July 18, 2026 security
Twice in the past year, installing an update from the Arch User Repository (AUR) could have handed your machine to somebody else. In July 2025, three fake browser packages were uploaded which...
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September 10, 2025 open-source
Being a maintainer in the age of AI.¶ Ralf Gommers wrote a really nice blog post around 6 years ago about the cost of an open source contribution , where he talks about what happens when a...
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May 06, 2021 work-culture
Image on: https://blog.1password.com/remote-work-tips/ Remote Work¶ I’ve been working mostly remotely / from home for the past couple of years. I’ve worked in teams and with people whom I’ve never...
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February 19, 2021 open-source
Image by: opensource.com This post is about how a team or project can benefit from engaging with open source communities related to that project. There are countless, much better, and incredible...
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May 28, 2020 open-source
The idea behind this post is not to show how to install the tools you need, or to list a bunch of [at a first glance seemingly random] git commands. There are enough tutorials and blog posts...
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April 12, 2020 open-source
(Since I don’t know individuals’ pronouns involved in this post, they/them is used instead.) This post was triggered by three of PyTest maintainers leaving the project in a single day. That’s 3...
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This was my first FOSDEM, which has been happening in Brussels every year for the past 20 years! It’s kind of a mostly talk based hacker space with no registration required for the attendees. This...
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January 15, 2020 ethics
This is a repost of what I posted on twitter. At NeurIPS @celestekidd gave a keynote on how people form their beliefs. It was amazing, and had two plot twists which made the audience stand and...
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June 25, 2019 open-source
Almost a year ago, after being the co-speaker of a “My first open source contribution” talk at PyData Berlin 2018, I myself became very motivated and started actively contributing to the...
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October 27, 2018 open-source
Writing code is not the only way you can contribute to an open source project. Like any other project, there are many tasks which are not programming, but are required to push the project forward,...
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