Published inOctoboxLooking for a frontend Rails developer for limited consulting engagementTLDR: Octobox.io is looking for a front end developer to update our UI to use GitHub’s Primer design system. If you are comfortable…Oct 8, 2024Oct 8, 2024
Published inOctoboxOctobox is supporting its dependenciesIn October 2018 Andrew and I began an experiment in open source sustainability. Today we’re drawing a line under that experiment with one…May 12, 2021May 12, 2021
Published inOctoboxOctobox.io is paying it forwardLast time we sent out an update we were rolling out comment threads on Octobox.io. Today we’re adding support for reviews and reviews…Jul 10, 2019Jul 10, 2019
Published inOctoboxPermission To WriteTLDR: We’re adding issue:write access to Octobox so that you can comment on issues and pull requests from Octobox.io (or your own…Feb 26, 2019Feb 26, 2019
Published inOctoboxWalking The Tightrope: Charging For Private Repo’s On Octobox.ioTDLR: If you currently use Octobox.io to manage notifications on private repositories then — from Monday — you will need to pay $10/month…Jan 25, 2019A response icon2Jan 25, 2019A response icon2
Published inOctoboxOctobox.io: taming those garden fairiesThis article first appeared on Open Collective, it has been re-published here with the permission of Pia and the Open Collective team:Jan 7, 2019Jan 7, 2019
Published inOctoboxGoodbye Tidelift, Hello OctoboxOn October 6th 2017 Andrew Nesbitt and myself joined Tidelift, a new company that was formed in May that year. Twelve months later we’re…Oct 12, 2018Oct 12, 2018
No more ‘because user needs’I’ve been developing digital products for my entire adult life. I didn’t even know I was doing it to begin with. It took alpha-gov and…Oct 5, 2018Oct 5, 2018
Published inLibraries.ioLibraries.io is joining TideliftIn my last two posts I rejected the notion that open source projects are a public good. I then identified some of the challenges that open…Nov 14, 2017Nov 14, 2017
Sustaining Open Source SoftwareIn my last post, I rebutted the dangerous thought that in economic terms an open source project is a ‘public good’.Oct 2, 2017Oct 2, 2017