LinkedIn·Thursday, 20 August 2026·7d ago
Last week I watched a JobRunr tutorial in a language I do not speak. Someone I have never met explained my own library to an audience I…
Ronald Dehuysser
Founder and Developer at JobRunr
Last week I watched a JobRunr tutorial in a language I do not speak.
Someone I have never met explained my own library to an audience I could never reach.
So we went looking. There are a lot more of them. Blog posts, conference talks, videos, Stack Overflow answers, in languages I cannot even read.
Nobody asked them. They found the thing useful and told other people about it.
That is the part of open source that still makes me smile. You write code alone in a room during a scary year, not knowing if any of it will matter, and years later strangers are teaching it to other strangers.
If you have written, recorded, streamed or spoken about JobRunr: thank you 🙏 Tag yourself below, because I know we missed people and I would like to find all of you.
And to open-source maintainers reading this who feel invisible right now: someone is probably using your thing today and never told you...
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