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Lessons from 100+ DevTool founders - DevTools successes, failures and stories in a free weekly email and podcast.

Lessons from 100+ DevTool founders - DevTools successes, failures and stories in a free weekly email and podcast.
Antirez has returned to Redis! Yes, Salvatore Sanfilippo (aka Antirez), the creator of Redis has returned to Redis and he joined us to share the backstory on Redis, what's going on with the tech and the company, the possible (likely) move back to open source via the AGPL license, the new possibilities of AI and vector ...
In this episode of the CHAOSScast, host Alice Sowerby introduces guests Dawn Foster, Cailean Osborne, and Paul Sharratt to discuss the newly formed 'Funding Impact Measurement Working Group' within the CHAOSS community. The panel explores the group's origins, goals, and objectives, emphasizing the importance of mixed method approaches to assess the impact of funding on open source projects. They highlight the significance of both quantitative and qualitative methods to understand the effects of funding better and share insights on creating standardized frameworks for impact assessment. The discussion also touches on the challenges of public versus private funding, the nuances of financial support in open source projects, and the potential benefits of having a collaborative, open forum for related discussions. Hit download now to hear more!
This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Ty Dunn, founder of Continue.dev, which is an open source AI code assistant. We had a fabulous conversation that touched on both the AI hype wave and why open source. The first thing I’d like to touch on is why Continue.dev is open source, in...
Our award-winning JS Party game show is back with a new name, a new channel, and the same ol' survey-response-guessing fun! The JS Party crew join us to see who knows y'all best. Survey says!
This week on The Business of Open Source I spoke with Andrew Martin, CEO and founder of Control Plane. Control Plane is ultimately a consulting company, as Andrew introduced it. But the company also created and maintains KubeSec, and also has an enterprise version of Flux CD that it licenses....
In this episode, open source legal expert Luis Villa breaks down what the EU's Cyber Resilience Act means for developers and businesses, exploring carve-outs for individual contributors and the complex relationship between security and sustainability. Luis provides practical guidance on navigating this evolving regulatory landscape while explaining why the CRA represents both a challenge and an opportunity for the open source ecosystem. The blog post for this episode can be found at
Robert Ross (@BobbyTables) is the CEO of FireHydrant. We discuss the journey of building FireHydrant, the evolution of API design, and the impact of gRPC and REST on developer experience. We also talked about the role of LLMs in API design, the shift towards data consumption trends in...
On the first episode of Request // Response, I speak with John Kodumal, co-founder and former CTO of LaunchDarkly.We discussed how LaunchDarkly used feature flags to separate deployment from release, offering fine-grained control for safer rollouts and experimentation.LaunchDarkly was an early...
Beyang Liu, the CTO & Co-founder of Sourcegraph is back on the pod. Adam and Beyang go deep on the idea of "industrializing software development" using AI agents, using AI in general, using code generation. So much is happening in and around AI and Sourcegraph continues to innovate again and again. From their editor as...
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No #WeekNotes tonight as I'm on holiday for my birthday - may catch up during the week, or next Sunday!
Brian Fox discusses findings from a recent Sonatype report about the growing challenge of malicious packages in open source repositories. At the time of recording there are now over 820,000 malware packages in public repositories. Brian explains why certain ecosystems are more vulnerable than others and how behavioral detection methods can identify suspicious packages, and the challenge in solving this problem. The blog post for this episode can be found at
🛡️ Security releasesGo 1.24.1 & 1.23.7 releasedgolang.org/x/net v0.36.0 releasedgopls v0.18.0 released🇫🇮 Helsinki meetup, March 18, still looking for speakersTypeScript rewrite in Go🌩️ Lightning RoundAsdf Has Been Re-Written in GoGo clients dominate internet API trafficWhy was nvm for Windows...
Off the back of the tj-actions/changed-files
#SupplyChainSecurity attack, I've written up how you can use #DependencyManagementData to determine the impact across your org - already found it's been very useful 👀
It's Kaizen 18! Can you believe it? We discuss the recent Fly.io outage, some little features we've added since our last Kaizen, our new video-first production, and of course, catch up on all things Pipely! Oh, and Gerhard surprises us (once again). BAM!
Finally put the finishing touches to my rewrite of the renovate-graph
docs which I started on Monday at #BatchBunch
There are Web APIs everywhere, from the classic REST/HTTP, to GraphQL, to gRPC, we rely on them to get things done each and every day. But how much do we think about the design of these APIs? How d...
Neurodivergent Senior software engineers, how do you go about the interviews? Any advice you learned the hard way?
Very much looking forward to tomorrow's OpenUK Digital Meetup, where we've got the awesome Kat Cosgrove and @derickr for a "fireside chat" all about what life is like being a core maintainer. Hope to see some of y'all there at 1200 UTC
Attached: 1 image How does your calendar look on Wednesday? Join us for the online OpenUK digital meetup at lunchtime. I've pinned down two open source project maintainers from projects you might have heard of (Kubernetes and PHP) to get their open source stories and some advice that the rest of us can use! See you there https://www.meetup.com/openuk/events/306591774/?eventOrigin=home_next_event_you_are_hosting
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AAAHHHHHHHHH BE NICE TO OPEN SOURCE MAINTAINERS OH MY GOD. SOME OF YOU ARE SO RUDE, WHO RAISED YOU
BATCH BUNCH #0003 is complete. A fun-filled, productive session comes to a close! This time, we welcomed an attendee all the way from London and, universally, marveled at 'felting' being done IRL by another attendee. Hobbies FTW. See you next time? 🖱️⌨️🌐😌☕️
Looking forward to relistening to this one, and we've got plans for a follow up in the works 👀
We've published episode 10: An Exploration of APIs, Versioning, & HTTP. Happy Listening! https://share.transistor.fm/s/8e38cd91
I'm on Fallthrough: An Exploration of APIs, Versioning, & HTTP (1 mins read).
Announcing my appearance as a guest on Fallthrough, talking about APIs, versioning, documentation, and more.
Week Notes 25#09 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-03-03?
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Question for OSS maintainers: what’s the most audacious work a company has ever asked you to do for free? I’ve heard of some projects being asked to fill out security questionnaires for free, but I don’t have a firsthand account of that and it got me curious about what else projects have been asked
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The description suggests that this is some kind of extended metaphor about work. It appears to be written in that _Choose Your Own Adventure_ style second-person voice, yet there are no choices to be found within. Against your better judgment, you follow the link.
Anurag Goel, Founder/CEO of Render, joins Adam to discuss what they're doing to solve cloud problems for application developers. They just raised $80M they don't even need and they're poised to solve boring problems like object storage, and less boring things like building for the AI era.
We all have tools that make our lives better. Software tools, hardware tools, and everything in between. In this episode, Matt is joined by Kris, Ian, and Dylan to discuss some of their favorite to...
🛡️ Security releasesgolang.org/x/crypto v0.35.0golang.org/x/oauth2 v0.27.0ProposalsAccepted: net/http: support content negotiation🧮 Likely accept: math/stats: new package with Mean, Median, moreConferences🇨🇿 Gophercamp, April 25 @ Brno, Czech RepublicCFP open until ??🇨🇭 Go blog: Faster Go maps...
In this heartfelt episode of 99 Dev Problems, Tessa Kriesel sits down with Alex C. Berk, a seasoned front-end developer at Shipium, to explore his journey through tech, the challenges of scaling systems, and how faith and family shape his career.Alex shares his story of growing from a self-taught coder to a pivotal member of a reunited team of Zulily and Amazon alumni. He dives into his work with modern tools like TypeScript, React, and Node.js, and the collaborative culture at Shipium that fuels innovation in supply chain optimization. From solving complex database scaling issues to building a supportive remote-first environment, Alex offers insights into thriving as a developer in today's dynamic tech landscape.Key themes include:Mentorship and the value of building relationships in tech.Strategies for balancing family life and career in a remote-first world.Tackling large-scale technical challenges with creativity and teamwork.How faith influences decisions and impacts community building.Whether you're navigating your early career or leading teams, Alex's thoughtful reflections provide inspiration for every stage of your journey.Where to Find Alex C. Berk: LinkedIn: Alex C. Berk X: @alexcberkGitHub: alexcberkDon’t miss this engaging conversation packed with practical advice and heartfelt stories from the world of tech!
Every time I’m forced to see Trump’s or Musk’s face I deserve compensation.
can't overthink if u don’t think at all
Jerod and Adam use Chris Kiehl's post on development topics he's changed his mind on (over the last 10 years) as a proxy for discussion on dev things they HAVE and HAVE NOT changed their minds on.