0.59.0-alpha · core 2026-09-16

Sustenance via Sponsorship in the open-source playbook. How the money moves (GitHub Sponsors, Open Collective, Patreon/Ko-fi, Tidelift, direct corporate), persona-based tiers, Sponsorware, and honest numbers (SerenityOS, komorebi, Vue.js, TanStack).
Education as a Moat in the open-source playbook. Screencasts, courses, in-company workshops, and certification as revenue that deepens brand, community, and curation — with the content-treadmill and docs-SEO (Tailwind) caveats.
Combining Models in the open-source playbook. Context-gated mix suggestion (project type, audience, distribution, team, enterprise surface) with starter mixes per archetype, two new experiments, a worked mix-choice example, and four new edge cases.
Research First in the marketplace playbook. First stelow-product-* consumer of the shared web-research contract: host search for market facts and comparables, last30days as recency check on shortlisted tactics, skipped when context is supplied. Research step in the worked example plus a no-context edge case.