{"@attributes":{"version":"2.0"},"channel":{"title":"Hunter Wittenborn","link":"https:\/\/hunterwittenborn.com\/","description":"Recent content on Hunter Wittenborn","generator":"Hugo -- 0.158.0","language":"en-us","lastBuildDate":"Fri, 21 Nov 2025 12:00:00 -0500","item":[{"title":"Stepping Back from Open Source","link":"https:\/\/hunterwittenborn.com\/blog\/stepping-back-from-open-source\/","pubDate":"Fri, 21 Nov 2025 12:00:00 -0500","guid":"https:\/\/hunterwittenborn.com\/blog\/stepping-back-from-open-source\/","description":"<p>I wanted to take a moment to write a post that I&rsquo;ve been thinking about for a while. If you follow my work, you&rsquo;ve likely noticed that I haven&rsquo;t been around as much lately. I believe in being transparent with the community, so I wanted to explain where I&rsquo;m at and what this means for my projects.<\/p>\n<p>The unfortunate reality is that I simply don&rsquo;t have the time to contribute at this current time (and in the foreseeable future). I&rsquo;ve loved working in the open source space, but right now, I simply don&rsquo;t have the capacity to maintain my projects at the level they deserve.<\/p>"},{"title":"Claiming Victory with AI: Automatic Social Media Marketing","link":"https:\/\/hunterwittenborn.com\/blog\/claiming-victory-with-ai-automatic-social-media-marketing\/","pubDate":"Fri, 28 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/hunterwittenborn.com\/blog\/claiming-victory-with-ai-automatic-social-media-marketing\/","description":"<p>Today wraps up the completion of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uah.edu\/business\/orgs\/24-hour-challenge\">24-Hour Challenge<\/a> at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, where our team (skillfully named the &ldquo;Chicken Bakes&rdquo;) successfully managed to pull in a 1st-place victory over the 21 teams we competed with &#x1f973;<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&rsquo;t have made it through this competition without help from the <em>amazing<\/em> people I had the honor to team up with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Brandon Heng:<\/strong> Your programming skills and API research brought us miles ahead to finishing our product<\/li>\n<li><strong>Karlie Sikorski:<\/strong> Your leadership, product design, and UI\/UX skills ensured we had a product that people <em>loved<\/em> using from beginning to end<\/li>\n<li><strong>Madison Fama:<\/strong> Your finance and business expertise ensured we made a product that can properly scale and grow to countless heights<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also want to give a shout-out to all the teams that we competed with! We were <em>far<\/em> from the only team to bring highly-innovative ideas to showcase, and I know we all demonstrated the dedication and skillsets to bring so much potential to life.<\/p>"},{"title":"The Mixed Emotions of Working in Open Source","link":"https:\/\/hunterwittenborn.com\/blog\/the-mixed-emotions-of-working-in-open-source\/","pubDate":"Thu, 08 Jun 2023 03:29:54 -0500","guid":"https:\/\/hunterwittenborn.com\/blog\/the-mixed-emotions-of-working-in-open-source\/","description":"<h2 id=\"when-open-source-is-great\">When open source is great<\/h2>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve been a developer and maintainer in the open source world for just over two years now, and I&rsquo;ve got to say that I don&rsquo;t think there&rsquo;s much better of an ecosystem that you can be in as a developer\/maintainer. Open-source simply <em>encourages<\/em> so much that makes project development so nice to be in:<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"issue-reporting\">Issue reporting<\/h3>\n<p>Having your users report issues on your project is trivial, and things like GitHub make hopping in on issues as simple as opening the issue up and making a comment. It&rsquo;s extremely easy to toss ideas around with fellow users, and being able to know what&rsquo;s going on is an amazing place to be in.<\/p>"}]}}