From toxic contamination fears in Altadena to declining student learning and the Colorado River's water crisis, UCLA researchers and experts are confronting the challenges facing our communities.

10K followers on GitHub. Thank you all. It's been 13 years since I first touched open source as a college student learning to code. What started as curiosity became one of the most rewarding parts of my life. I never treated it as work. It was always something fun, something worth showing up for, day after day, commit after commit. Over time, my six pinned projects grew into a little family. Kaku, Waza, Kami, Mole, Pake, MiaoYan. A terminal, a skill set, a typesetter, a cleaner, a wrapper, and a writing app. Different purposes, same philosophy: anything added dilutes everything else. Keep it simple, keep it useful, cut everything that doesn't matter. A special thank you to every sponsor who put real support behind these projects. Open source runs on time and energy, and your generosity keeps it going. It means more than you know. Open source is a culture worth keeping alive. Stay curious, keep sharing, keep talking to each other. Here's to the next 13.