Scott Chacon writes up his insider take on GitHub's success, Sentry wants other companies to take the Open Source Pledge, Benj Edwards used AI to reproduce his late father's handwriting, Dave Kiss explains the current hype that PHP is getting & Taylor Otwell raises $57 million series A from Accel.
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What up, nerds? I'm Jared, and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, September 16th, 2024. A dear friend of mine fell prey to a post-acquisition layoff alongside about 30% of the company, and he's looking for work. He's a super solid network engineer who taught me a bunch with decades of experience. I'll take any leads you might have. Please hit me up.
Okay, let's get into this week's news. Why GitHub actually won. Scott Chacon writes up his insider's take on why GitHub became the de facto code collaboration site. Here's the quick version. Quote, I can boil it down to exactly two reasons that happen to resonate with each other at the perfect frequency. One, GitHub started at the right time. Two, GitHub had good taste.
I think both of these ventures had good taste and great product, but it wasn't the right place, or time, or market, or whatever, for them to become GitHub-level." Here's Scott again. Everyone else tried to build what they thought they could sell to advertisers or CTOs. End quote. This DevEx-focused strategy is commonplace today, but it was avant-garde back in 2008.
Definitely read Scott's entire post for the full history lesson on what developer tooling looked like back when GitHub entered the scene. The open source pledge. Chad Whitaker and our longtime sponsors slash friends at Sentry have been leading the way on corporate open source support for a while. Now they've created a pledge for other orgs to join them in putting their money where their source is.
Quote, whether you're a CEO, CFO, CTO, or just a dev, your company surely depends on open source software. It's time to pay the maintainers. Our companies feast at the open source table year after year. Through the open source pledge, we pay the maintainers of the software that we consume.
This prevents the maintainer burnout that flares up in high-profile security incidents such as XZ, Log4J, and Heartbleed, end quote. Send this link to decision makers in your org and join the growing list of member companies who have taken the open source pledge. My dead father is writing me notes again. File this one under AI. Things are getting weird.
Benj Edwards used an image synthesis model to reproduce his late father's handwriting. He fed it a bunch of journals his dad left behind and now part of him will live on in a dynamic way that was impossible a decade ago. I have a feeling this is just the beginning of a trend that will end with people recreating their dead loved ones almost entirely. Benj's thoughts after accomplishing this goal?
The results astounded me and raised deep questions about ethics, the authenticity of media artifacts, and the personal meaning behind handwriting itself. It's now time for Sponsored News. WarpStream lets you bring your own cloud. WarpStream's BYOC deployment model for Kafka-compatible data streaming gives you the best of both worlds between self-hosted and cloud.
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