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THE OPEN SOURCE PROJECT MAINTAINER'S GUIDE

This post provides a guide on how not to maintain an open source project, highlighting mistakes that open source projects make that discourage contributors from helping. These mistakes include using source control mechanisms other than git, only accepting patches through email, requiring a contributor license agreement, ignoring detailed reports, and prioritizing features over bugs. Making it easier for people to contribute makes people more likely to want to contribute.

AFTER APPLE, JONY IVE IS BUILDING AN EMPIRE OF HIS OWN

This article looks at Jony Ive's work post-Apple and his plans for the future. Ive has quietly accumulated nearly $90 million worth of real estate on a single city block in San Francisco. The purchases began early in the pandemic when many tech luminaries were fleeing the city. He has turned the buildings into home bases for his projects, one for his agency's work on automotive fashion, and travel products and another for a new artificial intelligence device company he is developing with OpenAI.

THE CRYPTO BROS WHO DREAM OF CROWDFUNDING A NEW COUNTRY

Balaji Srinivasan is a serial tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist who believes that tech can do pretty much everything governments currently do, but better. His vision of a network state involves forming communities on the internet that acquire land and become physical countries with their own laws, existing alongside existing nation states and eventually replacing them altogether. These network states would allow people to choose their nationality and become citizens of the state of their choice. This article looks at the network state movement and how it plans to replace governments with companies.

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