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Front-End Fire · Monday · 55 min

165: Open Source Was Fun While It Lasted

Open source was fun while it lasted. AI-generated submissions are swamping maintainers and bug bounty programs, so the gates are closing, and we can’t say we blame the people closing them. We also dig into Pi 1.0 and the new Pi Durable framework, and a dev who used Claude to reverse engineer Adobe Creative Suite and release it as open source. Plus: Deno joins Cloudflare, and an ice cream map that divided us. Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 1:45 - OSS maintainers and companies are shutting off PRs and bug bounty programs 9:07 - Pi 1.0 16:06 - Someone vibe coded a free knockoff of Adobe Creative Suite 36:31 - Deno is joining Cloudflare 39:53 - example.com changes 41:38 - Controversial state-by-state ice cream infographic 46:32 - What's making us happy News Paige: Pi 1.0 and Pi Durable Jack: Someone vibe coded a free knockoff of Adobe Creative Suite TJ: OSS maintainers and companies are shutting off their external PR & bug bounty programs Lightning News Deno is joining Cloudflare example.com changes Controversial state by state ice cream infographic What's Making Us Happy Paige: Black Sails show Jack: OSX shortcut to reorder the menu bar icons TJ: Using AI to clean up old photos Thanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channel on YouTube. Join us in our Discord, explore our website and reach us via email, or talk to us on X, Bluesky, or YouTube. Front-End Fire website Blue Collar Coder on YouTube Blue Collar Coder on Discord Reach out via email Tweet at us on X @front_end_fire Follow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast

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Open source was fun while it lasted. AI-generated submissions are swamping maintainers and bug bounty programs, so the gates are closing, and we can’t say we blame the people closing them. We also dig into Pi 1.0 and the new Pi Durable framework, and a dev who used Claude to reverse engineer Adobe Creative Suite and release it as open source. Plus: Deno joins Cloudflare, and an ice cream map that divided us.

Timestamps

  • 0:00 - Intro
  • 1:45 - OSS maintainers and companies are shutting off PRs and bug bounty programs
  • 9:07 - Pi 1.0
  • 16:06 - Someone vibe coded a free knockoff of Adobe Creative Suite
  • 36:31 - Deno is joining Cloudflare
  • 39:53 - example.com changes
  • 41:38 - Controversial state-by-state ice cream infographic
  • 46:32 - What's making us happy

News

Lightning News

What's Making Us Happy

Thanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channel on YouTube. Join us in our Discord, explore our website and reach us via email, or talk to us on X, Bluesky, or YouTube.

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