimes hand off projects.
Author announces the free release of their open-source book 'Intermediate Python', designed to guide learners after mastering the basics.
An open source maintainer shares his strategy for encouraging first-time contributors by creating easy, guided opportunities to submit code.
A programmer shares their personal method for learning new programming languages and offers motivation based on their own journey into coding.
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.
Reflections on the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web and predictions for its future, emphasizing the importance of open standards.
Discusses the need to verify browser security due to government surveillance risks and how Firefox's open-source nature enables this.
A review of the book 'Dreaming in Code', which chronicles the failures of the Chandler open-source software project as a cautionary tale.
