Today is Thanksgiving, and one thing I’m thankful for is this open-source community I’m lucky to be a part of.
Around the world and online, I have met folks who build cool things on the web, whether OSS SaaS products or foundational libraries and building blocks for all to use and build on top of. This open sharing of knowledge, code, and tools is one of the reasons why I left the music industry 8 years ago and settled on the Web as my building platform of choice.
At the beginning of 2025, I had two goals:
- Speak at a conference (done, three times 🇫🇷🇺🇸🇬🇧)
- Sign the Open Source Pledge
This year has been a wild ride, but the combination of being backed by GitHub sponsors (thank you! 💖) and the recent winning of the Clerk Hackathon allows me to sign the Open Source Pledge as an individual for the first time this year.
I’m giving a total of 2700€ (USD $3,132) divided equally between the maintainers of dependencies that help me build nuqs, and/or that I use in my client projects:
Andrey Sitnik for size-limit, to keep the bundle size small.
Anthony Fu’s collective for vitest, to make sure everything works fine.
Artem Zakharchenko for msw, the best network mocking library ever made.
Bjorn Lu for publint, to make sure I follow best practices.
Daishi Kato for jotai, the gateway drug to signals for React devs.
Dominik Dorfmeister for @tanstack/react-query& contributing to nuqs.
fregante for Refined GitHub, so useful I can’t use the stock UI anymore.
Fuma Nama for fumadocs, which makes these interactive docs possible.
Kevin Deng for tsdown, the only bundler that ticked all the boxes.
Lars Kappert for knip, to find unused code and ✂️ knip it off.
Matt Travi for semantic-release, that lets me never think about version numbers again.
Mohammad Bagher for pkg.pr.new, the maintainer’s superpower: preview builds on PRs.
Nicolas Dubien for fast-check, which fuzzy-tests URL encoding.
SaltyAom for elysia, a cool type-safe API framework I want to play more with.
Tom Lienard for sherifwhich enforces the Law in the nuqs monorepo.
Fastify, that I use daily for client work as a backend framework.
Node.js, the heart of our FLOSS, community-driven ecosystem.
PNPM, my package manager of choice that links it all together.
Thank you to all of those wonderful folks and organisations, and happy Thanksgiving. 🫶