# Andrew Nesbitt

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The world of open source metadata (Changelog Interviews #665)

Andrew Nesbitt builds tools and open datasets to support, sustain, and secure critical digital infrastructure. He’s been exploring the world of open source metadata for over a decade. First with libraries.io and now with ecosyste.ms, which tracks over 12 million packages, 287 million repos, 24.5 bi…

Package management challenges with Andrew Nesbitt

Josh welcomes back Andrew Nesbitt to discuss some recent blog posts he wrote about the challenges of new ecosystems as well as challenges of no ecosystems like C. There aren't very many people who look at multiple ecosystems in the way Andrew does. He has thoughts on why it's so hard to create a ne…

Explorers Podcast: Australian Mines (ASX:AUZ)

In this episode Barry chats to Andrew Nesbitt, CEO of Australian Mines (ASX:AUZ) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 289: Courtney Miller on Maintainer Burnout and Software Abandonment

Guest Courtney Miller Panelist Richard Littauer Show Notes In this episode of Sustain, Richard welcomes back Courtney Miller to unpack her PhD research on one of open source’s most overlooked problems: what happens when widely used software is abandoned. Courtney explains why abandonment…

Episode 289: Courtney Miller on Maintainer Burnout and Software Abandonment

Guest Courtney Miller Panelist Richard Littauer Show Notes In this episode of Sustain, Richard welcomes back Courtney Miller to unpack her PhD research on one of open source’s most overlooked problems: what happens when widely used software is abandoned. Courtney explains why abandonment…

Episode 290: Andrew Nesbitt on AI, Transitive Dependencies, and the New Open Source Security Crunch

At UN Open Source Week in New York, Richard hosts a short, on-the-fly Sustain mini-episode from IBM’s offices with Andrew Nesbitt of Ecosyste.ms, a registry-of-registries built from dependency data across 300 million repositories. Nesbitt explains how that data is being used to prioritize security …

Episode 290: Andrew Nesbitt on AI, Transitive Dependencies, and the New Open Source Security Crunch

At UN Open Source Week in New York, Richard hosts a short, on-the-fly Sustain mini-episode from IBM’s offices with Andrew Nesbitt of Ecosyste.ms, a registry-of-registries built from dependency data across 300 million repositories. Nesbitt explains how that data is being used to prioritize security …

Turning AI into the Ultimate Open Source Maintainer Power Tool with Michael Winser

In this episode of What’s in the SOSS?, host CRob welcomes back open source security champion Michael Winser to reflect on Alpha-Omega’s spectacular milestone of surpassing $20 million in security grants. Michael breaks down how their mission has evolved from simply chasing bugs to acting as a cata…

#557: Security of everything at PyCon 2026

Security has always been the vegetables of software. Everyone agrees it matters, and somehow it never quite makes it onto the plate. At PyCon US this year, that changed. For the first time ever, security got its own dedicated, day-long track, one of just two at the whole conference, sitting right n…

TMiR 2026-08: Release candidate season; is that an asteroid hitting web educators?

Transcript and URLs 𐄁 Creators & Guests Mark Erikson - Host Carl Vitullo - Producer ★ Support this podcast ★ Reply on Bluesky (00:00) - tmir-2026-08 (00:55) - New releases (01:02) - Waku 1.0 (RC) (03:01) - Preact 11.0.0-rc.1 (03:56) - Mobx 7.0 (04:32) - Next 16.3 (06:55) - React …