What the Bliss Taught Us

4 hours ago

Curl took a month-long break from vulnerability reporting (Summer of Bliss 2026) with zero reports received.
Maintainers felt immediate relief, re-energization, and were able to focus on feature requests and code improvements.
CNA rules were managed without incidents, and paying customers were unaffected.
The open source community responded positively, with several projects following the example.
Post-break, the team is handling a backlog of issues and pull requests, and no major security incidents have occurred.
The maintainers plan to repeat the break in the future.

Eight new subsystem maintainers have been promoted for the Ghostty project, marking the first such promotions since its creation.
The project follows a subsystem maintainer model, where experts oversee specific areas like terminal emulation, Linux/GTK, fonts, rendering, and shell integration.
All new maintainers were part of the private beta and have contributed significantly over months or years.

Homebrew maintainers are motivated by fun, not money, which prevents burnout.
The scarcest resource in open source is maintainer motivation, not funding.
Social events like conferences re-energize maintainers and build friendships across projects.

Time away6 days ago

Took over eight weeks off as a solo founder, with customers barely noticing.
Learned from earlier experiences: with first two kids felt pressure to return early; with third felt true choice.
Prepared business by removing himself from loops: made support self-serve, eliminated non-scalable dependencies, hired out operations, cleared distractions.

Your dog truly loves you, not just because of evolution.
Sexual reproduction creates genetic variance, allowing life to persist despite entropy.
Curing the common cold is theoretically possible but currently too annoying to pursue.

Too many AI agents can clash; for enterprise agents, less is more.
Chinese models GLM and Kimi can impersonate Claude, hinting at distillation.
Shopify returns to clean code because agents favor readability, explicit contracts, and feedback.

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