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How to Attract AI Bots to Your Open Source Project: https://nesbitt.io/2026/03/21/how-to-attract-ai-bots-to-your-open-source-project.html

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How to Attract AI Bots to Your Open Source Project

A practical guide to getting the engagement your project deserves.

Andrew Nesbitt

Andrew Nesbitt 2d ago

Best use of a big wing 🍕

Andrew Nesbitt 3d ago

I’ve had a fun idea but it’s going to require forking a package manager as I don’t think any of them really allow you to stick your fingers in their dependency resolution algorithms out of the box

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Andrew Nesbitt 3d ago

I stand corrected: https://github.com/andrew/nesbitt.io/pull/47

Add new post: How to Attract AI Bots to Your Open Source Project by malditogeek · Pull Request #47 · andrew/nesbitt.io

Summary Adds a satire post in the spirit of "16 Best Practices for Reducing Dependabot Noise" and "PromptVer" Deadpan enterprise consulting advice for maintainers who feel left...

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Andrew Nesbitt 3d ago

I’ve not really had any ai bots open prs on any of my oss projects, feeling a bit left out of the slop party 🎂

Andrew Nesbitt 3d ago

Nerd sniped again, this time by @miketheman, into looking at how various package managers do mirroring: https://nesbitt.io/2026/03/20/package-manager-mirroring.html

Package Manager Mirroring

Every mirroring tool I could find, and the protocols underneath them.

Andrew Nesbitt

Andrew Nesbitt 4d ago

The Fragmented World of Dependency Policy: https://nesbitt.io/2026/03/19/the-fragmented-world-of-dependency-policy.html

The Fragmented World of Dependency Policy

Every tool that makes automated decisions about dependencies invented its own policy format. There are standards for describing software components but none for writing rules about them.

Andrew Nesbitt

Andrew Nesbitt 4d ago

The Fragmented World of Dependency Policy: https://nesbitt.io/2026/03/19/the-fragmented-world-of-dependency-policy.html

The Fragmented World of Dependency Policy

Every tool that makes automated decisions about dependencies invented its own policy format. There are standards for describing software components but none for writing rules about them.

Andrew Nesbitt

Andrew Nesbitt 4d ago

Bastien Guerry 🧢4d ago

What's if you could ~$ git clone SWHID?

"You’d end up with git clone as a content-addressed fetch primitive rather than just a URL fetch, which is an interesting building block for reproducible builds and supply chain verification."

A nice write-up by @andrewnez on git remote helpers 👉 https://nesbitt.io/2026/03/18/git-remote-helpers.html

#Git #SWHID #ReproducibleBuilds

Git Remote Helpers

Git can talk to anything if you write the right helper.

Andrew Nesbitt

Andrew Nesbitt 5d ago

Nerd sniped by @bzg into writing about git remote helpers: https://nesbitt.io/2026/03/18/git-remote-helpers.html

Git Remote Helpers

Git can talk to anything if you write the right helper.

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