A brass-gold coin engraved with code brackets falling through the slot of a transparent glass piggy bank filled with water; in the water's reflection the coin's face shows a dollar sign, with earlier coins resting at the bottom of the jar

22 forks, none flowing back

A short build log about a feature I never expected to write, leading to musings about why an open source PR is now a donation in two currencies, and what an agentic OSS economy looks like once the friction collapses. Like most of the readers in my bubble right now, I was wiring up with Claude Code a personal CRM that reads, among other sources, my WhatsApp messages. The Skill was working (markdown wrapping a third-party Go CLI built on whatsmeow, send tested end-to-end), and then I asked it for the chat history. 20 chats returned: I have hundreds. ...

May 7, 2026 · 10 min · Michele (Mik) Ruberl