Thoughts on “Makers and Takers” by Dries Buytaert

I have to agree with Buytaert, that extreme takers turn makers into takers. Thus, hurting the open source project in the process. A way to avoid the imbalance of makers and takers, Buyaert suggests applying centralization, privitazation, and self-governance to open source projects. I don’t necessarily agree with applying privitazation to open source as such a model could lock out other potential investors.

Next on Next.js

• May 6, 5:00 p.m.

Shania made a PR, which fixed typos that were giving us OverWriteErrors and UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning.

• May 6, 2020 8:30 p.m.

Chi Shing made a PR, which added our seed data into our MongoDB cluster and wrote instructions of the process.

• May 3-6, 2020

I completed the homepage for our pet care application and submitted a PR to Hunter/Next.js. In the homepage, I included pet cards that displays a pet’s image, owner, and likes. I was able to display the pet’s info by using a package called isomorphic-unfetch, which allows users to fetch input and update/add data from a database such as MongoDB.

• May 7, 2020 @4:00 p.m.

Liulan alerted me that I had given our pet seed data a broken link. I promptly fixed the broken link to my dog’s photo on wikimedia commons and edited my dog’s dislikes.