Andrew Nesbitt

@sschuberth @ort happy to merge a pr

This is like the mother of all escape hatches: https://github.com/dtolnay/semver-trick

RE: https://mastodon.social/@andrewnez/116974498919761167

Omfg 😅😂🤣 🤔 😦😧😥😭😭😭

@Bubu re-reading it again this morning, I'm also pained by it

@floppy 24pr, hacktoberfest, gsoc , I saw it a lot on popular projects

Interview with a Maintainer

https://nesbitt.io/2026/07/24/interview-with-a-maintainer.html

@nemo GHS payouts show up in OC ledgers as ADDED_FUNDS from the github-sponsors account (~$4.8M all time), and the $42M only counts direct contributions, so there's no overlap. About 5% of GitHub's $100M ends up in collective budgets via OSC.

The packages.ecosyste.ms database migration is complete, but now have 1.2M jobs in the queue to chew through 😅

@fanf @bellinghman what makes me think that is the lighting given how low the sun is, plus it looks way to perfect for any uk station I’ve ever been to

@vlad I was fighting with the iOS keyboard 😅

@veganstraightedge if I’m looping through a big dataset and incrementing counters for undefined number of strings, I use the string as the key in the hash with an initial value of zero, and increment from there. Then by the end I have a hash with string keys and int values

@veganstraightedge oh I get you, I’m a fan, the only thing that would break for me is using them mechanically as autogenerated dictionaries

@veganstraightedge :"test test" is a symbol, would you just end up with some to_sym under the hood?

@fanf I don’t think it’s real

i don’t usually respond to these kinds of emails, but this one made me so fucking mad that i blacked out and regained consciousness with this in my outbox

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

Today is a big day for us! Last year, we had a family member diagnosed with cancer. It hit us hard financially and halted our work. While one of us was busy taking care of family, we decided it was best to use the time building a new version of another app. We are excited to finally release Pastebot 3!

https://tapbots.com/pastebot/

We are also hard at work on both Ivory and Phoenix. It’s tough being a small team sometimes, but we are really excited about what’s to come!

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 😉