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Introducing 🦍Gorilla! A YouTube wrapper that give parents the ultimate control over what their kids watch. I built this for my kids, and they love it. Moreover, they watch LESS NOW. Check out out at gorilla.tube www.linkedin.com/pulse/introd... #parenting #ipadkids #youtube #indiedev

Bought a domain and pushed some content to it. Early analytics turned up WAY too many hits. Wayback says it hosted porn about 5 years ago. I guess availability is no longer the only concern on domain searches - you might be inheriting a WHOLE LOT of unwanted traffic.

Finally released my long-form version of Finite Source Machines: Contribution for Busy Humans from All Things Open this October. Read it at approachableopensource.com/blog/2025-op... Thanks again to @allthingsopen.bsky.social for the opportunity. #opensource #lessonsfrom500yearsago

It's Friday night, so of course I spent it opening a bug report to GitHub on their SBOM generation feature. SBOMs reference a branch, with no correlation to the sha of the current commit on the default branch. Very simple win to introduce true traceability. #FridayNightCoding #GitHub #SBOM

Gave brianmuenzenmeyer.com a facelift this week. I've leaned into this notion that I don't fit into a neat box anymore. I'm a multifaceted leader and human, at work, in life, in my relationship, etc. I keep seeing this reality in my travels, and sometimes it even hinders me.

🌐 For immediate release, from my desk to your device... 📰 Saturday News Drop! 📓 New post: Open Source Pace Layers, now live on the approachableopensource.com blog! approachableopensource.com/blog/2025-op...

Recording for my @jsconf.bsky.social talk is now up www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRxS... #opensource #nodejs

You know you have a good open source team when you can resolve a production outage from report, triage, debugging, fix, testing, through to PR merge and deployment in 57 minutes. #nodejs #opensource github.com/nodejs/nodej... github.com/nodejs/nodej...

Well enough. I rambled a bit because I was off script, but no one said I bombed it lol. So that's good. Now I hope we can get the folks at @github.com to put a pause on next months changes for @npmjs.bsky.social publishing. 🤞

Hahahhahahha. There are two other known typos, not intentionally. These hardware bugs are harder to patch!

👕I sported this tee at @allthingsopen.bsky.social the other day - and in celebration you can pick up your own copy of the #opensource stack! #community & #issues & #pullrequests & #releases & #api & #license Get yours over at approachableopensource.com

Thesis for the taking the pictures and the fun times this week!

Slides for my @allthingsopen.bsky.social talk are up - Finite Source Machines: Contribution for Busy Humans! Exports are sometimes bizarre, but the gist is there and I plan to long form present it on the blog too. noti.st/brianmuenzen... #opensource #allthingsopen

Introducing 🥁🥁🥁 our JavaScriptLandia award recipients for this year! Beyond building new features, our recipients guide others, maintain essential systems, document the hard parts, and strengthen the community every step of the way. 💙 Read more about our honorees here: hubs.la/Q03NQvx10

Node.js You Don't Need a Dependency Slides for my @jsconf.bsky.social talk are up. Thanks to everyone for listening and the many great conversations after! noti.st/brianmuenzen... #nodejs #jsconf #opensource

This is tomorrow! Right behind registration. See you there! In addition: - One talk today - One talk tomorrow

Find me next week at @allthingsopen.bsky.social in Raleigh to snag a copy of @approachableopensource.com This full-spectrum primer on the open source software landscape continues to meet the moment. If you cannot attend, check approachableopensource.com to buy a print or ebook copy. #opensource

Community highlights ✨ - @squiggleconf.com happened! - @brianmuenzenmeyer.com shares pure TS GitHub Actions - @azraelsec.sh type branding ELI5 - @evanhahn.com don't use ts-ignore - Matt Brown explains using Node's Test Runner with TypeScript & React - Motion AI on why they're moving off of TS

Guess what!? Pure @typescriptlang.org @github.com Actions with no build process now work! I made this demo at github.com/bmuenzenmeye...

I gotta appreciate the cultural overlap of #fortnite - it just showed a set of Beavis and Butthead skins to my boys and they were positively fascinated - having never seen or heard of them before.

Brian Muenzenmeyer (@brianmuenzenmeyer.com), Principal Engineer for @nodejs.org, joins us on stage to share their insights. Don't miss "Finite Source Machines: Contribution for Busy Humans" at #AllThingsOpen! 2025.allthingsopen.org/sessions/fin...

fun news! I was laid off from Twilio. going to take this weekend to chill out, and will start looking for roles next week. if you or someone you know is looking for staff/principal level Developer Advocacy, OSPO, dev infra, or similar roles pass them along! reposts from tech folks appreciated <3

@aviv.sh and I are working on an End of Life (EOL) page for @nodejs.org. Better communicating the risks of staying on out of date software is work worth doing, and helps the entire ecosystem stay safer. github.com/nodejs/nodej... #opensource #nodejs #vulnerabilities #cve

New Pride spotlight from @thisismissem.social 🌈💚 She shares how coming out and contributing to open source shaped her journey in tech. Read it here: nodejs.org/en/blog/comm...

A two-fer - I'll be at @jsconf.bsky.social too, right after @allthingsopen.bsky.social - talking about advancements in @nodejs.org making userland simpler. I hope to see you there!

Happy Pride 🌈 In our latest blog post, @vcarl.com shares a powerful reflection on open source and identity: nodejs.org/en/blog/comm... We're spotlighting LGBTQ voices in the Node.js community. Got a story to share? Submit a PR: github.com/nodejs/nodej...

🚀 Announcement: I'll be speaking at #AllThingsOpen this October, talking about "​​Finite Source Machines: Contribution for Busy Humans". I hope to see you there!

I spent about a month ranking MLS team crests according to design principles, at least as I've come to know them. It was fun to compare notes with Jack too. brianmuenzenmeyer.com/posts/2025-m... #mls #soccer #design

⚽️New post: Soccer A running list of games I or the family have been fortunate enough to attend. This is a good post to tend, digital garden style. brianmuenzenmeyer.com/posts/2025-s...

The future of OSUOSL is in jeopardy - as a nonprofit, they provide free infrastructure for many OSS projects, nurturing smaller projects and filling out support matrices for bigger projects like Node.js. Please help them keep the lights on for the OSS world! osuosl.org/blog/osl-fut...

I also went to @brianmuenzenmeyer.com's Node dependency talk, where he shared some great tips on what's new in Node and what npm deps you don't need anymore!

Slides for my standing-room-only talk "Do I Still Need This Dependency for My @nodejs.org App?" Overwhelming feedback was that they wished this was on an official resource somewhere. noti.st/brianmuenzen... #nodejs #minnebar19

Join me at sold out, record turnout, and my first @minnestar.org Minnebar this Saturday. I'm slated for session 1 at 9:35 AM: "Do I still need this dependency for my @nodejs.org app?" sessions.minnestar.org

Are two nearly identical "hot takes" fusion or fission? Suppose that's what a screenshot if LinkedIn of a sceenshot of Twitter now on Bluesky gets us. Setting down the anxiety rectangle for now.

Here just to relay that my six year old said that the best #marchmadness team is "Dookie". Love that pronunciation, no notes little man.

🐕 Moved around some copies of Approachable Open Source today to make room for our puppy. Shameless marketing opportunities soon! #opensource #booksky

The world needs more light than heat right now. I explored making the book more discoverable through Amazon fulfillment, and three failed sign ups later, nothing happened. But they took my money. So screw it. More people will read this, one way or another. Enjoy! #opensource #booksky #free

🌇 create-react-app is finally deprecated. 🎈 This is a moment to celebrate clarity in a community. My team has been tracking this inevitability since 2021. It should not be a surprise to anyone paying attention. #create-react-app #opensource #sustainability

I think I finally resolved the source of so many #i18n problems with @nodejs.org work - reference-style markdown links without an id will use the display text...but that gets translated. ``` [link text][] // translate me, break the link! ... [link text](url...) ``` github.com/nodejs/nodej...

areward things about putting more and more of approachableopensource.com online is that I can add creature comforts, like link crawling. I started this today and already found dead links - like what I thought would be a good authoritative resource www.secondcity.com/network/how-...

💥 ANNOUNCEMENT: I’m excited to share that I — along with my brother Ian Frost — are going fully independent: bradfrost.com/blog/post/an...

Thanks Mike! Appreciate the kind words. 💚

Upgraded approachableopensource.com to @astro.build@5, cold, in about 14 minutes. Good resource and CLI help at docs.astro.build/en/guides/up...

I gave this a read and can't recommend it enough for folks who want a holistic view of what open source really means at the ground level.

Jeff Atwood steps up to be a thing that’s sorely needed in tech right now: a leader. He actually *gives* half of his current net worth (not a pledge — he already cut checks) to 8 organizations helping the most vulnerable. blog.codinghorror.com/stay-gold-am... An inspiring move, when it most matters.

🎙️ ICYMI: Approachable Open Source has a trio of podcast appearances for your enjoyment. - 1️⃣ Shop Talk Show with @davatron5000.bsky.social and @chriscoyier.net - 2️⃣ @sustainoss.bsky.social with @richlitt.bsky.social and @abbycabs.dev - 3️⃣ CloudChat with Carl Schweitzer and @brandonmartinez.com

Great to see the project doing everything it can to make software more secure! Many organizations have SLAs to mitigate vulnerabilities, and this intakes into them.

🤔 Pretty much since the inception of Approachable Open Source, I’ve asked myself and others, “should the book itself be #opensource?” We’ll get to that below. But, let’s not bury the lede. 📗 Read the book at approachableopensource.com/read/ 📑 View the source github.com/approachable...

Brian Muenzenmeyer (https://brianmuenzenmeyer.com/) talks about his book, Approachable Open Source (https://approachableopensource.com/), emphasizing diverse contributions and inclusive paths in open source. Listen at 🎙️ https://podcast.sustainoss.org/262