I work on protecting the Open Source infrastructure the world depends on. I live in Edinburgh and love cats & birds.
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※ Executive Director @stewardshiplab.org ✸
※ Director @opensourcepledge.com
※ Adviser @endowment.dev
Vlad-Stefan Harbuz
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> 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 🤷
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 😘
got inspired by the work of @joshwcomeau.com to add animated icons to my website, and yeah, it sparks a lot of joy :3
> 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.
this is so cool
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...
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. ❤️💃
Paywalled, but, I am quoted in this article being extremely grumpy about GitHub 😂
Productivity doesn't matter if you're working on the wrong thing.
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
