open source

Over the years, I’ve built up a repository of resources that have shaped my thinking about software engineering, open source, work, life, and so much more. Every so often, I reference them in conversation and am asked for links, other recommendations, and thoughts or commentary about them. This year, I’ll be posting two or three every month, both as a way to revisit them as well as share a few thoughts about how they have changed how I journey throughout this (sometimes confusing) world.

Shifting the view of open source from the resulting code to the social systems that create the code is critical when driving towards long-term sustainability of technology as a whole.

What can we do with a social model of open source? The opportunities are endless.

Identifying and sharing the status of open source projects.

How to encourage a thriving open source community.

The email that you use with your open source commits isn’t just perfunctory—it can communicate intent and important context

Breaking down the barriers to open source contribution.

There’s so much more to open source than what fits into a license.

There’s so much more to open source than what fits into a license.