Andrew Nesbitt

Fun satire blog post coming tomorrow, and by fun I mean way to close to the bone that it could almost be true 😬

Looking at both totals:
GHS: $100M in 7 years (~$14M/yr). OSC: $42M in 9 years (~$4.7M/yr)
~$20M/yr combined = payroll of one mid-size software company, for the whole ecosystem
$100M across 70k maintainers = ~$1,400 each, lifetime
Corporate share: ~$5-6M/yr, from every company in the world combined

Similar looking data for Open Source Collective:

- $41.9M in total contributions to OSS collectives
- 1.8% ($763k) flows collective-to-collective at all
- 0.17% ($69,647) is in an actual loop
- The loops are dependency funding: eslint/jest/vite/webdriverio/verdaccio/11ty, parcel/rspack/swc

So on both platforms, 98%+ of open source funding is net new money in, not recirculation

@robin @igalia congrats! As always, let me know if you need any dependency data 😉

Ever wondered how much circular funding there is within GitHub Sponsors?

Active Mutual Pairs: 155
Total Mutual Pairs: 845
Accounts Sponsoring Each Other: 255
Sponsorship Triangles: 42
Sponsorship Clusters: 26
Largest Cluster: 27 accounts

https://sponsors.ecosyste.ms/reciprocity

@wolf480pl you and i have very different experiences of the javascript world then

@wolf480pl please refrain from training JavaScript, it already knows too much

You can replace "LLM" with "JavaScript" in https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html and it all still makes perfect sense.

Ongoing slowness with packages.ecosyste.ms today due to some migrations taking longer than expected, a few more hours i think.

Patch release of git-pkgs is out, mostly to keep @mikemcquaid happy: https://github.com/git-pkgs/git-pkgs/releases/tag/v0.18.1

The code and data for this post is over here: https://github.com/andrew/package-name-prefixes

Package Name Prefixes

https://nesbitt.io/2026/07/23/package-name-prefixes.html

Someone posted my blog to HN and replaced the –– with an em-dash 🥲 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48991882

Upgrading packages.ecosyste.ms to postgres 18, may be down for a few mins.