2025-10-15

Splitting conversations splits community

Community leaders are often too quick to segment conversations into different channels, which effectively hides the activity.

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2025-10-08

Ruby Central’s lesson in how not to do it

Community-driven projects run on consensus. To make changes, you need buy-in from the core members, at a minimum.

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2025-10-01

The solution to deadlines is usually “cut scope”

Doing less work is both effective and least likely to upset your users. Fewer functional features beats more half-implemented features.

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2025-09-18

Flash sale on all Pragmatic Bookshelf titles

Use promo code flashsale at pragprog.com between 1400 UTC (10am Eastern) September 18 and 1400 UTC September 20 to save 45%

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2025-09-17

Planning ahead is the most important part of code of conduct enforcement

A pre-defined code of conduct enforcement process doesn’t make the work easy, but it reduces the strain and increases fairness.

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2025-08-28

Keynote: Improving Security Data With ORBIT

Co-presented with Eddie Knight at OpenSSF Community Day Europe 2025.

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2025-08-28

GUAC+Trustify: Building a Common Supply Chain Knowledge Graph (OpenSSF Community Day)

Co-presented with Dejan Bosanac at OpenSSF Community Day Europe 2025.

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2025-08-27

Who is a “member” of your project?

We often use the words “contributor” and “member” interchangeably in open source projects, but there are subtle differences between the two.

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2025-08-20

Duplicate bug reports and how to handle them

Duplicate bug reports waste time for everyone involved. You can reduce them by understanding the complicated dynamics.

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2025-08-13

Who should enforce the code of conduct?

There are valid reasons to involve outside experts in code of conduct enforcement, but it’s ultimately a leadership responsibility.

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