My overgrown joke is now a second edition: "Thanklessly Maintaining Open Source Software". One maintainer's year, from first star to archive button.
Kindle, $2.56. That's 0x100 cents, one hexadecimal dollar.
My overgrown joke is now a second edition: "Thanklessly Maintaining Open Source Software". One maintainer's year, from first star to archive button.
Kindle, $2.56. That's 0x100 cents, one hexadecimal dollar.
@ulisesgascon.com🫶 As part of the @openjsf.org #CNA, we also want to encourage #maintainers, in our projects and beyond, to give themselves permission to take a break.
#Burnout is real for #maintainers, especially in #security work.
@slatesource.comSix hundred lines of C. Four of the five algorithms were written by somebody other than the author, who describes the job as mostly saying no.
Credit and accountability are the same list read in two directions.
