💸 Lastly, I've prices of the book to get it into more hands. For those outside of shipping zone, there are some print on demand options now on the site too. If you are interested in supporting me and my work, check it out.

approachableopensource.com/shop/

(I learned today that some of the backtick formatting was lost on epub to HTML conversion, so I'll be working to fix that!)

🆓 To celebrate this new post, I've also released Chapter 3: Consuming Open Source Software. This remains a good coffee read and resource nonetheless. Find this in the comments, as well as the source code.

✨ This post complements Chapter 1 of Approachable Open Source - providing thematic oomph as you start your reading journey. I've "illuminated" the text with a link directly too it. A first iteration of transforming the text into a truly perennial resource that will outlast any print run.

🎙️ This idea percolated from a short conversation with Marty Henderson, into a @nodejs.org blog post, to a cozy @minnestar.org talk, to a great JavaScriptMN meetup night, and finally a full-stage @jsconf.bsky.social talk last month. It was only proper to give this the long-form treatment it deserves.

it was. in early conversations with my editors they were suspicious that the joke would land. i insisted

honestly it was better live, with confusion in all. If YOU cannot land it well, gosh knows how the community will navigate.

Well enough. I rambled a bit because I was off script, but no one said I bombed it lol. So that's good. Now I hope we can get the folks at @github.com to put a pause on next months changes for @npmjs.bsky.social publishing. 🤞

s/Thesis/thanks

Community highlights ✨

- @squiggleconf.com happened!
- @brianmuenzenmeyer.com shares pure TS GitHub Actions
- @azraelsec.sh type branding ELI5
- @evanhahn.com don't use ts-ignore
- Matt Brown explains using Node's Test Runner with TypeScript & React
- Motion AI on why they're moving off of TS

learned it from @mhdawson.bsky.social i think!