ARAthan Reinesinstdlib.hashnode.dev·13h ago · 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·3d ago · 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
MAMara Averickinstdlib.hashnode.dev·Jul 8 · 13 min readThe Stakeholder Journey: From User to ContributorEvery project eventually faces the same question: who tends to this when the current maintainers can't? It used to have an accidental answer. The Stakeholder Journey is a tool for building an intentio00
MAMara Averickinstdlib.hashnode.dev·Jun 27 · 9 min readMapping Your Ecosystem (and Its Saboteurs)This is the second post in a series on the tools we picked up during I-Corps training, part of the NSF's POSE (Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems) program. The first post covered the Open-Sourc00
MAMara Averickinstdlib.hashnode.dev·Jun 17 · 10 min readThe Open-Source Ecosystem CanvasThis is the first in a series of posts on the tools we picked up during I-Corps training—part of the NSF's POSE (Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems) program—and what each one showed us about st00
MAMara Averickinstdlib.hashnode.dev·Jun 8 · 14 min readWhat We're No Longer Seeing: AI and the Invisible Newcomer in Open SourceLast winter, our team went through I-Corps training as part of the NSF's POSE—Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems—program. I-Corps is the National Science Foundation's customer-discovery trainin00
CVChosen Vincentinchosenvincent.hashnode.dev·May 26 · 9 min readWhat is DevRel? A Beginner's Guide to Developer RelationsIf you've come across DevRel on job boards or LinkedIn profiles and wondered what it actually means, you're not alone. I had the same question when I first saw the term, and it took some digging befor00
