How a leaked file started the Open Source AI revolution... 👇 ft. @Meta, @llama, @WizardLM_AI, @ggerganov, @finkd, @StateshiftHQ, @MistralAI, @Raspberry_Pi

On a flight and literally can't tell whether the smell is from the food or whether someone threw up. Not even joking...

Heading out to @AllThingsOpen, @AgenticAIFdn @linuxfoundation AGNTCon, and @OReillyMedia FooCamp. Hope to see some of you in person!

Users signing up for your product and not using it? Here's the 6min fix 👇

Tomorrow at 4.55am I will be waking up to pre-order an iPhone Duo...Apple's first foldable. Am I a total numpty for wanting one, or are you excited for a folding iPhone too? Image Credit: Tom's Guide.

How to ruin your Open Source project in 150 seconds. What am I missing? 👇

TODAY at 10am Pacific: a FREE hands-on workshop for how to create your first 10 videos for YouTube and social media - creating ideas, scripting, editing, thumbnails/titles, which metrics to track and improve. Register here: 👇 linkedin.com/events/75081949…

New Stateshift swag

GitHub stars are a vanity metric. Before you raise the pitchforks, here us out. They feel great, photograph well, but tell you almost nothing about whether anyone actually uses your project. A star is basically an applause, but not actually product adoption. We've worked with dozens of dev-focused companies and the ones with genuinely healthy OSS projects have stopped putting star counts on the slide. They track three behaviors instead: 1. Package downloads and active installs (npm, PyPI, Docker pulls). Someone pulled the code onto a machine. That's a decision, not a bookmark. 2. Issue signal-to-noise. Repeat contributors filing real bugs = people running you in production and hitting the sharp edges. Drive-by reactions mean nothing. 3. Time-to-second-PR. First PRs are curiosity, second PRs are commitment. In the healthy projects we've measured, a returning contributor shows up inside 30 days. In the dead ones, they never do. Stars tell you people noticed, but these three will tell you they really cared.

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How we built @ubuntu's 65M+ community (and what I'd never do again) ft. @sabdfl, @mdz, @Canonical, @castrojo, @mhall119, @makoshark and many others.

Chart of my YouTube channel's growth...and an illustration of "less is more." Like a lot of founders....I decided on a cadence of content - 2 videos a week w/ shorts every day. My stupid theory: more content == more growth. Well, the result was rushed, uninteresting, boring content. So...a month ago we made the decision to scrap the schedule and focus on every video counting. Now we ship fewer videos, but each performs waaay better, because we are super-intentional about what videos to greenlight...we spend time discussing and fine tuning the edit/thumbnails/...and the results are better but also the process *feels* better because it is anchored to quality. Are the videos perfect? No, they never will be and we have a lot to learn, but I think we are on the right path. So, do less...and make the less you do really count. 🤘

Most companies think they understand developers but they're dead wrong... We’ve watched smart companies fumble developer marketing for years. But Ubuntu built such a following that people got it tattooed on them (we’re not lying 🤘🏼). The ones that break through aren't really building products. They're building MOVEMENTS. And a movement needs core beliefs, a loyal crowd who lives by them, but also pushing back against the non-believers. Turns out positioning is less about simply fitting in your category and more about being the alternative to it.

How a printer changed Open Source forever... 👇