A personal reflection on the history and legacy of Mozilla and the Firefox browser, from its innovative beginnings to its perceived decline.
A guide on managing difficult pull request discussions, focusing on setting ground rules, assigning roles, and maintaining productive collaboration.
An open-source developer calls out Adobe for taking credit for the RSiteCatalyst R package without proper attribution at their conferences.
The Hyper open-source project is inviting contributors to join its core team with write access after landing just one commit, aiming to build a sustainable community.
An invitation for students to join Google's Summer of Code, submit project proposals, and get paid to work with open source communities like KDE and openSUSE.
Argues that product design should focus on the core 80% of users, not power users or edge cases, to avoid feature creep and improve the out-of-box experience.
A developer asks for community help on several open-source projects due to increased time constraints from other work.
A developer's recap of FOSDEM 2016, focusing on a talk and panel about the Lua and GNU Guile programming languages.
A guide and free video series on how to contribute to open source projects, from creating a pull request to Git rebase.
Feross announces his candidacy for the Node.js Board of Directors, highlighting his contributions to the ecosystem and his vision for the community.
Analyzes community contributions to open-source ASP.NET projects (MVC, DNX, Entity Framework, Kestrel) one year after Microsoft's .NET open-sourcing.
A developer's professional review of 2015, detailing progress on open-source projects like ControlsFX, LibFX, and FindBugs based on yearly resolutions.
A developer expresses gratitude after being elected a Java Champion, thanking mentors, community members, and supporters.
A female developer shares her positive experiences in the tech industry, countering the narrative of pervasive sexism.
Explores the importance of reproducible science in computer science, focusing on reproducibility, replicability, and reusability of software and data.
Announcement of Open Live Writer, an open-source fork of Windows Live Writer for blog publishing.
Analyzes community involvement in open-source .NET projects (Roslyn, CoreCLR, CoreFX) one year after Microsoft's announcement, using GitHub data.
Explores how open source software acts like Yelp, shifting power from publishers to consumers by amplifying user feedback and demanding higher standards.
XAML Behaviors are now open source on GitHub and available for UWP apps, with updates to the Cimbalino Toolkit to support them.
The author announces that their personal blog's source code is now publicly available on GitHub, making it open source.
