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@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-07-20 09:44:17

TIL that I've actually created a few "high impact" packages on NPM (with 1 million downloads per week)... Just got this email from them (see screenshot)
If each one of these would just pay me $0.001, I could actually comfortably dedicate myself full time to these projects (which has been my long, long dream job). But the system and social contract around open source is completely broken and so I've to balance my time and try to sustain myself and my family via other ways for periods o…

Screenshot of an except of the email received from NPM: "Hi, thi.ng! Thank you for enabling two-factor authentication (2FA) on your account. On August 4, 2026, your account will be enrolled for mandatory 2FA as you are a maintainer of high impact package(s): @thi.ng/errors. High impact packages are packages with more than 1 million weekly downloads or over 500 dependents."
@vosje62@mastodon.nl
2026-05-22 01:02:33

RE: mastodon.social/@matthiasott/1
'That contract is now broken. Generative UI doesn’t link to your article. It absorbs your article, synthesizes it into a widget, and presents it as Google’s own answer.'
Let that sink in (and read the complete article first.)
Let this be Google's "altavista" moment.
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