Quiet shoutout to the people who keep #Postgres running.

The reviewers catching the edge case. The maintainers of the extension you've used in production for years and never thanked. The folks answering on the mailing list at 11pm so the next person searching that error finds the answer. The ones keeping the docs honest.

If you've got a minute today: send a thank-you, star a repo, reply to a thread.
The ecosystem runs on this. So does #pgEdge.

#opensource #community #maintainers

Dumb Ways for an Open Source Project to Die

A good chunk of the most-depended-on open source packages are dead, and there are a lot of different ways for a project to end up that way.

#opensource #maintainers #supplychain #pypi #python

https://nesbitt.io/2026/05/19/dumb-ways-for-an-open-source-project-to-die.html
@pythonbytes @mkennedy

I was kinda burnt-out at the end of last year. I felt like there's so much to do, yet too little to to tackle anything.
For the past two months, I've been experimenting with the "1% rule": instead of few heavy lifts, I did smaller things but like every day.

#opensource #maintainers #maintainerlife #coding

Final reminder: The deadline for applications to join the #SovereignTechStandards network is Tuesday, 19 May 2026, at 23:59 CEST.

Open standards shape the digital infrastructure we all rely on. But standards are only as good as the expertise behind them.

https://www.sovereign.tech/programs/standards

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#SovereignTechAgency #DigitalInfrastructure #OpenStandards #FOSS #Maintainers

#OpenSource used to mean trusting skilled developers to build and maintain good #software so others did not need to learn every language, tool, or best practice themselves.

Now, #SupplyChainAttack and #AISlop have made many projects harder to trust.

Too much software is rushed, poorly understood, or built for hype instead of quality.

#Developers now spend more time checking code, #dependencies, and #maintainers instead of simply building software.

#AI was supposed to reduce cognitive load😒

Open standards shape critical digital infrastructure. But the people implementing those standards are often missing from the processes that define them.

In a survey of over 150 #OpenSource #Maintainers, we found strong interest in standards participation and specific structural barriers to sustained engagement.

Learn more about what maintainers told us, and how the new #SovereignTechStandards network aims to close that gap. Applications are open until 19 May 2026!

https://www.sovereign.tech/news/standards-survey-results

Kevin Van Cott has a Hands-On Full-Day Workshop July 22nd at Nebraska.Code().

Find 'TanStack Masterclass - Performant React Apps' here:

https://nebraskacode.amegala.com/

#JavaScriptOSS #TanStack #Maintainers #Frontend #Software #ScalableWebApplications #SSR #OpenSource #EmergingTech #TechWorkshop #TanStackLibraries #TanStackRouter #TanStackQuery #Scalability #SSR #TanStackStart #Nebraska #Iowa #NetworkingEvent