Vlad Miricioiu

Yet another OSS maintainer quits because of burnout.

npmx launched today, and witnessing its incredible development journey has taught me a lot about what I’m calling the collaboration feedback loops of successful Open Source projects — patterns where every contribution to a project makes future contributio…

We need better tools for uncovering phantom binary dependencies.

Have you ever wondered how it’s possible to call C code from other languages like Python?

Adam Wathan, the creator of Tailwind CSS, has been speaking about how LLMs have made his project more popular than ever…while also making it fall apart financially, causing him to fire 75% of his engineers.

96% of all companies depend on Open Source software.

In October 2024, it emerged that WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg has extensive power over the entire WordPress ecosystem, which 43% of all websites on the internet run on.

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We recently launched the Open Source Pledge, and the response has been very positive, particularly from developers, but also from foundations, companies and the press.

When I lived in London, my flat was at the corner of a generally quiet intersection.

Today, we launched the Open Source Pledge.

The ability to vote in parliamentary elections should be granted based on long-term integration into one’s community and country, yet we unjustly deny many people this right simply because of the place they were born in, leaving them with no say in polici…

There are bad apologies, and good apologies.

Postcodes in the UK are pretty specific — a postcode such as “SE1 6AD” will often identify one or a few specific buildings, unlike countries where a postcode represents an entire neighbourhood.

Yggdrasil allows you to easily set up a private virtual network based on IPv6.

Tiny Code Christmas is a fun Christmas-themed coding challenge.

Communicating with other people is an activity that permeates almost all aspects of our lives.

Sometimes, you want to add some code to test something out, but you definitely want to make sure you don’t git commit it.

Book recommendations on the topic of work.

I live in London now, and on the 18th and 19th of July this year, the UK saw its highest recorded temperatures ever.

Lately, I’ve been working on a spreadsheet program.

Hare is a systems programming language, which means it’s useful for building video games, operating systems, real-time audio applications and other high-performance software.

This is a short article on how to easily dither images if you’re looking for nice retro aesthetics using simple Unix commandline tools.

An essay about ways to structure work.

I’ve been learning Japanese for many years, and I often make lists for people to recommend specific resources for learning the language.

I’ve been in love with the technology behind video games my entire life.

When writing music, I often felt the need to look up the notes in a more complex chord, or the notes in a certain mode, and so on.

In 2019, a friend and I teamed up to make a cart reader for the Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance.

The default C string handling functions have a lot of problems.

Regular expressions are one of those tools that we kind of take for granted.

I’ve helped many people learn programming throughout the years, and I’ve noticed one thing — people increasingly struggle to understand how to build things from scratch.

In 2020, I started writing a 3D game engine from scratch in C++.

When learning German, one of the most confusing features of the language is the noun gender system.