Brian Muenzenmeyer

I wrote a small thing: pr-age-gate.

I'm almost 40, so that means it's time for me to get really into Dune.

Watch the getting started video on Gorilla.tube So, I counted.

I had the privilege to speak twice at All Things Open this year, and since it wasn't recorded I wanted to get a long-form copy out into the world.

Growing up, I played rec soccer, high school, and then more rec.

🌐 For immediate release, from my desk to your device... 📰 Saturday News Drop!

I've been an at-times a practicing and professional designer now for some 20 years.

📣 Dependencies are great!

When I started the Boy, This is hard series, I made clear that we shouldn't be too hard on ourselves.

The initial announcement for Approachable Open Source included a statement: my brief book about the open source movement!

approachable open source Approachable Open Source APPROACHABLE OPEN SOURCE It's worth repeating!

A short update on the book, for those interested!

Dropping two links here for posterity.

If you've followed updates here for the last year or so, you know that I've written a book about open source software.

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Workshop: Building and Managing an Open Source Program Office Ibrahim Haddad, Ph.D., VP Strategic Platforms, LF IbrahimAtLinux.com Criticality of Open Source OSS is market accelerant direct + indirect product enablement = upstream development enables bett…

Open Source Summit EU in Bilbao, Spain : September 18th - September 21st Keynotes State of the Foundation Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, LF "Humble, Helpful, Hopeful" 800,000 developers across all projects "The sky is always falling" - but we work through

Open Source Summit EU in Bilbao, Spain : September 18th - September 21st Keynotes Day 1 This year's hot topics: OSS is a pillar for vertical industries' digital transformation OSS and the public sector... it's complicated value of open governance open sou…

Open source software is improved as a movement when we all participate.

This week I joined the Node.js website team.

Today I attended an open source conference.

It hit me the other day that my draft wouldn't be what it is today without the generosity of many folks who believed in it, and me.

After scouring the 11ty plugins page for something similar, I thought to myself, "self, it's about time you tried writing a plugin".

If the Twitter exodus yielded any good (aside from further outing Batman as a terrible role model), it's that we should control our content and our message as if it were a resource worth preserving.

The draft is "done!"

The deeper I get into drafting, the more it feels like I am cutting onions.

I wrote a bit today between Max's birthday party drop-off and pickup.

This post is part of a series as I document my journey writing a book!

Oscar Wilde said that a cynic is a man that knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

I win all the arguments I have with other people.

For five generations there has been a Muenzenmeyer male named after their grandfather.

The right tool is the one that is fastest.

It's been easy to think of walls as bad things, given the last few years.

We found ourselves owning a Yamaha baby grand piano now for over 10 years.

The other day at work another engineering team reported a bug that should have been impossible.

We told the whole family at once about Megan expecting.

I never met my grandfather⁠—he was the perfect relative.

I never thought a box from a warehouse grocer would create typographic inspiration, but here we are.

Sundays are for RSS 🦝 — Dave Rupert (@davatron5000) February 28, 2021 After setting up my RSS feed last month, I set out to reconnect with my web design community roots.

Inspired by Dave Rupert’s post. 5-6AM I usually wake between 5 and 6AM, with healthy snoozing.

Update: Since this article was written, I've retired from active involvement in Pattern Lab.

This post is an opinion about CSS-IN-JS.

By now the news of some changes to the core team of Pattern Lab is making the rounds.

Hey there.

I've had a soft-spot for style guides, ever since seeing http://pea.rs/ at An Event Apart a couple years back.

Dave Rupert sparked a conversation today about Patternlab after some initial usage, which elicited a nice round of feedback from others.

This post refers to an old version of brianmuenzenmeyer.com, but the lesson is important.