Postel's Law and the Three Ring Circus
Analyzes the negative long-term effects of Postel's Law on software ecosystems, arguing it creates a 'ratchet' of increasing specification deviance.
Analyzes the negative long-term effects of Postel's Law on software ecosystems, arguing it creates a 'ratchet' of increasing specification deviance.
An overview of C# and .NET Core in 2025, covering its open-source status, strengths, weaknesses, and comparisons to other languages like Java and Go.
Author explains why they host code in bare Git repos instead of platforms like GitHub, and details their preferred methods for receiving patches.
A developer shares the unexpected story of submitting a last-minute talk proposal to a Python conference across the country and having it accepted.
A developer shares their journey of making a major open source contribution to the BeeWare project, detailing the process and community experience.
A web developer outlines his 2025 goals for open source projects, tooling, and financial growth in the tech industry.
Ghostty terminal project announces eight new subsystem maintainers to support its growth and long-term open source health.
A personal review of 2024 focusing on open source project goals, financial earnings, and productivity reflections from a full-time developer.
Introducing the Kubernetes History Inspector, an open-source tool for visualizing cluster events and logs in a detailed timeline.
A guide to installing and running the open-source LanguageTool grammar checker locally on macOS for privacy-conscious users.
An open source maintainer's detailed breakdown of their 2024 income, showing a shift towards community sponsorships and project-based earnings.
A developer shares personal experience and reasons for contributing to open-source projects like GitLab, highlighting non-coding contributions and benefits.
Introduces Daintree.app, an open-source alternative to the AWS console with multi-region views, fast role switching, and a coherent interface.
A call to discuss transparency and governance issues at FOSDEM '25 following the cancellation of a controversial sponsored keynote talk.
A protest is planned at FOSDEM '25 to disrupt Jack Dorsey's talk, citing objections to his company's sponsorship and advocating for more transparent event processes.
A critique of Jack Dorsey's keynote at FOSDEM, arguing billionaires and their harmful ventures are unwelcome in the free software community.
Developer shares their new role as a Developer Advocate at Pomerium, a Zero Trust access control platform, and discusses the company's open-source approach.
An analysis of three common reasons why funding models for open source software projects often fail, based on the author's long-term experience.
Explores the meaning of zero-major versioning in software, challenges assumptions about production readiness, and discusses Semantic Versioning (SemVer) as a communication contract.
A software engineer shares their experience starting a new role as a Senior Product Engineer at PostHog, an open-source analytics platform.