Hunter Wittenborn

Stepping Back from Open Source

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 12:00:00 -0500

I wanted to take a moment to write a post that I’ve been thinking about for a while. If you follow my work, you’ve likely noticed that I haven’t been around as much lately. I believe in being transparent with the community, so I wanted to explain where I’m at and what this means for my projects.

The unfortunate reality is that I simply don’t have the time to contribute at this current time (and in the foreseeable future). I’ve loved working in the open source space, but right now, I simply don’t have the capacity to maintain my projects at the level they deserve.

Claiming Victory with AI: Automatic Social Media Marketing

Fri, 28 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Today wraps up the completion of the 24-Hour Challenge at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, where our team (skillfully named the “Chicken Bakes”) successfully managed to pull in a 1st-place victory over the 21 teams we competed with 🥳

I couldn’t have made it through this competition without help from the amazing people I had the honor to team up with:

Brandon Heng: Your programming skills and API research brought us miles ahead to finishing our product
Karlie Sikorski: Your leadership, product design, and UI/UX skills ensured we had a product that people loved using from beginning to end
Madison Fama: Your finance and business expertise ensured we made a product that can properly scale and grow to countless heights

I also want to give a shout-out to all the teams that we competed with! We were far 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.

The Mixed Emotions of Working in Open Source

Thu, 08 Jun 2023 03:29:54 -0500

When open source is great

I’ve been a developer and maintainer in the open source world for just over two years now, and I’ve got to say that I don’t think there’s much better of an ecosystem that you can be in as a developer/maintainer. Open-source simply encourages so much that makes project development so nice to be in:

Issue reporting

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’s extremely easy to toss ideas around with fellow users, and being able to know what’s going on is an amazing place to be in.