I just closed my GitHub Sponsors account, saying goodbye to over $16k in monthly sponsorships. These sponsorships allowed me to build a team around Material for MkDocs, and now, Zensical. With Zensical Spark, we're on a new track to OSS sustainability: zensical.org/spark/

Zensical – a modern static site generator. We're excited to release @zensical.org, our new SSG that is compatible with Material for MkDocs: – 5x faster rebuilds – Modern design – Blazing-fast search Read the full announcement on our blog: squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-mater... A thread ⬇ 1/7

If you install a fresh copy of MkDocs, livereload won't work, so MkDocs won't rebuild your project as you make changes. I've updated this reported issue with details on what is happening and how to work around it until the problem is fixed upstream. github.com/squidfunk/mk...

A full-stack day - it started with Floyd-Warshall and ended in navigation icon resolution.

1/2 Phishing by using GitHub issues as a transport – the email looks quite legit, includes a link to a typo-squatted domain (y-comblnator.com) they want you to click on, followed by a lot of whitespace to hide the common GitHub issue footer ⬇️

AI-generated slop as PRs incoming. github.com/squidfunk/mk...

Open Source is not a democracy. It's a meritocracy. Absolute must-watch interview with David Heinemeier Hansson aka DHH, creator of Ruby on Rails. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTa2...

Coming back from preparing new docs for the past 3 weeks with my team, I'm so happy to return to Rust. IMHO, the best programming language of the time. It enables me to think clearly. I've also written some TypeScript lately, and I don't enjoy it as much as I did before Rust.

So seeing the current state of AI, I'm very happy me and my team focused on hard engineering topics around Material for MkDocs in the last 15 months, not building yet another "it has AI now" technology. Close to launch, and no, it's definitely not just a something+AI.

The last missing puzzle piece in making the templates of Material for MkDocs compatible with minijinja.

Several users reached out to us, that a quite fatal bug in MkDocs emerged 10 hours ago that silently changes all URLs to *.html format. Your site will still work, but all links are different. It can be mitigated with "pip install click<8.2.2" github.com/mkdocs/mkdoc...

Very good talk on why OOP was a mistake. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo84...

Fascinating how some users choose passive-aggressive entitlement for their very first interaction with Open Source maintainers. Kindness costs nothing. We’re humans, not a support SLA 🫠

Choose your dependencies wisely.

👋 Any other Open Source maintainer here getting tagged on GitHub by users with no public contributions on projects that you do not maintain, asking for you to look into the problem described? What the actual... Always happy to work for free!

I'm astonished some users prefer non-standard (and IMHO noisy) Markdown syntax over plain HTML, with developers going to great lengths coming up with new syntax constructs. In what world is this [↑] better than this [↓]?

My single most effective method for solving complex problems that you're stuck on: going for a run. When I do this in the morning, solutions to problems just pop into my head, and my work day gets a head start. I don't listen to music, I just let the thinking happen.

Time and attention is all you got. Use it wisely. Build epic shit, do things you love. Money is only a means to an end and material things will not make you happy. Just my opinion.

Wow, all my reserved crates on crates.io just got deleted, and one is now used by somebody else. The usage policy of crates.io says that crates are FCFS and ownership transfer is not possible without approval of the owner. Did somebody experience this?

📣 Material for MkDocs Update We're experimenting with alternative ways to manage our public issue tracker. From now on, change requests will be moved to our new public backlog, and prioritized according to our roadmap that we'll release soon ☺️ github.com/squidfunk/mk...

First measurement for the new preview server I've been working on as part of the foundational work on Material for MkDocs: 🚀 50x more req/s than 'mkdocs serve' 🏗️ Extensible middleware architecture 🤏 Tiny, only very few dependencies We're making good progress!

Look Ma, no macros! 🙌 If you need to work with mixed tuples in Rust (varying length and mixed types), the tuple_list crate is absolutely invaluable. It allows you to comfortably work with tuples in generics without writing a single macro. docs.rs/tuple_list/

It's surprising that in 2025, Hugo (Go) and Zola (Rust) remain the only widely-used static site generators with true parallel build capabilities. There's a clear opportunity here ☺️

🐍+🦀 Debugging PyO3 with Visual Studio Code I just created a demo project that shows how to debug Python and Rust in tandem – tricky, but absolutely worth it. It already supports Python scripts and tests. You can find it here: github.com/squidfunk/py...

🚀 Material for MkDocs in-browser configurator by @dbodky.me www.materialconfig.dev

👋 Have two minutes spare? You can help us test some changes we made to our templates to make it easier to explore alternative Jinja-compatible template engines like minijinja (Rust), allowing us to improve rendering performance 🚀 github.com/squidfunk/mk...

Widespread phishing attack on GitHub www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

Michael F. Bryan's blog is a treasure for Rustaceans: adventures.michaelfbryan.com/posts/rust-c...

Still no response from npm 😔 I've now created an announcement on our issue tracker. Another one of my requests to npm about migrating an organization to another account was answered immediately. github.com/squidfunk/mk...

🚨 Malicious package called "mkdocs-material" on npm. Yesterday, a malicious package with the name "mkdocs-material" was released on npm. DO NOT INSTALL IT. We've reported it, and hope that @npmjs responds fast and deletes it quickly. osv.dev/vulnerabilit...

LLMs are not going to end programming – au contraire, solid CS skills and experience have become more important than ever, unless you want to wrap everything into Arcs and Mutexes. In that case ChatGibbity is enough.

In case you missed it (I did): www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lit...

I just love this album cover – and song. Music for programming. www.youtube.com/watch?v=va9K...

Still astonished that companies rely on OSS without supporting it financially. OSS is a dependency, which means it's also a liability – if a maintainer burns out or walks away, you're left with a rotting piece of code in your stack. It might even put your business at risk.

Those MkDocs plugins currently have compatibility issues, judging from open issues on the respective issue trackers, so be cautious when using them together. We're currently working on making it easier to make third-party plugins compatible 🤟

Defects rate going up. I only use CoPilot for the stupid, really repetitive stuff. The good and complex problems I always keep for myself. I mean, that's the fun in coding, right? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et8C...

Material for MkDocs 9.6.0 is out, which includes several new features from Insiders, thanks to the latest funding goal being hit, including: - 🤔 Meta plugin - ✍️ Additional features for blog plugin - 🏷️ Brand new tags plugin - 🧭 Navigation subtitles bsky.app/profile/squi...

🥳 We've reached our next funding goal! 2024 has been an amazing year for the project, as the sponsorships allowed me to finally start building an awesome team around my ideas, making it possible for me to focus on the most high impact tasks. Thank you, dear sponsors!

The best part of having a team working on Material for MkDocs? I can finally offload some of my cognitive load and focus on the biggest impact tasks. It truly is a game-changer, all made possible through sufficient Open Source funding.

AI Slop is taking over Google. restack.io is one of those sites that start showing up in results, using our documentation as their sources. Here, a completely useless article on case insensitive regex matching: www.restack.io/p/ai-impleme...

Trying to set up a Windows 365 Cloud instance – and failed. I can't enter a mobile number for account verification, then getting redirected to a 404'ing support page. Every time. Much better experience with AWS Workspaces. Setting up Windows was almost straight forward.

This is why we can't have nice things – fsevents + vim on macOS when :wq'ing a new file from vim. And yes, as you can probably guess, I'm working on a resilient file watcher right now 🧐

It's too real! Too real! Frontend development became a mess 😅 www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWfY...

2024 was the second year of declining funding on Open Collective. OSS funding stays stable at around 10M, but still quite worrying. discover.opencollective.com

20 years of experience in IT, and I'm still too incompetent to install Windows 11 in a VM on an M2 MacBook Pro.

I always use Copilot for writing doc comments 🤟

Nothing can beat healthy, organic growth. It gives you a lot of time to learn, experiment, and find balance. I'm a bootstrapper by heart, and can't see myself taking money from VCs any time soon. I just want to build awesome, useful software. More revenue = more helping hands.

I just love this game – built this on RCT's Crazy Castles.

🍭We're finally making stickers! As part of our current foundational work efforts, we want to give you a fun way to show your love with a sticker for your notebook. 👉 Q: Any recommendations for high-quality sticker printing services? Let me know in the comments!