Maurits Meester

Freelance headless e-commerce developer (Magento2, Shopware6, VueJS, ReactJS & NuxtJS)

[Maurits Meester @mmeester]

Where can I file my feature request for @diabrowser? One of the things I still really miss about Dia compared to Arc is the "swipe to switch between profiles" in the sidebar for example

[Maurits Meester @mmeester]

@nicolasmertens @jimstewartson Still a big problem though

[Maurits Meester @mmeester]

@Atinux @vercel What a time to be alive!!

[Maurits Meester @mmeester]

@jh3yy I expect this to be the nr. 1 cause of burnouts in the following months / years, expectation of delivering fast instead of delivering thought through high quality

[Samay @Samaytwt]

Unpopular opinion: "AI makes everyone a developer" is true the same way "cameras makes everyone a photographer"

[Noah @NoahKingJr]

Me to Claude: "Make no mistakes. DO NOT HALLUCINATE. YOU ARE AN EXPERT SOFTWARE ENGINEER"

[Maurits Meester @mmeester]

@wesbos Stop using axios is also a good advice

[Maurits Meester @mmeester]

@timanrebel @heyastraio I also doubt the seniority in dev skills quite often, it still feels like correcting interns

[Maurits Meester @mmeester]

@MayaShavin @marcba I fully agree, it feels like I’m losing my inventor and discoverer mojo, missing the eureka moments solving things and understanding them

[Maurits Meester @mmeester]

Interesting take, can’t say I disagree, but i do wonder if this will be the future…

[Marc @MarcJSchmidt]

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.

[Maurits Meester @mmeester]

@sabinedewitte Misschien is je usecase wel te niche voor banken om daar echt in te stappen

[Maurits Meester @mmeester]

@sabinedewitte Misschien is dat ook wel zo, uiteindelijk is tikkie voor consumenten natuurlijk ook gratis, wie weet komen ze ook met een goede opvolger als wero globally available is.

[Maurits Meester @mmeester]

Safari is the new internet explorer

[Una 🇺🇦 @Una]

🎉 And we're live! 🎉

We just launched CSS Wrapped 2025: our annual recap of all things CSS & web UI that landed in Chrome over the course of the year. 🚀

This is a big one! We highlighted 22 new features to help you build better on the web.

Check out: https://t.co/bdqB5Y4smN

[Maurits Meester @mmeester]

Even though I’m not a fan of the banners I wonder if this really is a good thing?

[Tuomas Artman @artman]

Europe is so back.

No more cookie banners, if member states approve of the proposal.

https://t.co/StqRnJHAqw

[Maurits Meester @mmeester]

@wesbos AFAIK most of these are build on lightweight sdks like https://t.co/am7yC6Adxb

[Maurits Meester @mmeester]

@erwblo @AlexanderNL Het is wel jammer dat hoesten en proesten in openbare ruimtes weer als normaal beschouwd wordt moet ik zeggen.

[Maurits Meester @mmeester]

@DennisAdriaans is your project https://t.co/DCCSAp2YGX deprecated or still something you are working on?

[Maurits Meester @mmeester]

Tell me you’re old, without telling me you’re old #web #developers