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Head of Open Source, @getsentry ❧ Working on Open Source sustainability through @fossfunders and 💃

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New post: The Future of FOSS Foundations “With new EU legislation, Open Source foundations are growing up fast. Where are we headed?”
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I'm sorry, I don't make the rules. 🐭
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A'ight, beat that. 😤😁💃
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Getting closer! 😅
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10 years
Hey @shanley , I resent you for abusing me under the guise of "criticism."
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Getting closer! 😅
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7 months
Aiming for 97% in this org and likely similar in the other two (codecov, syntaxfm).
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💰 👀
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Soooooo yesterday was my one-year at @getsentry , and as of recently I have (yikes!) been promoted to Head of Open Source. 🙈😱🙇‍♂️ ∴ Anyone wanna help me build an OSPO? 💃 I'm hiring an Open Source Program Manager, DMs are open or chadwhitacre @sentry .io. Link soon …
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2 years
Rounding up a few "Open-source alternative to _________" SaaS companies: @glimesh — Twitch @PlausibleHQ — Google Analytics @chatwootapp — Intercom @typesense — Algolia @liberapay — Patreon What others are out there these days?
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10 months
Kicked off this year's FOSS Fund Fest with a budget meeting yesterday. Internal survey starts August 1, final blog post in late October if all goes well. Here we go! 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 ............. $𝟱𝟬𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮 ............. $𝟮𝟲𝟬,𝟬𝟮𝟴 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭 ............. $𝟭𝟱𝟰,𝟵𝟵𝟵
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2 years
Yesterday @getsentry reached a significant milestone in our Open Source story: our first BSL change date. Sentry @ ca8674c5 is now available under Apache 2.0, an @OpenSourceOrg -approved license. 💃
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Aiming for 97% in this org and likely similar in the other two (codecov, syntaxfm).
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Okay @ashtom @satyanadella , ball is in your court. It’s your own platform! You should be blowing us out of the water! Let’s get this party started for maintainers! 😁💃
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I'm sorry, I don't make the rules. 🐭
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3 years
Four months in at @getsentry , still waiting for the feeling of "work" to kick in. World-class product, stellar team, bright future—hardly believe I get to be here. 🙏 And we just raised Series D! 🦄 Hiring spree in full swing, lmk if you want a referral: .
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10 years
"Why Atom Can’t Replace Vim" tl;dr because Atom is Emacs-ish.
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7 months
Started a README for @fossfunders . The goal is “to make it weird for companies 𝘯𝘰𝘵 to support FOSS.” Let's go! 💃
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7 years
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
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5 months
“The OpenJS Foundation Cross Project Council (CPC) is the technical governing body of the OpenJS Foundation.” Welcome to @getsentry , @yagiznizipli ! Glad to deepen our relationship with @openjsf . 🙌😁💃
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@cra Early notes on . In general we aim for both breadth (this, 10%) and depth. We're just one company, though, and ~small. True impact will be in industry-wide culture change (e.g., @fossfunders ), and tax-based programs (e.g., @sovtechfund ). Let's do this!
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8 months
New post up for @getsentry about how it might be time for Open Source to, as it were, move out of our Free Software parents' basement(!): Long post, bold claim. I want to share a story here that didn't make the cut, about RMS and the Heart Coin. 🧵…
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Chad Whitacre
10 years
"Kindness and Kyriarchy," a follow-up to yesterday's open letter to Shanley: .
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10 years
Today is @Gittip 's second birthday.
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Chad Whitacre
2 years
Done. We grew 2.5x on @github from 58 to 148 “sponsorables,” and we grew our dollar volume nearly 3x from ~40k to ~120k for the year! Full report in a few weeks.
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Chad Whitacre
7 months
Cheers @BaileyPumfleet ! Great to meet up in person! 😁 Interesting to learn about @calcom ’s particular flavor of open core business model. 👍
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Chad Whitacre
2 years
Well, this seems like as a good a time as any to announce 😁💃🤖 @HeyRobbOat Robb Oat is a robot software engineer. It reads issues and opens PRs (using @OpenAI Davinci model).
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André Staltz
2 years
Pretty sure that some time around the year 2025 @github will have a system where you input what kind of changes you want, and it'll automatically produce a pull request for you that embodies what you described. Not far fetched from current GitHub Copilot.
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2 years
So great to catch up with @adamstac and @jerodsanto at @AllThingsOpen #ATO2022 #AllThingsOpen . Love yinz guys! Keep up the great work telling stories and growing the community! 🙏
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Chad Whitacre
1 year
Kinda amazed how many people can apply for a senior software engineering role on an open source team and not submit even one pull request with their application. I mean, that's pretty obviously the way to stand out, isn't it? Do you want the job?
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7 months
Okay, I guess this is gonna be an intramural contest. 🥇 @syntaxfm wins with 99% of deps funded! 🥈 @codecov is the runner up at 97%. 🥉 @getsentry takes the bronze with 95%. Well played, everyone! 👏
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7 months
A'ight, beat that. 😤😁💃
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2 years
Thank you to all of the good folks at @github @opencollect @thanks_dev @stackaid for making it easy for companies like @getsentry to support open source at scale. 🙏
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5 months
@cassidoo Heart coin hand-punched by Linus Torvalds. He was like, “Oooh, it's a little off-center.” “Hrm, you're right, better punch another one.” 😏
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If you hear from @thanks_dev about Sentry's funding program this year, it's legit, we are working with them to help us distribute funds rationally and scalably. Lmk if you have questions.
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Chad Whitacre
11 years
Gittip has deposited $42,800 in people's bank accounts over the past year. That's not nothing.
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8 years
When one of the top security researchers on the Internet compliments your tiny payments startup for having "great security, congrats." O.O
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2 years
We just reached Issue/PR/Discussion № 40,000 on @getsentry ! Congrats to @billyvg for the win. 🤘 Kinda funny that a lot of people still donʼt know weʼre an open source company. 🙃
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😊
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6 months
HN modded us in record time this year. 😭 Really irritating, ngl.
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3 years
Tap, tap, tap ... is this thing on? 🎤
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7 months
@driaug_ Yes! That’s a start. I would love to see them really go for it with GitHub Sponsors. Gotta use your own product if you expect other people to. ;-)
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Chad Whitacre
11 years
Remember the origin/pr/* hack? @gnarf has a streamlined version: . $ git pr 537 [...] Switched to branch 'pr/537'
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Chad Whitacre
5 months
Whoa. @wycats has id 4 on GitHub: That's far from the only thing he was in on early. It'll be interesting to see what the conventional wisdom is on Heroku (and Ember) a year or two from now. Good luck with the redemption arc! 🙌
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Yehuda Katz
5 months
I joined @heroku about a month ago. I'm going to be helping support the work Sara Cope talked about in her EmberConf talk () to help standardize and modernize Heroku's front-end stack (across quite a few different front-end apps).
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2 years
“open source projects should fund their own dependencies” Yaaassssssssss! 👏 When I buy a cup of coffee I give my money to the coffee shop, not to their suppliers. Same principle. Projects should pass it on vs. end-users (companies) funding the whole transitive dependency graph.
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Nicholas C. Zakas
2 years
And here it is! Sponsoring dependencies: The next step in open source sustainability It’s time for well-funded open source projects to step up and support their dependencies financially. @webpack @babeljs @vuejs @nodejs
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11 years
Just added @jeresig as a Gittip collaborator on GitHub: . Welcome aboard! :D
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11 years
I'm not building Gittip. I'm building a community that's building Gittip.
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Chad Whitacre
8 years
After working 69 weeks without pay, Team @Gratipay finally paid itself again today. 💞 😌 👍 🙇
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Lots of interest for @simonw guest presenting on AI at @getsentry . “Turns out you 𝘤𝘢𝘯 trick it to run binaries.” 😂
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Chad Whitacre
1 year
If you're a @getsentry power user you should subscribe to notifications on our @github Discussions. Our PMs have started using it to drive new feature development and beta launches.
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Chad Whitacre
3 years
I've dreaded this day since joining @getsentry . What day? The day I am immortalized with a bespoke ¾-view avatar in purple, pink, and gold. The thanks I get for authoring my first blog post. 🐭
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I wrote the first draft of this post two months ago, on August 18. Feels great to finally publish it … and to work for a company that asks me to do this kind of thing in the first place. 😁💸💃 $155k to open source … $2k/eng … thanks to everyone who helped make it happen! 🙏
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Sentry
3 years
To all the open source maintainers out there: we appreciate you. Thank you for all your work. #hacktoberfest
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@fux0r @alexellisuk @getsentry I'm not sure exactly what projects of yours we use, I will have to track it down. Right now I'm in the process of funding 𝘢𝘭𝘭 of our deps, as close to 100% on GHS as I can get. You're in there somewhere! Thanks for your work! 😁
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Aiming for 97% in this org and likely similar in the other two (codecov, syntaxfm).
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2 years
I'm happy to see @opencollect reach the point where they are ready to start working on an “exit to community” (and it's good to see some familiar faces behind @exittocommunity ;-). Best of luck, folks! 👏
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2 years
The Fund Fest rolls on ... I just completed @getsentry 's annual payouts on @opencollect —$32,052 to 36 projects. 💃 Aiming for a full run-down on the Sentry blog on Thursday. 👍
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8 years
"Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure" ← @nayafia 's 143 pp. report on FLOSS funding
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Chad Whitacre
3 years
Just made a small contribution to @psycopg . Hopefully we can set up a data-driven approach to giving back to _all_ our dependencies later this year.
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Chad Whitacre
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This weekend is the 10-year anniversary of my first commit to @getsentry : . A few years ago I designed and had this made as a reminder to beware of BS deadlines (painful backstory). I'm glad to have finally realized it has a positive meaning as well! 😁
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Day 0 at @GitHub Universe. Ran into @ljharb @simonw @mhashemi and others. Spread the word about @fossfunders during an OSPO open space. Visited @FeyNudibranch ’s Community sesh for Arnold Palmers. 😊🙌
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2 years
If youʼll be at @AllThingsOpen come to my talk on Tuesday at noon for all the details on @getsentry ʼs open source funding program. Followed by bougie 🥐🥐🥐 at our booth. 💃
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Sentry
2 years
To all the open source maintainers out there: we appreciate you. Thank you for all your work. #Hacktoberfest
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Chad Whitacre
3 years
We just calved off from the main marketing site, gonna rebuild it from scratch as our open-source portal. What do you want to see there?
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Chad Whitacre
5 months
“Pay one time, own forever.” Has @37signals ( @dhh @jasonfried ) said how this relates to versioning? Are they promising pay once, get all future upgrades? I suspect it's more like pay once, get one version, or maybe one major + minors.
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1 year
Pretty much like 99%+ of 𝚐𝚎𝚝𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚢/𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚢 is built by @getsentry staff. This is by design, but it does make it all the more fun when we can land a PR from an outside contributor. :-) Thanks for the PR, Om Ray! 🙇‍♂️
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Chad Whitacre
10 years
Okay! So I guess @pyohio is feeling pretty desperate this year ... just got the call: they've asked me to keynote! O.O
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Chad Whitacre
10 years
OH: "I want to be the Bob Ross of Clojure."
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Chad Whitacre
6 months
To: @garrytan @snowmaker @mwseibel @ycombinator Subject: HN modding Sentry's OSS funding post Our Open Source funding announcement is getting modded again this year. This seems counterproductive to driving needed change to benefit Open Source maintainers. Can you help unmod? 🙏
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HN modded us in record time this year. 😭 Really irritating, ngl.
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3 years
The transparency on @opencollect is definitely useful and refreshing compared to the opacity of other platforms (GitHub Sponsors, Patreon, ...). Great to see a project receiving funds 𝘢𝘯𝘥 putting them to work! 👏 @webpack
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2 years
Itʼs official! I love working for a company that asks me to take care of people like this. 💃
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Sentry
2 years
To all the open source maintainers out there: we appreciate you. Thank you for all your work. #Hacktoberfest
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Chad Whitacre
10 years
Thanks to everyone who has believed in @Gittip for the past two years. I *think* I spy a big wave on the horizon, starting to crest. O.O
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Chad Whitacre
10 years
Today is the day. After 2+ years as Gittip, and 2 months of planning, we are pulling the trigger on a rename: .
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Chad Whitacre
5 years
A year ago, while reading the #golang spec for the first time, I discovered a bug in the compiler(!): . Now I've finally submitted a fix for it: . 💃 Unfortunately, fixing the bug hoses the standard library! 😳
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Chad Whitacre
11 years
I tweaked the algorithm for last night, before today's payday. Tricky problem.
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Chad Whitacre
6 months
We're working on a new license to fix the flaws in the BUSL: plug the holes to ease adoption, ratchet from 4 to 2 years to make it more meaningful. The aim is to launch on November 17(!). Want to weigh in? :-)
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Chad Whitacre
7 years
I love plain text accounting. :-)
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Chad Whitacre
7 months
Zero to one! 💃 This sort of feedback validates our decision this year to fund 𝘢𝘭𝘭 our deps that @github sees, even if only at a small amount. Pretty sure @getsentry is the first company to do this.
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fux0r
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@alexellisuk @getsentry I dunno - it's $4 higher than the $0 I was getting before - I'd rather have a bunch of low-amount sponsors than one or two big ones - more resilient against drop-off I appreciate any sponsorship (:
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Okay! Blog post in the hopper for tomorrow AM, payments should be going out as we speak through @thanks_dev . We're giving to 500+ maintainers this year, over 2x last year. Quite complex! Lots of edge cases, and we're building the tooling as we go. Thanks for bearing with us. 🙏
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Chad Whitacre
7 years
Cohacking at the @Hacker0x01 office! Grateful for hospitality, convos w/ @leejosephinem @jobertabma @senorarroz @martenmickos &c. 🙇 ❤️ 🔒
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2 years
Looks like Iʼm going to be at @getsentry ʼs first dev conference next month (lwatcdr). Somewhat torn about attending in person because @codewithanthony is running the live stream. 😂
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Chad Whitacre
11 years
Introducing the world's most positive and encouraging IRC bot command: http://t.co/hbXS7bCsAY
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Chad Whitacre
3 years
Right! Sooooooo ... I work for @getsentry now. 🙊
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2 years
Here's that link for the Open Source Program Manager I'm looking to hire: . Let's find each other! :D
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Chad Whitacre
3 years
I love seeing @getsentry on here for the first time. 😁👍
@OpenSourceOrg
Open Source Initiative @[email protected]
3 years
We’d like to take a moment to thank these companies for generously supporting the #OSI ! Interested in supporting the OSI? Contact us today to learn more!
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11 years
Oh shit, Korea! :O
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Turns out I get to help Sentry give money to open source. Kinda great to be on the other side of the table now. 😁
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Chad Whitacre
8 years
Congrats to the @opensourceway team on landing a design refresh! Definitely an improvement. 👍
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Chad Whitacre
11 years
Ah, another day! Another chance to stare at a big flat lightbulb for 10 hours. :-)
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Chad Whitacre
5 months
Testimonials like this do not happen overnight. 😳
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5 months
New @getsentry homepage dropped. 🙌🔥
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Chad Whitacre
8 years
When @ntnsndr first proposed #WeAreTwitter , I did not expect to emerge less than three weeks later. 👍 Go team!
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Chad Whitacre
7 years
Shout-outs to @nayafia and @jayfresh in . Thanks for your work! :-) Rest in peace, @elinorostrom . 🙇
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Chad Whitacre
11 years
I just applied for @ycombinator . Here's my application: . /cc @paulg
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Chad Whitacre
10 years
Reminder that @dhh and I will have a Hangout re: extrinsic rewards and OSS tomorrow (Tuesday) at http://t.co/T7Bp78wD8c.
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Chad Whitacre
8 years
First-timer and I made 👊📜✂️‼ at @codeandsupply Build Night️ tonight.
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Chad Whitacre
8 years
I want to see a lot more cross-pollination between the open-source and new economy communities. Each has invented one wheel—time for a bike!
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Chad Whitacre
7 years
We're getting ready to launch something on @Gratipay next week. I'm reaaalllyy nervous about it. What if it doesn't work? What if it *does*?
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Chad Whitacre
11 years
Turned down an interview with @TechCrunch . They weren't comfortable streaming/posting to YouTube. Deets: .
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Chad Whitacre
1 year
Not rubber. Not a duck. Buuuuut ... this is my sonʼs first 3-D printing project, in 5th grade. He included a slot to attach a cape. Years later, in 8th grade, I bought him his own printer. Guess what the first thing he made was? 🥹 Heʼs in 10th grade now. @getsentry #jamstackconf
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@getsentry
Sentry
1 year
Day one of @JamstackConf is underway! Stop by our booth to say hi & don't miss our lightning talk today at 4:15pm. ⚡️ P.S. Have you entered to win a Nintendo Switch yet? Share a photo of your coding rubber duck & tag @getsentry & #jamstackconf before the end of the event.
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1 year
Been a minute.
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Chad Whitacre
1 year
Just open-sourced our eng-pipes repo, plumbing for Slack ⇔ GitHub ⇔ GoCD webhooks. This is where we build out our GH issue routing and triage automations.
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Chad Whitacre
2 years
Props to @armenzg for this alpha version of an easy peasy Sentry integration for all of the GitHub Actions across your organization, so you can see and debug CI/CD issues.
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Chad Whitacre
7 months
didn't write any javascript yesterday, but I did eat a carolina reaper 🌶️
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James Ross
7 months
didn't write any javascript today, but I did jump out of a plane 🪂
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