Mara Averick

@dataandme.bsky.social

open-source 🥑 dev advocate @quansight.com 💻 on @stdlib.io fmr: @rstudio, 🏀 hoop head, data-viz lover, gnashgab, blatherskite, doggos, horses

Big ups to @posit.co and whoever’s in charge of quarto-stuff these days (I truly know not 😬). An email warning re. URLs expiring December **2031** gives me much more credit for life plans than I’ve ever earned! 🍻 Cheers for the faith!

Not every open-source project wants more contributors right now, and that's fine. Four shapes maintainers run — walled castle, clique, university, hippie commune — and your `CONTRIBUTING.md` is saying the quiet part out loud. No wrong answer, just an honest one. blog.stdlib.io/do-you-want-...

Do you WANT contributors?

Four ways to run an open-source project—castle, clique, university, commune—and which one you're really running.

blog.stdlib.io

For years, open source communities relied on visible friction: people got stuck, asked questions in public, and became part of a community. AI is changing that. What happens when newcomers are no longer visible—and neither side knows the other is there? blog.stdlib.io/ai-and-the-i...

What We're No Longer Seeing: AI and the Invisible Newcomer in Open Source

How AI is absorbing the visible friction that open-source communities have always relied on to see—and welcome—newcomers.

blog.stdlib.io