Brian Muenzenmeyer
@brianmuenzenmeyer.com
📗 Author, @approachableopensource.com 🎪 Sneelock of the Circus 🤹 @nodejs.org website maintainer 🦆 Rough cut woodworker 🎯 OSPO at Target 👨🏻🦲 Views my own. He/Him
Node.js Interactive @ RenderATL lineup announced. QUIC in core. Built-in TypeScript in Node 26. Event loop deep dives. npm supply chain security. MCP for backends. doc-kit. Integration testing. Platform thinking. Full speaker list: https://bit.ly/3R1zbz8 Join us in Atlanta: https://bit.ly/4f7HNvY
In this episode we cover open source sustainability and the challenges of maintaining critical dependencies. @abbycabs.dev and @brianmuenzenmeyer.com join @joshuakgoldberg.com for a wide-ranging conversation. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/05/14/o...
Open Source Sustainability - Software Engineering Daily
Open source software underpins nearly every modern application, including frameworks powering the most popular websites, to the libraries securing financial backend systems. However, while open source...
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📣 Two Announcements! 1️⃣ Approachable Open Source is now free to read online! 2️⃣ US fulfillment is now $7 flat, anywhere. You basically pay shipping. `TLDR' - It's time to fully give the community to book. Completely. Totally. Like, go read it now! approachableopensource.com/read/
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Introducing 🦍Gorilla! A YouTube wrapper that give parents the ultimate control over what their kids watch. I built this for my kids, and they love it. Moreover, they watch LESS NOW. Check out out at gorilla.tube www.linkedin.com/pulse/introd... #parenting #ipadkids #youtube #indiedev
Introducing 🦍Gorilla - an app to make your own YouTube Kids - that you control.
I've been working on a YouTube wrapper for the boys. I call it Gorilla! Get it at https://gorilla.
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Bought a domain and pushed some content to it. Early analytics turned up WAY too many hits. Wayback says it hosted porn about 5 years ago. I guess availability is no longer the only concern on domain searches - you might be inheriting a WHOLE LOT of unwanted traffic.
Finally released my long-form version of Finite Source Machines: Contribution for Busy Humans from All Things Open this October. Read it at approachableopensource.com/blog/2025-op... Thanks again to @allthingsopen.bsky.social for the opportunity. #opensource #lessonsfrom500yearsago
It's Friday night, so of course I spent it opening a bug report to GitHub on their SBOM generation feature. SBOMs reference a branch, with no correlation to the sha of the current commit on the default branch. Very simple win to introduce true traceability. #FridayNightCoding #GitHub #SBOM
Gave brianmuenzenmeyer.com a facelift this week. I've leaned into this notion that I don't fit into a neat box anymore. I'm a multifaceted leader and human, at work, in life, in my relationship, etc. I keep seeing this reality in my travels, and sometimes it even hinders me.
🌐 For immediate release, from my desk to your device... 📰 Saturday News Drop! 📓 New post: Open Source Pace Layers, now live on the approachableopensource.com blog! approachableopensource.com/blog/2025-op...
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Adapting an idea and visualizing symmathesy.
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You know you have a good open source team when you can resolve a production outage from report, triage, debugging, fix, testing, through to PR merge and deployment in 57 minutes. #nodejs #opensource github.com/nodejs/nodej... github.com/nodejs/nodej...
Download page is blank · Issue #8248 · nodejs/nodejs.org
URL: https://nodejs.org/en/download Browser Name: Chrome Browser Version: 141.0.7390.108 Operating System: Windows 10, 22H2 How to reproduce the issue: Open nodejs.org website Navigate to Download ...
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Well enough. I rambled a bit because I was off script, but no one said I bombed it lol. So that's good. Now I hope we can get the folks at @github.com to put a pause on next months changes for @npmjs.bsky.social publishing. 🤞
Hahahhahahha. There are two other known typos, not intentionally. These hardware bugs are harder to patch!
Bob Evans@bizob2828.bsky.social · 10mo agoStarted approachable open source and I see what you did there mr psoterchild @brianmuenzenmeyer.com
👕I sported this tee at @allthingsopen.bsky.social the other day - and in celebration you can pick up your own copy of the #opensource stack! #community & #issues & #pullrequests & #releases & #api & #license Get yours over at approachableopensource.com
Slides for my @allthingsopen.bsky.social talk are up - Finite Source Machines: Contribution for Busy Humans! Exports are sometimes bizarre, but the gist is there and I plan to long form present it on the blog too. noti.st/brianmuenzen... #opensource #allthingsopen
Introducing 🥁🥁🥁 our JavaScriptLandia award recipients for this year! Beyond building new features, our recipients guide others, maintain essential systems, document the hard parts, and strengthen the community every step of the way. 💙 Read more about our honorees here: hubs.la/Q03NQvx10
Node.js You Don't Need a Dependency Slides for my @jsconf.bsky.social talk are up. Thanks to everyone for listening and the many great conversations after! noti.st/brianmuenzen... #nodejs #jsconf #opensource
This is tomorrow! Right behind registration. See you there! In addition: - One talk today - One talk tomorrow
Brian Muenzenmeyer@brianmuenzenmeyer.com · 10mo agoFind me next week at @allthingsopen.bsky.social in Raleigh to snag a copy of @approachableopensource.com This full-spectrum primer on the open source software landscape continues to meet the moment. If you cannot attend, check approachableopensource.com to buy a print or ebook copy. #opensource
Find me next week at @allthingsopen.bsky.social in Raleigh to snag a copy of @approachableopensource.com This full-spectrum primer on the open source software landscape continues to meet the moment. If you cannot attend, check approachableopensource.com to buy a print or ebook copy. #opensource
Community highlights ✨ - @squiggleconf.com happened! - @brianmuenzenmeyer.com shares pure TS GitHub Actions - @azraelsec.sh type branding ELI5 - @evanhahn.com don't use ts-ignore - Matt Brown explains using Node's Test Runner with TypeScript & React - Motion AI on why they're moving off of TS
Guess what!? Pure @typescriptlang.org @github.com Actions with no build process now work! I made this demo at github.com/bmuenzenmeye...
GitHub - bmuenzenmeyer/nodejs-version-logger-typescript-action: Demo and template of a TypeScript GitHub Action with no build process needed now that GH supports Node 24
Demo and template of a TypeScript GitHub Action with no build process needed now that GH supports Node 24 - bmuenzenmeyer/nodejs-version-logger-typescript-action
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Brian Muenzenmeyer@brianmuenzenmeyer.com · 2y agoIt hit me today just how ergonomic @nodejs.org is getting, especially with 22. I wrote a @github.com Action in first-party @typescriptlang.org, via --experimental-strip-types, landed by @satanacchio.bsky.social. No build process. It might not seem so, but it's a real unlock. #nodejs #typescript
I gotta appreciate the cultural overlap of #fortnite - it just showed a set of Beavis and Butthead skins to my boys and they were positively fascinated - having never seen or heard of them before.
Brian Muenzenmeyer (@brianmuenzenmeyer.com), Principal Engineer for @nodejs.org, joins us on stage to share their insights. Don't miss "Finite Source Machines: Contribution for Busy Humans" at #AllThingsOpen! 2025.allthingsopen.org/sessions/fin...
fun news! I was laid off from Twilio. going to take this weekend to chill out, and will start looking for roles next week. if you or someone you know is looking for staff/principal level Developer Advocacy, OSPO, dev infra, or similar roles pass them along! reposts from tech folks appreciated <3
@aviv.sh and I are working on an End of Life (EOL) page for @nodejs.org. Better communicating the risks of staying on out of date software is work worth doing, and helps the entire ecosystem stay safer. github.com/nodejs/nodej... #opensource #nodejs #vulnerabilities #cve
New Pride spotlight from @thisismissem.social 🌈💚 She shares how coming out and contributing to open source shaped her journey in tech. Read it here: nodejs.org/en/blog/comm...
A two-fer - I'll be at @jsconf.bsky.social too, right after @allthingsopen.bsky.social - talking about advancements in @nodejs.org making userland simpler. I hope to see you there!
JSConf@jsconf.bsky.social · last yr.🎟️ General Admission Tickets for #JSConf 2025 are NOW OPEN! 🚀 Join 500+ JavaScript pros Oct 14-16 for three days of tech, networking & adventure. events.linuxfoundation.org/jsconf-north...
