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SxSW 2015

SxSW 2015

from rags to... open-source?

SxSW 2015
Austin, TX

Mike McNeil

March 15, 2015
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  1. 1. No one knows about your $!#% 2. No one

    knows how to use your $!#% 3. No one pays you for your $!#%
  2. You don't want to be writing all these system calls.

    You need something that gives you… an ORM abstraction, or something.
  3. Github stars NPM downloads / day Google group membership IRC

    channel activity Number of tagged StackOverflow questions
 (and your answer ratio)
  4. asset pipeline???? “what about gulp?!” “so thirsty…” asset pipeline????????!!!! asset

    pipeline????????!!!! asset pipeline????????!!!! asset pipeline????????!!!! asset pipeline????????!!!!
  5. only write code you actually need if someone else actually

    needs something, they’ll write a pull request only merge new code if someone actually needs you to merge it (i.e. there’s no other way, via a plugin or something)
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  7. We're just giving you functions that return functions that you

    do things with. Doug Wilson Lead Maintainer, Express
  8. “Since we can execute Bash and PowerShell scripts on the

    machine that is supposed to run the sails app, we can pretty much do whatever we want…” contributes to Sails.js
  9. “…Treeline is working with the Sails.js community to bring in

    JavaScript developers who could use the editor to be more productive.”