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Vlad-Stefan Harbuz

@vlad.website.bsky.social

→ https://vlad.website Researcher working on software & philosophy that contributes to the public good. ❄ Building @opensourcepledge.com, endowment.dev ❄ Philosophy PhD researcher: ethics & epistemology of Open Source ❄ In Edinburgh ❄ Love cats + birds

270 Followers  |  176 Following  |  119 Posts  |  Joined: 19.08.2023
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daniel: "I don't think we need 10x developers to build great things. I think we need 10x teams – groups of people who care about the same problem, who iterate together, and who make each other better" 🤍

04.03.2026 17:40 — 👍 70    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 2
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T-minus two weeks until Taiwan: Rail Rush

04.03.2026 15:30 — 👍 171    🔁 36    💬 4    📌 22

More npmx goodness. The word kindness comes up repeatedly in that community. It's a core value. Once again, it's so life affirming to be celebrating kindness in a tech community.

Rather than the grind, or the hustle, or the 996, or the yngmi.

Building in a state of grace.

Thanks @danielroe.dev

03.03.2026 22:43 — 👍 17    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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npmx: A Lesson in Open Source's Collaboration Feedback Loops | Open Source Pledge npmx's success is reminding us why Open Source is such a special social phenomenon.

Congratulations to the @npmx.dev team on their launch day! 🎉❤️

Here's @vlad.website on how npmx's success shows us why Open Source collaboration itself is so special.

03.03.2026 12:50 — 👍 27    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Announcing npmx: a fast, modern browser for the npm registry Today we're releasing the alpha of npmx.dev – a fast, modern browser for the npm registry, built in the open by a growing community.

npmx is now in alpha: this is our story, as told by our team and friends

03.03.2026 12:23 — 👍 355    🔁 127    💬 17    📌 34

thank you for reading, friends! :) I hope Google can join the @opensourcepledge.com one day

27.02.2026 21:37 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

OSS maintainers, if a company sent you a chunk of cash, what would you spend it on? @patak.cat spent it on infra helping him continue his Open Source adventures. Would you buy tools you need? Or use it to take care of your physical/mental health? Tell us, so we can make the best case to companies✨️

27.02.2026 08:43 — 👍 26    🔁 3    💬 6    📌 0

Peony Software, 86-90 Paul Street, EC2A 4NE, London, UK

26.02.2026 23:40 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@chadwhitacre.com IANAL but this seems plausibly compatible with the Open Source Definition…? 🤔

26.02.2026 23:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

perfect ❤

26.02.2026 19:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

thanks for the support! 😊

26.02.2026 17:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Open Source Endowment — World's First Endowment Fund for OSS The Open Source Endowment provides truly sustainable funding for critical open source software through a community-driven endowment model.

I'm one of the early "members" of the Open Source Endowment. Eager to see where this is going:

"Truly sustainable funding for critical OSS through a community‑driven endowment"

https://endowment.dev/

26.02.2026 16:38 — 👍 15    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 1
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A VC and some big-name programmers are trying to solve open source's funding problem, permanently | TechCrunch A group of well-known open source programmers and a VC have launched the Open Source Endowment. They hope this new method will provide funding for good.

We just launched the Open Source Endowment, the first endowment dedicated to supporting Open Source maintainers, with $693,000 raised already.

The world depends on Open Source, but making our ecosystem sustainable is a complex task. I hope that, with community consultation, the Endowment can help 🙏

26.02.2026 16:22 — 👍 61    🔁 19    💬 4    📌 5

as @mirandaheath.website said "it is time to recognize the humans behind open source". every maintainer burnouts eventually. everyone need to understand, fast, that the current state is unsustainable. but change will only come from between our lines. we'll need to change the game ourselves.

24.02.2026 19:37 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

I always knew he was a cat…

26.02.2026 10:25 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I saw your stream, and the project really did look giant, good luck! ❤️

25.02.2026 00:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I'm excited to see Bluesky take more steps towards decentralisation, so we can reduce our dependency on centralised (usually corporate) power.

I just migrated the account I'm posting from to a small European community server (@npmx.dev) 🎉

It was easy thanks to @baileytownsend.dev & @patak.dev ❤️

24.02.2026 12:49 — 👍 26    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 2
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Spitting Out the Agentic Kool-Aid Tasting the future of invasive AI agents roused me to pursue a different direction.

“I dove into Claude Code. I spent three 12+ hour days with it. I was intoxicated. My family was weirded out. Something felt off. (...) [I] ran as far away as I could to clear my head, through a deadly snowstorm to visit an old Amish friend.”

19.02.2026 21:32 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
A very long punchcard on a spool, attached to a wool weaving machine.

A very long punchcard on a spool, attached to a wool weaving machine.

My OP shows a machine used to create punchcards to be used with wool weaving machines, from Luxembourg's Öewersauer Cloth Factory Museum.

www.naturpark-sure.lu/en/offer/mus...

Here is a better look at one of the punchcards.

19.02.2026 15:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
An old machine used to create punchcards to be used with wool weaving machines. It has a peculiar 50-key keyboard, and a very long punchcard is emerging from it.

An old machine used to create punchcards to be used with wool weaving machines. It has a peculiar 50-key keyboard, and a very long punchcard is emerging from it.

thinking of switching from vim to this

19.02.2026 15:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I just opened my first PR on @npmx.dev! I've been wanting to get started in OSS for a long time but I always felt too intimidated. Today I finally made the jump after seeing an issue that I thought I could tackle, and now, I honestly can't wait to contribute more, and in other projects too!

17.02.2026 18:17 — 👍 63    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 1

The people who think LLMs can do this work mistake the output for the process. They think that to write a paper is to produce a document: if the document is produced then the research must have been done.

16.02.2026 09:56 — 👍 22    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Like - the public good. We have people actually talking about, and working toward, the public good. Super cringe. I am so fucking here for it.

14.02.2026 17:41 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

@danielroe.dev @patak.dev I've been looking into starting a UK foundation dedicated to Open Source sustainability research. @andrewnez.bsky.social is on board too. Would love to talk to youse about this, too ☺️

14.02.2026 16:12 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

@danielroe.dev I was just about to ask if you wanted to get lunch sometime! Miranda and I are free starting Wednesday, feel free to DM me when you're free ☺️

14.02.2026 14:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@chadwhitacre.com come hang out with us~

14.02.2026 10:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

hehe sounds good to me! just let me know when you're back and I'll make time ❤

14.02.2026 10:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

me 😊

14.02.2026 10:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

🥺❤️

13.02.2026 23:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0