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πŸ“— Author, @approachableopensource.com πŸŽͺ Sneelock of the Circus 🀹 @nodejs.org website maintainer πŸ¦† Rough cut woodworker 🎯 OSPO at Target πŸ‘¨πŸ»β€πŸ¦² Views my own. He/Him

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the frontpage of the washington post with the masthead repeated twice

the frontpage of the washington post with the masthead repeated twice

Tell me you've had layoffs without telling me you've had layoffs

13.02.2026 11:29 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Introducing Gorilla: A Parent-Controlled YouTube Experience : Brian Muenzenmeyer Introducing Gorilla: A Parent-Controlled YouTube Experience : A New Way for Parents to Curate YouTube Content for Their Kids : The personal website of Brian Muenzenmeyer.

Also wrote a more personal blog style post over at brianmuenzenmeyer.com/posts/2025-i...

31.12.2025 02:48 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Introducing 🦍Gorilla - an app to make your own YouTube Kids - that you control. I've been working on a YouTube wrapper for the boys. I call it Gorilla! Get it at https://gorilla.

Introducing 🦍Gorilla!

A YouTube wrapper that give parents the ultimate control over what their kids watch. I built this for my kids, and they love it. Moreover, they watch LESS NOW.

Check out out at gorilla.tube

www.linkedin.com/pulse/introd...

#parenting #ipadkids #youtube #indiedev

31.12.2025 02:45 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

kidding aside, some research says I might be able to actively re-habilitate this domain, if it's worth it, via google search console work. need to crunch some numbers

23.12.2025 02:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I could do something pretty funny with those requests, but I don't wanna be a dick.

23.12.2025 02:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Bought a domain and pushed some content to it. Early analytics turned up WAY too many hits. Wayback says it hosted porn about 5 years ago. I guess availability is no longer the only concern on domain searches - you might be inheriting a WHOLE LOT of unwanted traffic.

23.12.2025 02:16 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
The title slide of the talk, Finite Source Machines: Contribution for Busy Humans. It depicts a study drawn by Leonardo Da Vinci for his unfinished painting, The Adoration of the Magi.

The title slide of the talk, Finite Source Machines: Contribution for Busy Humans. It depicts a study drawn by Leonardo Da Vinci for his unfinished painting, The Adoration of the Magi.

Finally released my long-form version of Finite Source Machines: Contribution for Busy Humans from All Things Open this October.

Read it at approachableopensource.com/blog/2025-op...

Thanks again to @allthingsopen.bsky.social for the opportunity.

#opensource #lessonsfrom500yearsago

20.12.2025 21:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It'd be nice to be able to generate an SBOM as an artifact on the Releases page too.

06.12.2025 03:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's Friday night, so of course I spent it opening a bug report to GitHub on their SBOM generation feature. SBOMs reference a branch, with no correlation to the sha of the current commit on the default branch. Very simple win to introduce true traceability.

#FridayNightCoding #GitHub #SBOM

06.12.2025 03:04 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is true of all team members actually. The trick is to have more >1 days than less

25.11.2025 01:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

All the interesting stuff to me is in the deltas. But that YoY insight can be flawed too or easy to associate too much, with new data collection techniques or outreach.

17.11.2025 03:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

❀️

17.11.2025 00:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Anyway, enjoy, report bugs, etc. I wrote it REALLY fast, like.... delete the CSS and go! But each iteration gets better markup, and the tech (11ty) still holds up years later. Finally switched this to pnpm too.

16.11.2025 23:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This also just begs for a playable tetris game. I need worked to polish this initial cut of AI slop into a Web Component that can handle many tetris blocks, or give me just one, etc. Seems like a fun thing to iterate on. Only renders on wider screens.

16.11.2025 23:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

People want to classify you as one thing or another. Life is far more complicated than that and I choose to celebrate it.

16.11.2025 23:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
the new homepage for brianmuenzenmeyer.com

me, at All Things Open, with a dithered effect and procedurely generated tetris blocks overlayed

the new homepage for brianmuenzenmeyer.com me, at All Things Open, with a dithered effect and procedurely generated tetris blocks overlayed

Gave brianmuenzenmeyer.com a facelift this week. I've leaned into this notion that I don't fit into a neat box anymore. I'm a multifaceted leader and human, at work, in life, in my relationship, etc. I keep seeing this reality in my travels, and sometimes it even hinders me.

16.11.2025 23:09 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Approachable Open Source Buy Approachable Open Source

πŸ’Έ 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/

08.11.2025 13:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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

08.11.2025 13:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ†“ 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.

08.11.2025 13:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

✨ 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.

08.11.2025 13:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸŽ™οΈ 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.

08.11.2025 13:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Approachable Open Source Adapting an idea and visualizing symmathesy.

🌐 For immediate release, from my desk to your device...
πŸ“° Saturday News Drop!
πŸ““ New post: Open Source Pace Layers, now live on the approachableopensource.com blog!

approachableopensource.com/blog/2025-op...

08.11.2025 13:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Node.js - You Don't Need a Dependency - Brian Muenzenmeyer, Node.js
Node.js - You Don't Need a Dependency - Brian Muenzenmeyer, Node.js YouTube video by OpenJS Foundation

Recording for my @jsconf.bsky.social talk is now up

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRxS...

#opensource #nodejs

24.10.2025 12:15 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Download page is blank Β· Issue #8248 Β· nodejs/nodejs.org URL: https://nodejs.org/en/download Browser Name: Chrome Browser Version: 141.0.7390.108 Operating System: Windows 10, 22H2 How to reproduce the issue: Open nodejs.org website Navigate to Download ...

You know you have a good open source team when you can resolve a production outage from report, triage, debugging, fix, testing, through to PR merge and deployment in 57 minutes.

#nodejs #opensource

github.com/nodejs/nodej...
github.com/nodejs/nodej...

21.10.2025 02:30 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

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

20.10.2025 14:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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

20.10.2025 14:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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. 🀞

16.10.2025 18:42 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Hahahhahahha.
There are two other known typos, not intentionally. These hardware bugs are harder to patch!

20.10.2025 00:59 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
A tshirt with a list

Community &
Issues &
Pull Requests &
Releases &
API &
License

A tshirt with a list Community & Issues & Pull Requests & Releases & API & License

πŸ‘•I sported this tee at @allthingsopen.bsky.social the other day - and in celebration you can pick up your own copy of the #opensource stack!

#community &
#issues &
#pullrequests &
#releases &
#api &
#license

Get yours over at approachableopensource.com

19.10.2025 17:34 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

s/Thesis/thanks

18.10.2025 12:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0