Richard Littauer

OSS Maintenance as a Service: Helping maintainers maintain their code

Open source code is awesome, glorious, and lots of fun. We're told again and again in hackathons, meetups, coffee chats, NodeSchools, Hacker News posts, and Twitter threads that we should all contribute to open…

How To Deprecate A Repository on GitHub

Once, you had a shining, beautiful repo, full of hope and joy. But now you need to state cleanly and clearly that a repository is no longer going to be maintained, isn’t going to be looked at, and should no longer be of interest to anyone. It is kept for…

Getting Hugo running on Netlify

Running Hugo on Netlify is satisfyingly great. You can get a static website running with almost no operating costs (unless you’re at major scale), and you’re also able to quickly deploy by pushing to GitHub, as well as getting SSL through LetsEncrypt automatically at the…

Getting Online At Cafes That Need To Redirect You

You’re at a new cafe. You haven’t signed onto the wifi before, so you ask the barista what the password is.

“Oh, no password. Just “HipsterCafeWIFI”. It’s open.”