"Instead of a community of active contributors, open source often looks more like a few developers playing air traffic controller to thousands of users who are lightly involved."
https://increment.com/open-source/the-rise-of-few-maintainer-projects/
Fabulous post on how software contribution dynamics have changed.
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I'd much rather have a function with only a return type instead of a function with only parameter types. It's often quick to add too.
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ChatGPT gave me something that worked, but the Claude mock-ups look better (and render inline!).