We need everyone to wake up to how fragile our shared commons are. We can't wait until we drown in security incidents and more projects close down, using them as excuses. If you're in a position to help (every company is), check who you depend on and need support (everyone), and fund them.

While others race away from Open Source, @vlt.sh is doubling down. 🖤⚡ Today we’re announcing our renewed commitment to @opensourcepledge.com and investing back into the ecosystem. www.vlt.io/blog/doublin...

Shout-out to ethicalads.io: they donate ads that account for about 30% of the traffic to our website. Working together to #paythemaintainers! 🙌

I really enjoyed talking to @josh.bressers.name about the @opensourcepledge.com, and about why and how we should support Open Source maintainers 😊

Welcome aboard to Synergy, everyone's favorite software KVM. 🖥️ 🖥️ 🖥️ ⌨️ 🖱️ opensourcepledge.com/members/syne...

I tip my hat to everyone out there that is doing the thankless, unpaid work to ensure their environments & software stays safe/secure. At @vlt.sh we're giving back (ex. @opensourcepledge.com) & building a package manager that attacks the last mile problem with a zero trust approach.

We're touched by Foxley Talent's dedication to the Open Source ecosystem we all rely on. 🫶 “The last 12 months have been the hardest since I started Foxley Talent (...) [but] for the fourth year running, I have donated $5,000 to the Django Software Foundation (...) it's non negotiable”

It’s official. Mux is part of the @opensourcepledge.com. $77,730 ($2,101/dev) to OSS in 2025, plus stewarding Video.js, the web’s most popular open source player. @mmcc.io wrote about why we signed -- and the dinner conversation that made us act: www.mux.com/blog/mux-joi...

Welcome aboard to @mux.com! With that we are up over $7 MM total cash contributed to Open Source maintainers by Pledge member companies since launch! 💃 Their post: www.mux.com/blog/mux-joi... Their page: opensourcepledge.com/members/mux/

The invisible code running the world (and who pays for it) https://www.softwareheritage.org/2026/03/20/the-invisible-code-running-the-world-and-who-pays-for-it/ #OpenSource #SWH10

Private Packagist supports the Open Source ecosystem, and we want to celebrate them today 🔥

“In Open Source, what looks like fairness often is not. Free for everyone sounds equitable, but the cost does not disappear. It is absorbed by those who can least afford it, while the organizations that benefit most often pay the least.”

Vlad-Stefan Harbuz: "This kind of trust reveals a deep understanding present in npmx’s culture — an understanding that we depend on other people more than we know, and that we can only go so far by ourselves." 🤍💚

Congratulations to the @npmx.dev team on their launch day! 🎉❤️ Here's @vlad.website on how npmx's success shows us why Open Source collaboration itself is so special.

To keep the Open Source software the world relies on healthy, we need to build healthy Open Source communities. Want to help? You could build a thriving, empathetic OSS community as @railway.com's new Community Engineer! opensourcepledge.com/jobs/

Congratulations to the @npmx.dev team on their launch day! 🎉❤️ Here's @vlad.website on how npmx's success shows us why Open Source collaboration itself is so special.

Congrats to npmx on their launch day! 🥳And for not only building an incredibly useful browser, but for all the thought they have put into to building a welcoming and healthy community! Inspiring 💖

The @npmx.dev PDS is now our Bluesky home, too! Feels great to be part of an Open Source community server. Thanks, @baileytownsend.dev and @patak.cat!

OSS maintainers, if a company sent you a chunk of cash, what would you spend it on? @patak.cat spent it on infra helping him continue his Open Source adventures. Would you buy tools you need? Or use it to take care of your physical/mental health? Tell us, so we can make the best case to companies✨️

I'm one of the early "members" of the Open Source Endowment. Eager to see where this is going: "Truly sustainable funding for critical OSS through a community‑driven endowment" https://endowment.dev/

It's true. He did.

We just launched the Open Source Endowment, the first endowment dedicated to supporting Open Source maintainers, with $693,000 raised already. The world depends on Open Source, but making our ecosystem sustainable is a complex task. I hope that, with community consultation, the Endowment can help 🙏

That paper last month about how vibe coding kills Open Source? Right conclusion but wrong title. Afaict vibe coding *fuels* Open Source ... but so does money, yeah. New blog post: openpath.quest/2026/fueling...

as @mirandaheath.website said "it is time to recognize the humans behind open source". every maintainer burnouts eventually. everyone need to understand, fast, that the current state is unsustainable. but change will only come from between our lines. we'll need to change the game ourselves.

“I dove into Claude Code. I spent three 12+ hour days with it. I was intoxicated. My family was weirded out. Something felt off. (...) [I] ran as far away as I could to clear my head, through a deadly snowstorm to visit an old Amish friend.”

Proud to announce we are joining @opensourcepledge.com at @coderabbitai.bsky.social we already committed more than $600,000 in year 2025, we will be paying this amount over the year since we started sponsorship. www.coderabbit.ai/blog/we-are-...

Here's my FOSDEM 2026 talk about phantom binary dependencies 👻 — software packages we depend on without realising it, which leads to security and sustainability issues.

*Great* example.

I wanna say this out loud. A few months ago, I told Evan that @voidzero.dev should stop sponsoring me. I burned out, and I couldn't help Vite as before. But they decided to continue supporting me while I was down. And by doing so, they helped me get back on my feet sooner. Thank y'all ❤️

Now listening to @vlad.website talk about 👻 phantom dependencies in the context of funding initiatives like @opensourcepledge.com #FOSDEM

Come to my FOSDEM talk on Saturday to hear a terrifying tale about _phantom dependencies_! 👻

Please welcome @railway.com as the newest member of @opensourcepledge.com 🎉 They rely on OSS projects like @vite.dev, @tanstack.com, @drizzle.team and @tailwindcss.com, and they're doing their part to sustain the ecosystem, from which we all benefit. Read all about it:

You can also give back and help sustain the projects you use by creating thoughtful issues (read antfu.me/posts/why-reproductions-are-required by @antfu.me), and helping where you can. Before talking with your employer, get a good pitch in order. @opensourcepledge.com is a great way to approach it.

Last week, we talked about some of our bigger contributions to foundations, but it's important to fund smaller projects as well. Here are some other folks we want to highlight... 🧵

[email protected] co-founder, Josh built this cool tool called Tribute, a Claude Code skill to support your OSS dependencies. If you don't support the projects you rely on, you're running out of excuses! Check it out: github.com/jshchnz/trib...

Yes, yes, this 💯 but why are you in the shower???? 🤷‍♂️🚿

All maintainers. All the time. No excuses, join the Pledge. @opensourcepledge.com

We are overdue with our @opensourcepledge.com for 2025, but hearing the news from @tailwindcss.com made us turn around and get it done™ We're now processing $146,000 to open source projects that we use and like at Sanity HQ. www.sanity.io/blog/open-so...

It's heartbreaking to see widely-used frameworks like Tailwind become even less financially sustainable due to LLMs. I appreciated Tailwind's creator sharing his feelings of failure and frustration in an emotionally vulnerable way, and I made a short video to explain how I see the problem.

We've heard people like Starter Packs, so we just begun putting one together for open source organizations. It could be an OSPO like us, a Foundation that supports projects and the ecosystem or accounts for OSS events. Take a look and tell us who else should be there. go.bsky.app/Te7sTt9

You have no excuse for @tailwindcss.com.

@tailwindcss.com's business model went away overnight — partly because LLMs are accelerating the Open Source sustainability crisis. I wrote a post about how LLMs popularise projects while simultaneously financially harming their creators. Another reason for companies to join @opensourcepledge.com.

Like the rest of the internet, Sentry runs on Open Source. Like the rest of the @opensourcepledge.com companies, we also believe in paying it back. In 2025, we gave out $750k to the OSS projects we rely on; here’s a sampling of some of them, and why they are so crucial 🧵

prospective Pledge co's: idk it's a lot of money, will it really help with recruiting? prospective employees:

Just re-upped my @opensourcepledge.com for 2025. If you get value from open source projects, donating a small fraction of your income is a fantastic way to give back to those people whose work you depend on. Thanks to all the open source maintainers who have helped make my career possible!

Job update: I'm going to start as a frontend dev at @sentry.io on February 16th! 🥳 Sentry has a stellar product I've enjoyed using, lovely people, and an excellent relationship with open source. I'm really looking forward to joining the team. A few open source FAQs... 1/🧵

could you make it one day without using open source? @vlad.website tried

Did you know? @cranberrysoss.bsky.social is even better on leftover turkey sandos! Be like @vlad.website👇, get yours now and #thankthemaintainers Buy: checkout.sentry.shop/products/cra...

I am tremendously grateful for open source, as it’s had such a huge impact on my career. That’s one of the reasons I’m so happy that Posit has committed to the @opensourcepledge.com. Read about our contributions to non Posit projects at posit.co/blog/posit-o....