What you’ll get here:
- OSS adoption patterns (aggregate)
- registry/distribution lessons
- practical analytics + GTM tips
- the occasional spicy take
If you build OSS, you’re my people.
Some of you are literally still downloading old, vulnerable versions of Log4j.
Static scanning won’t always catch what your engineers, CI systems, legacy scripts, or AI agents are pulling down right now.
Dependency Radar gives companies a live feed of their OSS downloads.
We just published our newest changelog. Highlights this week: a new Usage & Billing experience for usage-based plans, self-serve Starter and Basic checkout, clearer export/admin guidance, and better dashboard metric tooltips. Full details:
We open sourced our ClickHouse client for Haskell today. It speaks the native protocol, supports streaming, and came out of real production needs. If you're doing analytics or event-heavy work in Haskell, this should save you some pain.
A healthy OSS project can have both growth and migration trouble at the same time. New users keep arriving, but existing users stall on old majors. If you only track top-line adoption, you can miss the friction hiding underneath.