Sam Ragsdale

@samrags

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Merit is available today.

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Merit is available today. @rfs and I started building projects together over 10 years ago—side projects built to amuse and grow our skills. We learned to code by reading millions of lines of code written by humanity's best engineers on GitHub. This is the marvel of Open Source. But there's never been an economic model that makes sense. The Terminal is our Open Source ecosystem explorer. It views Open Source as a social graph, much like Facebook or Twitter, but for code. The Terminal natively supports money—pay other developers, pay repos, pay anything. Merit powers our payment engine. It's a system that allows repositories to collect funds and pay their contributors, weighted by their impact. Merit handles all the administrative overhead, so you can focus on building and growing your tribe. Repo payments are limited to a few initial partners. Fill in your details and we'll reach out: https://www.merit.systems/partner Check out the Terminal today: https://terminal.merit.systems

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Went to Denver for the OSS Summit with @mason. Three big takeaways: - OSS remains the best form of distribution for enduring dev tools. OSS is non-negotiable deep in the stack. - Everyone is excited about the open source infra enabling AI. The tech is so deep and specialized that the industry has converged around highly optimized public infra for serving, auto-scaling and training. Startups can build atop without worrying about building the vertical stack from scratch. - OSS is aging out and it's existential. Proportion of maintainers under 25 is down 50% over the past 5-years, the industry knows they need to engage the next generation. This is something we're laser-focused on at Merit, with contributor payments and project monetization. More on this coming very soon

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RepoRoast dot Fun surfaces the humor on Github. Go check it out! https://www.reporoast.fun/

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Cline and Roo are fully Open Source Cursor competitors. Today they're doing over $7.5M MRR on the Claude models alone (via @openrouterai). Their take rate? 0. It's unprecedented in the history of computing for the infrastructure layer to accrue all the value.

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Soon OSS funding will have a real solution

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@merit_systems is the vision I've had for crypto since I entered the space through UniswapV2 MEV back in 2021. Blockchains are good at settlement. The largest market for settlement is not memecoins but labor. The most productive category of labor is Open Source Software. Very proud to unveil @meritsystems alongside @rfs @mason.

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Awesome effort to make the hidden network of open source work legible. OSS is an engine of tremendous economic productivity. Deep Funding builds a weighted dependency graph of the open source ecosystem to enable fair, automated payments for sustaining developers. $170k is meaningful, but once fragmented across hundreds of repos, each will receive $50-$5k. The payment is unlikely to cover its own admin overhead. Our team at Merit Systems is focused on reducing the friction in the last mile and growing the pie. We expect automated incentives for code contributions to hit escape velocity soon. Stay posted for more details.

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The zeitgeist is circling back

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July Roadmap Update TL;DR: Jolt is faster, simpler, and more usable than ever. Huge shoutout to the contributors who made this happen!

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It's time to build (verifiable compute). Jolt will support many different zkVM configurations in a unified codebase. OS contributors accelerate Jolt's development but we can parallelize these efforts further. Reach out if you want to build the core infra of the future.

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Frame by @tom-major

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Jolt has a ton of low hanging fruit waiting for the right harvester. We're teeing these up in Github issues and we'll regularly refresh. Great way to get your feet wet with ZK and play a role in the impending revolution. Examples below.

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We're finally releasing Jolt Alpha – the world's fastest zkVM. Jolt is fully open source. Always has been and always will be. zkVMs are the closest I've seen to algorithmic magic and I believe they'll allow us to deliver on the promises of web3.

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Anybody know the expected conversion rate on the new Chipotle points system?

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Cholesterol is big health propaganda — if you’re not butter maxxing you’re falling behind *none of above should be taken as health advice*

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“yes, I’ll take a whole cow milk, maximum fat latte, thanks”

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The Github talent team managed to hit the same repos as the Binance airdrop scams. Inside job??

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