topic: open-source software

Everything I’ve written on the subject, from the beginning of this version of the site.

I may also have written on this on earlier versions of my website:

(The even-earlier versions of the site existed… but are not relevant here.)

2019
- Nov
  - 17
    - Relaunch!—JOURNAL
      
      A new website design and implementation for 2020 and beyond—with a new title to boot!
2020
- Aug
  - 03
    - Humans of Open Source↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE
      
      Chatting with Sean Chen about open source, Christian humanism, and working in public.
2022
- May
  - 19
    - Whiskey, Web, and Whatnot: Bringing Types to Ember ↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE
      
      Chatting with the good folks at ShipShape about TypeScript, Ember, composing, whiskey, and more.
- Jul
  - 04
    - Rustacean Station: New Rustacean with Chris Krycho ↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE
      
      Chatting about Rust, LinkedIn, and WebAssembly—and my past, present, and possible future with podcasting!
- Sep
  - 01
    - Open Source—JOURNAL
      
      Notes on the sheer scale of recently-completed open source efforts of mine.
- Dec
  - 16
    - Wacky Tricks We Use in Publishing TypeScript Types (for Ember.js)↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE
      
      A walkthrough of the shenanigans we have to do to make TypeScript understand how to import @ember packages from ember-source.
2023
- Feb
  - 25
    - Fork Software More—JOURNAL
      
      Not everything needs to be centralized and standardized.
- Jun
  - 23
    - On Ember’s New Major Version Cadence—JOURNAL
      
      Not just how this one specific process for one JavaScript framework is changing, but why—and why I hope it will be useful to other projects as well!
- Aug
  - 26
    - Unmeasurable Costs and Benefits—JOURNAL
      
      One major reason standard advice about “demonstrating value (or impact)” does not work well for foundational software, including (but not only) open-source library code.
- Sep
  - 06
    - Software Unscripted: Type System Complexity ↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE
      
      Along with Rust, TypeScript, SemVer, open source ecosystems and maintenance, and more!
2024
- Sep
  - 11
    - Time—JOURNAL
      
      Reckoning with my schedule.
- Dec
  - 03
    - True Myth 8.1.0—ELSEWHERE
      
      Adding some test helpers!
  - 06
    - The Blue Oak Model License—NOTES
      
      If you’re looking for a permissive license, this is a good one!
  - 30
    - Announcement: LambdaConf 2025 Keynote—ELSEWHERE
      
      Infrastructure, Common Goods, and the Future of Open Source Software
2025
- Jan
  - 02
    - True Myth v8.2.0—Now With a Task Type!—ELSEWHERE
      
      Literally seven years in the making. But it happened!
  - 09
    - True Myth v8.3.0—ELSEWHERE
      
      Lots of async combinators, a new Result helper… and some deprecations.
  - 11
    - True Myth v8.4.0—ELSEWHERE
      
      Probably the last 8.x release: Task is feature complete!
- Apr
  - 15
    - True Myth Releases: 8.6, 9.0, and a New Docs Site!—ELSEWHERE
      
      Continuing the year of shipping with more True Myth goodies.
- May
  - 13
    - Infrastructure, Common Goods, and the Future of Open Source Software—ELSEWHERE
      
      My LambdaConf 2025 Opening Keynote
- Jul
  - 31
    - true-myth-zod v0.1.2—ELSEWHERE
      
      AKA the first version that actually works.
- Aug
  - 24
    - True Myth 9.1.0: Standard Schema and More!—ELSEWHERE
      
      Doing my best to keep making True Myth more useful in more places.

That’s it for this topic… but there are many, many more!

2019

Nov

17

Relaunch!—JOURNAL

2020

Aug

03

Humans of Open Source↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE

2022

May

19

Whiskey, Web, and Whatnot: Bringing Types to Ember ↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE

Jul

04

Rustacean Station: New Rustacean with Chris Krycho ↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE

Sep

01

Open Source—JOURNAL

Dec

16

Wacky Tricks We Use in Publishing TypeScript Types (for Ember.js)↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE

2023

Feb

25

Fork Software More—JOURNAL

Jun

23

On Ember’s New Major Version Cadence—JOURNAL

Aug

26

Unmeasurable Costs and Benefits—JOURNAL

Sep

06

Software Unscripted: Type System Complexity ↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE

2024

Sep

11

Time—JOURNAL

Dec

03

True Myth 8.1.0—ELSEWHERE

06

The Blue Oak Model License—NOTES

30

Announcement: LambdaConf 2025 Keynote—ELSEWHERE

2025

Jan

02

True Myth v8.2.0—Now With a Task Type!—ELSEWHERE

09

True Myth v8.3.0—ELSEWHERE

11

True Myth v8.4.0—ELSEWHERE

Apr

15

True Myth Releases: 8.6, 9.0, and a New Docs Site!—ELSEWHERE

May

13

Infrastructure, Common Goods, and the Future of Open Source Software—ELSEWHERE

Jul

31

true-myth-zod v0.1.2—ELSEWHERE

Aug

24

True Myth 9.1.0: Standard Schema and More!—ELSEWHERE

True Myth v8.2.0—Now With a `Task` Type!—ELSEWHERE