François Best

“Open-source is dead”, according to X/Twitter. After all, why would we need to install tons of dependencies (with vulnerabilities and supply chain attacks ramping up), when our AI agents can re-implement everything for us?To be fair, rumours of its death have been strongly exaggerated: the world still needs open-source more than ever. But the role of OSS maintainers is changing. From floods of AI slop PRs to newfound superpowers with fine-tuned agentic workflows to help with triage and maintenance, what does the job of maintainers look like at the age of AI?

There are many ways to manage state in modern React applications, but the URL itself is a powerful hidden state manager that’s often overlooked.This talk introduces `nuqs`, a library that simplifies URL state management in React. We’ll explore the benefits this approach: shareability, history navigation, and declarative client-server interaction.Through a live demo, you’ll learn how to migrate from React.useState to nuqs’ useQueryState while we navigate concepts like client-only vs server-aware search parameters. We’ll also cover good practices for type-safe, pretty URLs, and how to avoid common pitfalls such as browser rate limits and URL size constraints.If you’ve ever wondered what state belongs in the URL, and how to scale it, this talk will give you the answers.