Visual Studio turns 25, new ideas for supporting open source, and of course…NFTs

<p>The team pays tribute to Microsoft’s <a href="https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/">Visual Studio</a>, an IDE and source code editor that turns 25 this month.</p><p>Read <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2022/Feb/23/support-open-source/">Simon Willison’s article</a> on how companies can financially support the open-source contributors they rely on. </p><p>Learn more about open source’s diversity problem, and how to address it, <a href="https://blog.container-solutions.com/wtf-is-wrong-with-open-source-communities">here</a> and <a href="https://www.infoworld.com/article/3620290/open-sources-diversity-problem.html">here</a>.</p><p>Why are K-pop NFTs so unpopular with fans? <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/12/nft-kpop-environmental-problems/621091/"><i>The Atlantic</i></a><i> </i>digs in.</p><p>ICYMI: Listen to our conversation with HashiCorp cofounder Mitchell Hashimoto: <a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/02/04/moving-from-ceo-back-to-ic-a-chat-with-mitchell-hashimoto-on-his-love-for-code-ep-412/">Moving from CEO back to IC</a>.</p>