We're super excited to tell you about our first Nock Maintainathon. Also, this post announces our next one, as part of #OpenSourceFriday, this Friday the 18th from noon to four, where we'll focus on improving our code coverage. Keep reading for details The First Maintainathon Last month, Gregor and I tried a new…

Nock is a the premier http mocking tool for Node.js developers. But it's development is dead in the water at the moment. Our question, as maintainers, is this: Can we use a semi-sync online hackathon as a way to inject some life into a project? …

My friend Watson recently tweeted this: I see this sentiment often; open source maintainers feeling bad that they’re not responding to contributors to their code fast enough. There’s an implicit assumption in open source right now: If you open source it, you are responsible for maintaining it. If someone…

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. …

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 push of a button. All…

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 source, as much as we can. So, we start a GitHub account. We begin putting code…

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.” Great. So, you open your laptop, and connect to the network. You refresh gmail. Nothing happens. You refresh Facebook. Nothing. …

After the Game of Thrones episode, we sat in a mild stupor for a few minutes. Another character we liked was dead. It was 9:00 at night; we had been watching Game of Thrones over dinner, and then moved to the couch to finish the episode. …

I keep todo lists. Sometimes by hand, sometimes on my computer. For the past six months, I've been organizing them on my computer, in a simple folder called log, with a file for each day I decide to have a to do list. Yesterday, I realized that my shell script…