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Once a Maintainer: Mike Dalessio
The nokogiri maintainer on how AI has changed security and on maintainer burnout
Jun 25

November 2025

Identifying unmaintained open source packages at scale
Detecting when packages are unmaintained so engineering teams can take action.
Nov 20, 2025

May 2025

Once a Maintainer: William Woodruff
The security engineer on meeting engineers where they are, and what keeps him up at night
May 21, 2025

February 2025

Once a Maintainer: Ed Waisanen and Nate Papes
On Gala, an open source platform for collaborative research and learning
Feb 19, 2025

November 2024

Once a Maintainer: Santiago Pastorino
Working on the Rust compiler
Nov 26, 2024

October 2024

Once a Maintainer: André Luis Cardoso Jr.
Mentoring the next generation of open source contributors
Oct 18, 2024

September 2024

Once a Maintainer: Nate Berkopec
The Puma maintainer on becoming the go-to for performance
Sep 27, 2024
Once a Maintainer: AdriĂ  Mercader
Building data portals for the world
Sep 16, 2024

August 2024

Once a Maintainer: Bryan Housel
Mapping the world with Open Street Map, and why "spatial is special"
Aug 30, 2024
Once a Maintainer: Sean Law
The creator of STUMPY, a performant time series data analysis library in Python
Aug 20, 2024

June 2024

Once a Maintainer: Sofie Van Landeghem
On maintaining spaCy and the evolution of NLP
Jun 28, 2024
Once a Maintainer: Mike McQuaid
15 years of Homebrew
Jun 18, 2024
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