Do you WANT contributors?
If you maintain an open-source project, your contributing file is where you set the terms—of the relationship, of the boundaries, of what you will and won't do. Own your answer. Change it when it stops working.
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The Browser Is the Largest Compute Platform on Earth
Modern browsers can run numerical computing, machine learning, and GPU-accelerated workloads locally. Here's why that changes everything.
The Stakeholder Journey: From User to Contributor
Every project eventually faces the same question: who tends to this when the current maintainers can't? It used to have an accidental answer. The Stakeholder Journey is a tool for building an intentional one—identifying where to invest energy to find and cultivate the next generation.
Mapping Your Ecosystem (and Its Saboteurs)
Naming everyone in your open-source ecosystem—both competitors and colleagues—and following where value flows.
The Open-Source Ecosystem Canvas
An ecosystem canvas makes an open-source project say who it's really for. Here's what ours surfaced about stdlib's value propositions for contributors and users—and why they're not the same.
What We're No Longer Seeing: AI and the Invisible Newcomer in Open Source
How AI is absorbing the visible friction that open-source communities have always relied on to see—and welcome—newcomers.
GSoC 2026 Selected Projects
We're thrilled to share that stdlib will have five contributors participating in Google Summer of Code 2026.
Zen of stdlib
A philosophy of simplicity, modularity, consistency, and craft.
Connect with the stdlib community on Zulip
Announcing the launch of stdlib's new Zulip chat community
Using AI in the development of stdlib
A reflection on stdlib's participation in the 2025 METR study on AI's impact on open-source developer productivity.