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The Bear in GitHub Copilot: Agents vs Prompts vs Skills vs Instructions

A The Bear-style analogy for Copilot agents vs instructions vs prompt files vs skills, plus practical API documentation maintenance examples.

An Open Call: Let's Fund a Maintainer-ship Program for Open Source

A global "Maintainer-ship Program" is crucial for the future of open source, as it directly addresses the overwhelming burden on current maintainers by training new ones through hands on, project focused work.

Growing Our AsyncAPI Community and Finding Funds: A Step-by-Step Strategy for Open Source Projects

If you're building an open source project with no budget and few contacts, start small: online events, free meetups, conference partnerships. This helped AsyncAPI grow a global community and find sponsors. Events aren’t just for visibility, they're for funding too.

Sustainable Funding in Open Source

I'm exploring the challenges of sustainable funding in open source, arguing that current methods like donations and grants fall short due to unpredictability and administrative burden.

Beyond Docs: Using AsyncAPI as a Config for Infrastructure

For years, API specifications like AsyncAPI and OpenAPI have been treated primarily as documentation tools—an afterthought in the development process. But what if we flipped the script?

Stop Blaming Open Source Slowness

It's Valentine's Day so stop for a moment and think about how you can share some love in open source and for once not blame it for your technical debt.

Working with AsyncAPI documents locally

What tools and local setup recommendations are out there that will make it easier to work with AsyncAPI documents

3 GenAI Predictions for 2025

These 3 predictions are based entirely on my observations and experience with GenAI over the last year.

API Summit? API Standards? Getting us all together

Get together all the communities from different API standards.

What's next - Independent Maintainer and Educator

Life of a FOSS maintainer ain't easy, but I'll keep pushing forward with determination.

Become the RAJA or RANI of Open Source

You already use open source, now it is time to secure your investment. The maintainers POV.

Open Source: Current State and Future Hopes

My views on where we are with open source after attending three different open source events organized by three completely different parties

AsyncAPI Executive Director - What does it even mean?

Let me clarify what it means that I'm an Execitive Director of AsyncAPI Initiative and let me set some goals for the future.

Creating MQTT client code generator with AsyncAPI 2.x

In this article I'm exploring how to create a code generation template. My requirements are to use AsyncAPI document and AsyncAPI Generator.

Town Square for tech is GitHub, far away from Twitter

No, this post is not about Musk. I don't care who facilitates town square as long as people that come to the square are not abused.

Is it worth using Open Source for political statements?

On 8th of January the creator of faker.js and colors.js made a pretty visible political statement at the expence of the open-source community. Was it worth it?

What I did for AsyncAPI in 2021 and what comes in 2022

I'm summarizing most critical things I managed to address in AsyncAPI in 2021 and what comes in 2022. I also share some key learnings.

Top 3 harmful incidents in open-source in 2021

I summarize 3 harmful incidents that happened in open-source world in 2021. I try to summarize them and get into some conclusions.