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How an annoying Python package led Alex Clark to create Pillow

While working in a Python CMS called Plone, Alex Clark kept running into issues with its imaging library, PIL, caused by the non-standard way it was ...
Brenna Heaps
by Brenna Heaps
on August 15, 2019

Bus factor, boss factor, and the economics of disappearing maintainers

By Luis Villa on August 13, 2019
We've jokingly referred to the problem of disappearing maintainers as "bus factor" for about as far back as I can remember. In short, the idea is ...

Project Lombok core maintainer Reinier Zwitserloot shares his open source journey

By Brenna Heaps on August 8, 2019
Reinier Zwitserloot’s journey into the world of open source is a familiar one: he discovered a problem he thought he could fix, so he and his ...

react-native-camera is now part of the Tidelift Subscription

By Brenna Heaps on August 6, 2019
react-native-camera is a comprehensive camera module for React Native that supports photographs, videos, face detection, barcode scanning, and text ...

Product + Design at Tidelift

By Lauren Hanford on August 1, 2019
Designers are often tasked with delivering broad, strategic thinking on sketches, states, flows, and experiences. What does it look like to apply ...

Material-UI core maintainer Olivier Tassinari shares his open source software journey

By Brenna Heaps on July 30, 2019
Meet Material-UI core maintainer Olivier Tassinari. Olivier is a software engineer from France, and he’s a core maintainer of Material-UI, a ...

SockJS is now part of the Tidelift Subscription

By Brenna Heaps on July 25, 2019
SockJS is a browser JavaScript library that provides a WebSocket-like object. SockJS gives you a coherent, cross-browser, Javascript API which ...

The current state of two-factor authentication across package managers

By Tieg Zaharia on July 23, 2019
Recently at Tidelift we started asking our partnered maintainers (we call them “lifters”) to confirm that they have Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) ...

Let’s extend continuous integration to our open source dependencies

By Jeremy Katz on July 18, 2019
Over the past 5-10 years, the software development world has fully embraced the idea of continuous integration.

Tidelift teams up with Ruby Together to support infrastructure for every Ruby developer

By Donald Fischer on July 17, 2019
Today Tidelift and Ruby Together jointly announced an industry-first collaboration to support critical Ruby infrastructure. Through the Tidelift ...

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