Marko Wallin

Entistä ehompi #Highkara uutislukija #iOS:lle nyt App Storessa: itunes.apple.com/fi/app/highkar…. Uutiset kuvien kera ja nyt myös haku.

All my new code will be closed-source from now on. I've contributed millions of lines of carefully written OSS code over the past decade, spent thousands of hours helping other people. If you want to use my libraries (1M+ downloads/month) in the future, you have to pay. I made good money funneling people through my OSS and being recognized as expert in several fields. This was entirely based on HUMANS knowing and seeing me by USING and INTERACTING with my code. No humans will ever read my docs again when coding agents do it in seconds. Nobody will even know it's me who built it. Look at Tailwind: 75 million downloads/month, more popular than ever, revenue down 80%, docs traffic down 40%, 75% of engineering team laid off. Someone submitted a PR to add LLM-optimized docs and Wathan had to decline - optimizing for agents accelerates his business's death. He's being asked to build the infrastructure for his own obsolescence. Two of the most common OSS business models: - Open Core: Give away the library, sell premium once you reach critical mass (Tailwind UI, Prisma Accelerate, Supabase Cloud...) - Expertise Moat: Be THE expert in your library - consulting gigs, speaking, higher salary Tailwind just proved the first one is dying. Agents bypass the documentation funnel. They don't see your premium tier. Every project relying on docs-to-premium conversion will face the same pressure: Prisma, Drizzle, MikroORM, Strapi, and many more. The core insight: OSS monetization was always about attention. Human eyeballs on your docs, brand, expertise. That attention has literally moved into attention layers. Your docs trained the models that now make visiting you unnecessary. Human attention paid. Artificial attention doesn't. Some OSS will keep going - wealthy devs doing it for fun or education. That's not a system, that's charity. Most popular OSS runs on economic incentives. Destroy them, they stop playing. Why go closed-source? When the monetization funnel is broken, you move payment to the only point that still exists: access. OSS gave away access hoping to monetize attention downstream. Agents broke downstream. Closed-source gates access directly. The final irony: OSS trained the models now killing it. We built our own replacement. My prediction: a new marketplace emerges, built for agents. Want your agent to use Tailwind? Prisma? Pay per access. Libraries become APIs with meters. The old model: free code -> human attention -> monetization. The new model: pay at the gate or your agent doesn't get in.

I've tried all (24) AI coding agents & IDEs 😵‍💫 [Cursor, Softgen, Windsurf, Wrapifai, Copilot, Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit, MarsX, Claude, AmazonQ, Pear, Devin, Github Spark, IDX, Webdraw, Tempo, Cline, Continue, Databutton, Base44, Qodo, Aider] The Vibe Coding giga-thread:

Short notes on tech week 22 of 2024: ruleoftech.com/2024/short-not…. Found this on my drafts :) Threat modeling, tech debt, security assessment and more.

Short notes on tech for week 16 of 2024: ruleoftech.com/2024/short-not…. Some DevOps, programming and accessibility.

Playwright “enables reliable end-to-end testing for modern web apps” and it has good documentation also for Best Practices. I wrote a blog post with my notes of Playwright Best Practices documentation with some additions: ruleoftech.com/2024/notes-of-….

Short notes on tech 6/2024: ruleoftech.com/2024/short-not…. Continuous Integration by Martin Fowler, predictions for Devops in 2024, 12 Modern CSS One-Line Upgrades, how ARIA live regions work, Developer Productivity and Happiness Framework and Debugging Python.

Short notes for the week 51 of 2023: ruleoftech.com/2023/short-not…. Full of DevOps.

Short notes on tech for week 46 of 2023: ruleoftech.com/2023/short-not…. CSS edition.

Short notes on tech for week 40 of 2023: ruleoftech.com/2023/short-not…. DevOps, modern dev practices and SCM practices.

Accessibility is important part of software development and there are useful tools you can use to check how your web app conforms to WCAG guidelines. Read my blog post of "Developing with accessibility in mind": ruleoftech.com/2023/developin… #a11y #accessibility

Short notes on tech for week 37 of 2023: ruleoftech.com/2023/short-not…. OWASP Kubernetes Top Ten, Implement DevSecOps, Automated accessibility audits in Xcode 15, frontend pull request, use this checklist and some more.

Short notes on tech for week 24 of 2023: ruleoftech.com/2023/short-not…. With topics such as 365 Days of iOS Accessibility, new in CSS and UI: I/O 2023 Edition, running GitHub Actions locally and when you think dark mode is enough.

"Have you tried turning it off and on again" almost always works. Magic Trackpad lagged and the solution was obvious 🤦‍♂️😅

Haaga-Helia had AI Forum webinar couple of weeks ago and here's my short notes of the talks: ruleoftech.com/2023/ai-forum-…. Työmarkkinatori was interesting, also the ML topics. Unfortunately the recordings are not available. #ai #ml #mlops

Short notes of tech 14/2023: ruleoftech.com/2023/short-not…. ChatGPT for designers and the end of front-end development. Recognise dark UX patterns. Also Terraform tips.

Accessibility in Web design is an important part of the big picture and fortunately it's role is nowadays more and more recognized. @dequesystems axe-con was held last week and here's my short notes from some of the talks: ruleoftech.com/2023/notes-fro…. #a11y #axecon #accessibility

"Clean code" has different meanings for a programmer, compiler and especially to academic person. Good video of "Clean Code, Horrible Performance": youtu.be/tD5NrevFtbU. Readable code is often better than academically defined "maintainable" code.

Peli,t jotka yllättävät tietyillä ominaisuuksillaan, vaikka pelilisesti eivät olisikaan AAA-luokkaa: HellBlade: Senua's Sacrifice. Kirjoitin blogiin lyhyen pelikokemuksen: verteksi.net/2023/03/06/pel….

Short notes on tech 9/2023: ruleoftech.com/2023/short-not…. Web Design heavy edition with guide to responsive design, neurodiversity design system, CSS container and style queries, colors and contrasts and easier dark mode.

The first ever @SaimaaSec live event was held last week and here's my very short notes about it: ruleoftech.com/2023/first-eve…. Great talks, hope we'll see more. #infosec