This is a short post by long-time open source maintainer Chris Manson about commitment to tasks in the open source world and how life always takes priority over dev.

We always need to keep in mind that most open source contributions are given from people that are opting to give up their spare time (usually for free) and the level of expectation can never come anywhere close to the sort of relationship that an employer might have with an employee or contractor.

Pairs well with Every commit is a gift. 🍷

Chris Manson goes into detail about the benefits of a clean git history and describes some tips and tricks that really help you clean up your branches and Pull Requests.

Chris Manson:

A great beginners guide to ASTs, what they are and how to make use of them in your day-to-day lives as a developer! This workshop was originally planned to be in-person at EmberConf but now it’s free for everyone to try out 🎉

KBall and Nick dive deep with Chris Manson and Jen Weber from the Ember core team. They talk about Ember.js: What it is, why it’s different, what’s new in the Ember Octane release, and what’s exciting in the future of the project.

Starring Yehuda Katz and Tom Dale (co-creators of Ember.js) and many other big names from the Ember community, “Ember.js: The Documentary” explores why and how Ember.js came to be, the pioneers behind its creation and the life-altering decisions that go into making open-source software.

These mini-documentaries are so cool!

Chris Manson:

Another incremental release of EmberJS but there are some interesting nuggets in there. A major addition to the declarative templating system, improvements to polymorphic relationship lazy loading in Ember Data and a big improvement to testing helpers 🎉

The Energizer Bunny of front-end frameworks keeps going and going…

This project is designed to be a fully-functional, static site implementation of a blog system that is mostly compatible with Ghost and is built on EmberJS with fully working out of the box SEO friendly output. It supports being hosted on AWS S3 or any other static site hosting solution.

Check out the demo. It’s 100% static and hosted on S3. 🎉

This is an excellent post with some immediately useful takeaways (and some open source, to boot). Chris starts it with a compelling description of JSON API’s value proposition:

how to use JSON API as an “anti-bikeshedding weapon”

Building Restful APIs requires hundreds of tiny decisions, which is like having a bike shed on every corner. Outsource the little stuff!