"If you were one of the primary decision makers [responsible for the fraying of democracy and the dystopian technology business model], unless you want to accept that you are the villain, you have to have some kind of a mental process for excusing yourself from the results."

you have been visited by the Skylight Napping Fox and will have good fortune for the rest of the week 🤗

I hope interested folks can attend my @europython.eu talk today, happening in S2 at 16:00. I'll be talking about binary dependencies, why they are so hard to detect, and why this poses a problem for our global tech infrastructure.

Anwesha Das @europython.eu

I'm at @europython.eu in Kraków, here to talk about binary dependencies, the @stewardshiplab.org and the @opensourcepledge.com. Come say hi!

I made a website that lets you cut out old magazines from the internet archive (or any PDFs you own) and make collage art out of them: ✂️ clipart.studio

I've had multiple people say some sentence or another in a post I wrote sounds LLM-written. I never use LLMs. Not sure what to do! Add a disclaimer? Ignore it? Feels weird.

and we wonder why people are burning out

I don’t know how to explain to my American family and friends that this is now the man entrusted with the UK’s political salvation from fascism. For clarity, I am referring to the man on the left with a bin for a face, not the incoming prime minister on the right.

@43081j.com what a legend

realtime train map of UK www.map.signalbox.io

@eurosky.social folks, would you consider a @mu.social feature allowing users to quickly switch between accounts? I regularly use 3 accounts, and switching currently involves 3 clicks using the settings menu — a bit clunky. elk.zone has this switcher at the bottom of the sidebar.

Hi, friends. The last 6 years have been a blast, but I just don't like being on The Internet anymore. I'm leaving DevRel, and I wrote a little bit about why. Look after yourselves, and each other. Love, Salma

We're grateful to be helping @mu.social and @eurosky.social as a Trusted Verifier of the Open Source community! ✨️ If you have feedback on the verification process, let us know.

such an important post

hey that's me

This is how easy it is to migrate to European, nonprofit-governed infrastructure 🥰

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To celebrate companies that pay maintainers, we've created a new website, featuring @danielroe.dev and folks from @ag-grid.bsky.social, @sanity.io, @sentry.io and other great companies. Let's support the tech we depend on. Here's to the next $7 million! 💃

not even my worst enemy, the dreaded London heat, can stop me from attending this

Loving the plural verification thing that's taking off on mu.social. 💖💥 We should never have verification depend on the rules of just one company. That's just not how civilised spaces work.

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

tfw you do the biggest nap ever

this is so cool

Happy to see OSS maintainer burnout in the public discourse—good job Matthew! 'Heath believes governments should invest more in open source' - that she does 😘

What is lost when women live haunted by the possibility of seeming crazy and being written off on that basis? katemanne.substack.com/p/when-youre...

> Crises happen to “problematic” people, too; often in such cases people who would otherwise consider themselves allies of social justice can find in a problematic person a convenient excuse to participate in these gleeful humiliation rituals themselves.

> Harbuz says “GitHub will say ‘oh, we realise [AI] agents have been such a problem, we’re gonna maybe do something to fix it’ and it’s like, it’s you, right? You, GitHub, did this”. GitHub did not respond to a request for comment. I said it 🤷

Paywalled, but, I am quoted in this article being extremely grumpy about GitHub 😂

The media & political classes (left + right) tend to guess wrong about the public - who have a *much* stronger common sense consensus on civic "inclusive nativism" than most of the commentariat seem to realise

Productivity doesn't matter if you're working on the wrong thing.

got inspired by the work of @joshwcomeau.com to add animated icons to my website, and yeah, it sparks a lot of joy :3

My dear friend Chad is retiring from tech. Nobody has taught me more about Open Source, or about kindness and compassion. Between Gittip and the Pledge, Chad has helped OSS devs more than almost anyone. I will miss him very much, and I will try every day to carry his work forward. ❤️💃

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A new way to explore your node modules folder: nesbitt.io/heap

the replacements.fyi site now lets you drop a package.json into it to see which dependencies can be replaced with native functionality, or more performant choices 🎉

A new report from Bloomberg explains why companies should move “from passive consumption to active stewardship” of the Open Source packages they rely on: “you cannot have sustainable code without sustaining the humans who write it (…) if you live in the house, you help fix the roof”.

open source is gift economy, but the thing being gifted is the code, not unlimited access to abuse maintainers

OSS burnout claims another project. On 2 Apr, an entitled user angrily asked the burned-out maintainer of nvim-treesitter to “go switch to something that doesn't require interacting with people”. The maintainer replied “OK” — and archived the repo, stopping development of nvim-treesitter.

I said what I said katemanne.substack.com/p/how-sex-po...

"Keep open by default. Making everything private adds additional delivery and policy costs, and can reduce reuse and scrutiny. Openness should remain the default posture, with closure used sparingly and deliberately." www.gov.uk/guidance/ai-...

There's lots of important messaging in this new guidance from GDS / DSIT on AI, open code and vulnerability risk. In particular: "Private repositories can create a false sense of security" and "Openness can surface issues earlier" www.gov.uk/guidance/ai-...

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Andrew has been building tools to understand the Open Source ecosystem for over a decade, and a new independent paper confirms the effectiveness of his approach to supporting maintainers. I want to celebrate his work today! 🎉

Open Source maintainers need funding. But this means we also need to pay the researchers who create the very tools that allow companies to discover and pay the maintainers they depend on. Research on sustainability should itself be sustainable — otherwise, we'll struggle to get off the ground!

A very telling chart. Open Source funding has been frozen for the past four years, while everyone's needs for our shared commons infrastructure have continued to grow exponentially. Pay maintainers properly if you want your dependencies to stop feeling like a minefield.

So @patak.cat is absolutely doing the work. He is sharing a lot of important, thoughtful, pieces about how people, mostly builders, are feeling right now, the stresses and strains of the current era. I suggest you might appreciate following him.

listen to @vlad.website

The Mismeasure of Open Source: nesbitt.io/2026/05/09/t...