| website | https://vlad.website |
| projects | https://opensourcepledge.com; https://endowment.dev |
| research | Philosophy PhD researcher: ethics & epistemology of Open Source; https://ideology.group |
If you're part of the open source movement, or even just interested in it, you might want to watch this impressive documentary by @chadwhitacre.com.
It was partly filmed in Ukraine and covers some of the war's consequences, but it isn't about the war.
If you don't know Chad, I think it says a lot that he entered a war zone for a documentary about open source.
After more than 10 years, @jazzband is sunsetting.
I started it in 2015 because maintaining Open Source alone was exhausting. The idea was simple: shared access, shared responsibility. It's been an honor to watch it grow: 3,135 members, 84 projects, and a lot of code shipped together.
https://jazzband.co/news/2026/03/14/sunsetting-jazzband
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“In Open Source, what looks like fairness often is not. Free for everyone sounds equitable, but the cost does not disappear. It is absorbed by those who can least afford it, while the organizations that benefit most often pay the least.”
https://dri.es/open-source-infrastructure-deserves-a-business-model
Congratulations to the npmx.dex team on their launch day 🎉❤️
Here's @vlad on how npmx's success shows us why Open Source collaboration itself is so special.
https://opensourcepledge.com/blog/npmx-a-lesson-in-open-source-collaboration-feedback-loops/
We just launched the Open Source Endowment, the first ever endowment dedicated to supporting Open Source maintainers, with $693,000 raised already.
The world depends on Open Source, but making our ecosystem sustainable is a complex task. I hope that, with community consultation, the Endowment can help. 🙏
Respecting maintainer time should be in security policies. Even better: you don't even have to mention the elephant in the room!
https://sethmlarson.dev/respecting-maintainer-time-should-be-in-security-policies
“I dove into Claude Code. I spent three 12+ hour days with it. I was intoxicated. My family was weirded out. Something felt off. (...) [I] ran as far away as I could to clear my head, through a deadly snowstorm to visit an old Amish friend.”
(#ai)
https://openpath.quest/2026/spitting-out-the-agentic-kool-aid/
Charly Coste 🇫🇷
Jannis Leidel
Open Source Pledge
Mitchell Hashimoto
Seth Larson
Chris Heilmann