Tag: open-source
Forms of Open Source Government
Open source has more forms of government than countries do.
CHAOSS Metrics in 2026
CHAOSS metrics were calibrated for human-speed contribution
RFC: Artificial Contributors to Open Source
Intended status: Best Current Practice.
Dumb Ways for an Open Source Project to Die
How your dependencies became Bernies
Centrality is not vitality
Don't automatically reach for PageRank on dependency graphs
Showing Our Work
An independent benchmark of the ecosyste.ms Python fund
Not a Security Issue
How curl's disclosure policy filtered an AI scanner's findings at source
The Mismeasure of Open Source
The streetlight effect in project-health scoring
Weekend at Bernie's
Which of your dependencies are wearing sunglasses
OpenSource is still art
Software engineering has always been more craft than science. AI doesn't change that.
Revisiting the 2015 Open Source Census
The riskiest projects in open source, scored a decade early
Announcing the 2026 Open Source Fantasy Draft
Twelve teams, snake draft, standard scoring, no salary cap
Collaboration: a Confused Story in Five Graphs
Some graphs about reading and writing on the internet. Less a story than a Rorschach test.
The Cathedral and the Catacombs
Stretching a metaphor deep into the floor.
What does Open Source mean?
A stack of incompatible expectations.
The Top 10 Biggest Conspiracies in Open Source
I'm not connecting these dots. I'm just pointing out that the dots are there.
How to Attract AI Bots to Your Open Source Project
A practical guide to getting the engagement your project deserves.
Announcing New Working Groups
The Open Source Foundations Consortium announces seven new working groups.
Two Kinds of Attestation
The oldest problem in computer science, but with toasters.
Open source funding, a bimodal distribution
Most open source contributors earn little or nothing for sustained, valuable work.
Respectful Open Source
Maintainer attention as a finite resource.
llm-txt.fun
LLM-TXT provides tools to generate files from Farcaster, Bluesky, RSS feeds, and Git repos, building on my earlier llm-fid project.
llm-txt.fun
LLM-TXT provides tools to generate files from Farcaster, Bluesky, RSS feeds, and Git repos, building on my earlier llm-fid project.
BHVR-x402
BHVR-x402 is a modern and lightweight stack for the open web and open payments
BHVR-x402
BHVR-x402 is a modern and lightweight stack for the open web and open payments
Open Source Activity in 2025
A look back at my open source work in 2025: ecosyste.ms, supply chain security tooling, and Ruby gems
Jekyll Stats Plugin
A Jekyll plugin that adds a stats command to show word counts, reading time, posting frequency, and tag distributions.
A Taxonomy for Open Source Software
I'm working on a structured taxonomy for classifying open source projects across multiple dimensions: domain, role, technology, audience, layer, and function.
Community Benchmarks for AI Coding Tools
AI coding benchmarks are heavily skewed toward Python and JavaScript. Framework maintainers could change that by defining what good code looks like in their ecosystems.
Podcast Interviews 2025
A collection of podcast interviews discussing ecosyste.ms, open source metadata, package management, and software sustainability.
Financial Broadsheet for NetNewsWire
A familiar, financial look.
AI: a fork in the road for open source
Introducing the M17 Rust Toolkit
Pure Internet: office---space
Transforming a spare Pi Zero 2 W and Waveshare Environment HAT into a sensor hub that records environmental data every 60 seconds to.
Pure Internet: office---space
Transforming a spare Pi Zero 2 W and Waveshare Environment HAT into a sensor hub that records environmental data every 60 seconds to.