Open source funding is still unsolved. I have tried plenty of the fixes, and the tip button on my GitHub profile has earned exactly one dollar in eleven months. So when a cold email offered to sponsor s, my terminal search tool, I said yes - not because I need the money, but to see whether this was something the wider ecosystem could use. I had never used pump.fun and I am not a fan of memecoins, which is exactly why I treated it as an experiment. They launched a coin with my project’s name on it, set me up to collect a cut of the trading fees, and roughly $11,000 arrived inside a day. It also produced zero pull requests, zero code suggestions, and not one person willing to test the Android build of my game. This is the whole story, good, bad and ugly.

BCHD has an interesting history in the Bitcoin Cash ecosystem. Originally launched in 2018, it quickly became known for its developer-friendly features and modern architecture. When Chris Pacia, the original developer, moved on to other projects, BCHD was left without active maintenance. Like many open source projects, maintaining consensus with network upgrades requires consistent development effort, and in 2023, BCHD fell out of consensus with the network, temporarily sidelining what had been a key piece of BCH infrastructure.