I'll be honest, the honeymoon phase of writing this weekly newsletter is starting to fade. It's kind of like the image below initially created by Paul Graham of Y Combinator. I've passed "Reality Check" and now in "Lack of Traction," which is discouraging but being this isn't my first rodeo, over time, the newsletters will improve, be less self-aggrandizing, heck maybe even have guest writers. Always open to feedback, just respond to this email.

Articles

The engagement traps of modern-day communities

"To keep pulling people in, we want to focus on creating value, not noise."

Can we trust Microsoft with Open Source?

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We Just Gave $154,999.89 to Open Source Maintainers

"Sentry is an open source company. We started in 2008 as a small open source side project, and we grew within the community for years…"

Podcasts

Chad Whitacre

We interviewed Chad Whitacre, one of the co-founders of Sustain and a developer at Sentry.io, who announced that they're donating $150k+ to their open source dependencies!

From Disney to AWS with Justin Garrison

Justin Garrison is a Developer Advocate at Amazon. He also worked at Disney Animation and Disney Streaming Services, and we found out what he did there before going to Amazon.