Evil Martians

@evilmartians
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Design and engineering consultancy for developer tools, AI, and cybersecurity startups. Lago, Tines, Teleport, Wallarm, and Whop grow with Evil Martians.
Websitehttps://evilmartians.com
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Evil Martians2h ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@evilmartians/116335486320872860

We just donated to @wooorm as part of our open source donation program! He's an engineer based in the Netherlands and the maintainer of 550+ OSS projects with 38B+ downloads per year.

If your project uses Markdown, there's a good chance it already runs on one of his tools. His most well-known project is mdx, used for writing Markdown with JSX components.

He also has newer Rust-based implementations.

If Markdown is part of your stack, consider donating too: https://github.com/sponsors/wooorm

Show threadEvil Martians6h ago
We're also working on making backend project donations more intentional, we'll keep you posted. And we encourage other companies to start donating too.
Show threadEvil Martians6h ago

See, businesses are built on top of solutions they didn't build and don't control.

And deep in the back, there are tired, underfunded, and unrecognized maintainers doing a ton of work to keep our industry afloat, with no reward.

Unpaid OSS maintainers are also especially vulnerable to security threats. They lack the dedicated time, resources, and organizational support needed to keep pace with increasingly sophisticated threats.

We want to help change that.

Show threadEvil Martians6h ago

This matters a lot to us.

We see how maintainers lose motivation and stop believing in their projects. This is our small contribution to show up for the open source community and the people who are altruistically keeping the industry moving.

Evil Martians6h ago

We stopped donating to your open source project every month. Here's why.

We believe keeping OSS maintainers motivated can help prevent burnout.

So we're starting a new process for frontend solutions:

1. Meeting once a year to create a list of OSS and maintainers we follow, use, and find value in.

2. Donating to 15 projects a year that we believe are changing the industry, and have little to no support.

3. Making a one-time donation to each project so the maintainer can actually enjoy it.

Evil MartiansMar 18
imgproxyMar 18
Loved this episode with @jayroh on maintainability & predictability.
And yes — it’s imgproxy, not ImageProxy 😉
Great example of how to migrate safely with adapters + feature flags instead of risky rewrites: https://buff.ly/oisS8Ng
Joel Oliveira: Predictability Is a Maintainability Feature

Predictability might be the most underrated feature of maintainable software. Joel Oliveira joins Robby to explore how thoughtful patterns, small refactors, and a bit of stubborn persistence can keep systems healthy long after their first release.

Maintainable Software Podcast
Evil MartiansMar 18
Andrey SitnikMar 18

Nano Stores seems to be my fastest-growing open source project right now.

10x growth over the past year!

https://github.com/nanostores/nanostores

Evil MartiansMar 17

@sitnik_en is our frontend principal and the creator of PostCSS, Nano Stores, and Autoprefixer.

His interview with Dan Nicu is now live on YouTube. They chatted about Andrey's career, the story of how he created popular open source tools, and his thoughts on AI and open source.

Watch it here: https://evilmartians.com/events/senor-developer-sitnik

CSS Tooling, Plugin Ecosystems & Open Source Values at Scale with Andrey Sitnik (Author of PostCSS) by Evil Martians

What happens when one developer's tools account for 0.7% of all NPM downloads? In this episode, Andrey Sitnik, creator of PostCSS, Autoprefixer, and Browserlist, and lead engineer at Evil Martians, shares the full story behind the CSS tools that millions of developers depend on every day.

evilmartians.com
Evil MartiansFeb 18
imgproxyFeb 18
imgproxy v4 is almost here.
We’re looking for teams ready to test v4 before the public release and share feedback. So we’re opening early access for the Pro version.
https://imgproxy.net/v4-early-access/
v4 Early Access | imgproxy: fast and secure on-the-fly image processing

Join the early access program for imgproxy Pro v4 and be the first to experience our latest features and improvements

Evil MartiansFeb 13

We're still looking for a frontend engineer to work on @sitnik_en's team.

We're a fully remote team with 20 years of async work experience that offers:

- 34-39 days off
- The possibility of relocating to Lisbon (not mandatory)
- $80K – $113K gross annual salary

You don’t need tens of years of experience. We'd love to chat, if you:

- Know JS and CSS
- Have worked in English
- Have experience working in startups or as a consultant

Requirements and how to apply here: https://evilmartians.com/careers/frontend-engineer