Tag: open source
Elio Struyf - Front Matter CMS, Demo Time
Elio Struyf showcases Front Matter CMS for VS Code and Demo Time, his tool for creating flawless presentation demos and talks.
Update On File Browser
Last year, I wrote a bit on maintaining open source projects. At the time, I was struggling with one of my most (unexpectedly) successful side projects, File Browser. Today, I want to give an update on it, since I never wrote again about it. I'm hoping that this post helps explaining the current status of the project.
The virtuous circle
The virtuous circle is the most powerful pattern in developer tooling. And it's the myth of the 10x developer that makes it hard to see.
Joel Griffith - Browserless
Joel Griffith explains how Browserless runs headless browser automation at scale and introduces BrowserQL for querying the web with SQL-like syntax.
Surviving FOSDEM '26
Last weekend was the first weekend of February, which means only one thing in the open source world: the largest open source conference on Earth took place. All of that to say that I spent my past weekend in Brussels to attend FOSDEM. Definitely chaotic as usual!
Fabian Hiller - Valibot, Standard Schema, Formisch
Fabian Hiller explores Valibot's creation, the Standard Schema collaboration between validation libraries, and his new Formish form library.
Peter van Hardenberg - Ink and Switch, Automerge
Peter van Hardenberg from Ink and Switch discusses the origins of local-first software and Automerge, their CRDT-based sync engine for real-time collaboration.
Contributing to Open Source without being a Jerk
Open source doesn't work without good faith - and sometimes you need to patch a dependency to do your part.
Nathan Flurry - Rivet - The Future of Serverless is Stateful
Nathan Flurry reveals how Rivet evolved from multiplayer gaming platform to general-purpose stateful serverless computing with actor frameworks as first-class primitives.
Oleg Isonen, Bogdan Chadkin - Webstudio
Oleg Isonen and Bogdan Chadkin discuss Webstudio, their open source visual builder revolutionizing web design with AI integration and developer-designer collaboration.
Francois Best - Nuqs and URL State Management
Francois Best explains how Nuqs solves React URL state management challenges with elegant serialization and router adapter solutions.
Connecting A Fresh Node
The exciting new 2D open-source image editor PixiEditor is still a bit rough around the edges, but it innovates by bringing thinking from the game development world to the traditional paint tool paradigm. It feels like the start of a trend.
Bereket Engida - Better-Auth
Bereket Engida walks through building better-auth, the extensible authentication library taking the JavaScript community by storm.
How I'm funded
Being a full-time open source maintainer is a rare privilege. In the interests of transparency, let me explain a little more about how I am funded.
Maintaining Open Source Projects
Last month was Maintainer Month, a month were open source software maintainers are celebrated. A lot of the software in the world - and thus society itself - runs on open source software, which is something not known to a lot of people. During this past month, I read a few posts here and there about people sharing their journey and experience as an open source maintainer, and today I wanted to give my take on it.
Peter Pistorius - Redwood SDK
Peter Pistorius discusses Redwood's evolution into a serverless React Server Components framework and his vision for personal software development.
Greg Sadetsky, Antoine Leclair - Disco
Greg Sadetsky and Antoine Leclair present Disco, their tool that makes running your own infrastructure as simple as a piece of cake.
James Garbutt - E18e
James Garbutt explains e18e, the community initiative focused on improving JavaScript package performance across the entire npm ecosystem.
Charles Lowell - Frontside, Effection, and Structured Concurrency
Charles Lowell introduces Effection and structured concurrency concepts, exploring how they can solve JavaScript's promise-handling challenges.
Diversity, equity and inclusion
I'm in favour of diversity, equity and inclusion in open source communities, and here's why I think it matters.
Zero sum games
Open source is about mutual giving. So how does that square with commercial open source? Or building a for-profit product on top of an open source project?
Darcy Clarke - npm, vlt and the Future of JavaScript Package Management
Darcy Clarke introduces VLT, a new JavaScript package manager aiming to disrupt npm with innovative features and VSR registry.
Anselm Eickhoff - Jazz Tools
Anselm Eickhoff presents Jazz Tools, reimagining client-server boundaries for local-first apps with collaborative data structures.
Ivan Buzarin - Daytona
Ivan Buzarin discusses two decades of cloud development evolution, from CodeAnywhere to Daytona's self-hosted dev environment management.
Erez Zukerman - ZSA, ErgoDox, and the Future of Keyboards
Erez Zukerman shares the journey of building ZSA's open source ErgoDox keyboards and the challenges of crowdfunded hardware manufacturing.
Content Fighting Systems
The co-founder of WordPress steps in it, repeatedly, in a forest-for-the-trees fight with WP Engine that makes me feel sad for the open internet.
Jordan Harband - Npm Ecosystem, HeroDevs
Jordan Harband defends his controversial stance on legacy support while managing countless npm packages that power millions of JavaScript projects.
Brandon Roberts - Angular, Front-End Frameworks, and OpenSauced
Brandon Roberts explores Open Sauced's approach to open source analytics and demos Analog, his full-stack framework bringing Next.js patterns to Angular.
Using AI in open source
If you want to use AI to help you contribute to one of the projects I maintain, I would be delighted. But I have rules.
Keys To The Future
Thoughts on a new phone keyboard from an organization that is making a convincing case we need to rethink our discussion around FOSS and self-hosting.
Ryan Dahl - Node, Deno, and JSR The Modern JavaScript Registry
Ryan Dahl, creator of Node.js, explores his journey to building Deno and the new JavaScript registry JSR for runtime-agnostic development.
Little oak
I wrote a little parable about open source, about credit, and about giving things away.
It’s Easy. But Is It Easy Enough?
Self-hosted apps are having a moment, but people are still a little freaked out by them. Could a Flatpak-style approach to self-hosting help matters?
Mitchell Hashimoto - Founder of HashiCorp, Author of Terraform, and Thoughts of Open Source Monetization
Mitchell Hashimoto reflects on founding HashiCorp, creating Terraform, open source monetization challenges, and his passion for aviation.
Guillermo Rauch - Vercel, The Front End Cloud
Guillermo Rauch explores Vercel's mission to democratize web development, React Server Components, and how AI will transform generative UI.
When Stewards Go Astray
A pair of recent controversies around the tech-publishing giant Automattic raise an important question in my mind: Do we have to worry about the future of WordPress?
Glauber Costa - Forking SQLite and Building a Distributed Database with Turso
Glauber Costa explains how Turso forks SQLite into libSQL to create a distributed database, drawing from his Linux kernel development experience.