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Episode 22

Closed Core, Open Shell

Reviewing Pull Requests takes a lot of mental overhead. When is it OK to just not accept Pull Requests?

The Swyx Mixtape · Swyx

February 9, 20214m 48s

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Show Notes

An interesting idea I heard on the StackOverflow Podcast - locking open source code to contributions, and then having an open plugin ecosystem where people can do whatever they want.

- Sara Chipps and Paul Ford on StackOverflow Podcast
- Litestream closed to contributions for self preservation
- Simon Willison's datasette project

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