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  When people wonder why I wrote https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/open-source-hobbyists-turf and why I am angry... I just received the OpenSource Summit schedule from a LF newsletter. And it is fascinating how much it can be all stuff from Alpha Centauri that have nothing to do with the realities of FOSS. Like, I know for who it is. I get it. But also, why do you happily pay to be misinformed if you are in a decision making position? I mean, I know why. I get it. But still, this is such a w...

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  Why I do not see a future in coding with genAI/LLM. And why I am an AI skeptic. This post has been waiting for me to polish it for a year now, but I never found the energy. So you are going to get it raw. No pass through any of the beta readers I usually do. I may do a pass later to clean it up, but I am just too tired these days to spend a lot of time on my hobby. So it may stay that way. If you want references, feel free to ask, but they should not be hard to find. https://www.softwaremaxi...

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  If you ever wonder what I mean when I keep going back to "if you want better FOSS infrastructure, fix the tools", consider the time spent on this build problem. Then compare it to the average budget of "2 to 4h per quarter" of a hobbyist maintainer. The problem is not that we have little ressources. The problem is that we spend it in useless build system and dependencies side quests. https://algassert.com/post/2603

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  @andrewnez@mastodon.social not only finite but also already the biggest constraint. I think people do not realize how much of hobbyist maintainers (which is by far the majority both in term of code volume and maintainers volume) are already far too deep into the negative in term of resources. Like none of my projects I want to work on has gotten a single commit from me in 2025. I did not have the time. And I know they are use to debug production somewhere, I need them myself, I want them to be...

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  As a maintainer of OpenSource libraries and packages, there is something that kept feeling off in the whole Software Supply Chain discourse. I think this comes down to something simple. I am not a Supplier. You can read more explanation there https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/not-a-supplier #opensource

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  @pheonix nothing can be safe. It is computing. That ship has sailed a loooooong time ago