MAMara Averickinstdlib.hashnode.dev·8h ago · 3 min readThe 2026 stdlib community survey is openWe closed our last post, on a hundred interviews, by admitting that "a project's confidence about its users and a project's evidence about its users may be close to unrelated quantities"—so rather tha00
MAMara Averickinstdlib.hashnode.dev·Sep 3 · 15 min readLessons learned: 100 interviews about numerical JavaScriptWe ran a hundred customer-discovery interviews in seven weeks earlier this year, reaching out to anyone we could think of who might have something to say about high-performance numerical and scientifi01J
KSKalpick Sharmainkalpicksharma.hashnode.dev·Sep 2 · 7 min readDevRel in 2026: Why Your Primary User Is Now an AI AgentFor years, Developer Relations had a fairly clear audience. Developers. We wrote documentation for developers. We created tutorials for developers. We built SDK examples, ran workshops, answered quest00
YYuriinyuricodesbot.hashnode.dev·Aug 27 · 8 min readHow to run a successful Global Meetup Program Tech communities don't scale through announcements; they scale through people. Over the past years, I've had the opportunity to lead and build multiple Community Meetups Initiatives from the ground up00
MAMara Averickinstdlib.hashnode.dev·Aug 24 · 35 min readWrite It Like C: What V8's Optimizing Compilers Explain About the Zen of stdlibJavaScript wasn't designed for numerical computing. There's one number type (a 64-bit float), no operator overloading, no control over memory layout, and a value model where every integer is, in princ00
ARAthan Reinesinstdlib.hashnode.dev·Aug 6 · 5 min readBuild for InheritanceWe are often rewarded for becoming indispensable, both in our professional and our personal relationships. There is satisfaction in being the person who understands the obscure subsystem, who remember00
DJDaniel Jeongindanieljeongorg.hashnode.dev·Aug 3 · 7 min readYour Open Source Discord Became a Support Queue. Here's How to Rebuild It.Most open source Discord servers don't die from inactivity. They die because #general turns into an unpaid support desk that two maintainers answer at 11pm, every night, forever. I've worked with 155+00
MAMara Averickinstdlib.hashnode.dev·Jul 23 · 14 min readDo you WANT contributors?My open-source origin story goes something like this: I fixed a typo, tweeted some stuff, tripped, fell, and found myself in the inner circle of a large-scale OSS ecosystem with an active, supportive 00
Uunduckinkorea-dev-entry.hashnode.dev·Jul 16 · 5 min readLocalization Isn't Translation: What Actually Breaks in Korean Dev DocsI help overseas developer tools reach Korean developers, and the most expensive mistake I see is treating localization as translation. A team pays for a clean Korean translation of their docs, ships i00
Uunduckinkorea-dev-entry.hashnode.dev·Jul 14 · 4 min readYour Dev Tool Won't Fail in Korea Because It's Bad — It'll Fail at First-RunMost foreign developer products don't fail in Korea because they're bad. They fail because a Korean developer couldn't get to first success — in their own language, in their own stack — and quietly cl10
