Unfortunately, maintaining open source projects can…
Unfortunately, maintaining open source projects can be a total drain. Daniel Bachhuber offers his condolences if you do so, like him.
Unfortunately, maintaining open source projects can be a total drain. Daniel Bachhuber offers his condolences if you do so, like him.
The lead stories this week include GiveWP‘s acquisition by Liquid Web and increasing concerns over the “bus factor” in open source projects. Thankfully WP-CLI has a major release coming up this next week, but the sustainability of this vital project was jeopardized in 2020. Finally, the future of WordPress themes with Full Site Editing made…
I found Eric Holscher thoughts on funding open source with marketing money to be insightful. Eric is involved in Read The Docs, a community supported site that hosts documentation for projects, and he relates how he is building an advertising platform that is, “ethical and open source.”
WebPageTest is an open source performance testing tool, maintained primarily by Google. Developers can use to extract vital information you can use to optimize the performance of a site. A well-written article on CSS-Tricks from Eduardo BouÇas shows how you can its RESTful API (although it’s public use is limited).
Expression Engine 7 and 7.1 were recently released along with pricing changes for the Pro+ versions — the core product remains free. This marks a new phase in EE’s development as an open source project that has passed through several hands without seeing a lot of development until being taken over by Packet Tide, the…
Automattic announced that all Simple note clients (iOS, Android, and macOS Apps) are now open source under the GPLv2 license. As you might recall, Simplenote was acquired by Automattic in 2013. I’m a big fan of Simplenote and use it every day. I hope that open sourcing it proves beneficial for the product.
Quill is a free, open source WYSIWYG editor that has just reached version 1.0, though it’s been public for two years. I was doing research recently and Quill was a top contender in the realm of open source editors. What attracts me to Quill is it’s ease of use and it’s extensive API. It’s latest features…