Maintainers Anonymous Transistor (https://transistor.fm) https://feeds.transistor.fm/maintainers-anonymous How can we work together to achieve a common goal: whether in our code, cities, or infrastructure? Henry Zhu chats with fellow maintainers across all disciplines of life on their process, motivations, and struggles as they learn in public. © All rights reserved d17b2f09-e1ed-5b6f-90cb-630492129753 no Support this podcast en Tue, 03 May 2022 10:44:03 -0400 Thu, 30 Nov 2023 02:03:46 -0500 https://maintainersanonymous.com https://images.transistor.fm/file/transistor/images/show/1719/full_1554926632-artwork.jpg Maintainers Anonymous https://maintainersanonymous.com serial Henry Zhu How can we work together to achieve a common goal: whether in our code, cities, or infrastructure? Henry Zhu chats with fellow maintainers across all disciplines of life on their process, motivations, and struggles as they learn in public. How can we work together to achieve a common goal: whether in our code, cities, or infrastructure. open source, maintainer, governance, sustainability Henry Zhu No No 1: Omnigamer on Speedrunning as Research 1 1 1: Omnigamer on Speedrunning as Research full f699eb6c-e9f7-4dc6-8a8b-0bf35ccc132f https://share.transistor.fm/s/8d4a63a5 What's beyond simply beating a video game? Eric "Omnigamer" Koziel joins Henry to chat about speedruning as an optimization problem (code golf), game knowledge as discovery, access as a result of technology, issues of game preservation/archival, coordination issues, obscure/popular games, versioning/patches, and more! (recorded in January. Since then, Eric has a new book out, Speedrun Science) Transcript: https://maintainersanonymous.com/speedrunning

Eric: https://twitter.com/TheOmnigamer
Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad

★ Support this podcast ★ ]]> What's beyond simply beating a video game? Eric "Omnigamer" Koziel joins Henry to chat about speedruning as an optimization problem (code golf), game knowledge as discovery, access as a result of technology, issues of game preservation/archival, coordination issues, obscure/popular games, versioning/patches, and more! (recorded in January. Since then, Eric has a new book out, Speedrun Science) Transcript: https://maintainersanonymous.com/speedrunning

Eric: https://twitter.com/TheOmnigamer
Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad

★ Support this podcast ★ ]]> Wed, 10 Apr 2019 02:10:00 -0400 Henry Zhu Henry Zhu 5206 What's beyond simply beating a video game? Eric "Omnigamer" Koziel joins Henry to chat about speedruning as an optimization problem (code golf), game knowledge as discovery, access as a result of technology, issues of game preservation/archival, coordination issues, obscure/popular games, versioning/patches, and more! (recorded in January. Since then, Eric has a new book out, Speedrun Science) Transcript: https://maintainersanonymous.com/speedrunning What's beyond simply beating a video game? Eric "Omnigamer" Koziel joins Henry to chat about speedruning as an optimization problem (code golf), game knowledge as discovery, access as a result of technology, issues of game preservation/archival, coordinat open source, maintainer, governance, sustainability No 2: Stephanie Hurlburt on Boundaries 2 2 2: Stephanie Hurlburt on Boundaries full 9ad0914f-607b-4f14-a5ed-0ff711d71cdc https://share.transistor.fm/s/30b0ab32 How is business development relevant to open source? Stephanie Hurlburt (Binomial) joins Henry to chat about understanding learnings from success, setting health boundaries, what "networking" really means, conversations/pitching, and more! (recorded in February) Transcript: https://maintainersanonymous.com/boundaries

Stephanie: https://twitter.com/sehurlburt
Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad

★ Support this podcast ★ ]]> How is business development relevant to open source? Stephanie Hurlburt (Binomial) joins Henry to chat about understanding learnings from success, setting health boundaries, what "networking" really means, conversations/pitching, and more! (recorded in February) Transcript: https://maintainersanonymous.com/boundaries

Stephanie: https://twitter.com/sehurlburt
Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad

★ Support this podcast ★ ]]> Fri, 12 Apr 2019 10:30:00 -0400 Henry Zhu Henry Zhu 2941 How is business development relevant to open source? Stephanie Hurlburt (Binomial) joins Henry to chat about understanding learnings from success, setting health boundaries, what "networking" really means, conversations/pitching, and more! (recorded in February) Transcript: https://maintainersanonymous.com/boundaries/ How is business development relevant to open source? Stephanie Hurlburt (Binomial) joins Henry to chat about understanding learnings from success, setting health boundaries, what "networking" really means, conversations/pitching, and more! (recorded in Fe open source, maintainer, governance, sustainability No 3: Stephanie Hurlburt on the Perception of Value 3 3 3: Stephanie Hurlburt on the Perception of Value full c73e7d61-ab4a-4d7a-9aa1-c542ada774e9 https://share.transistor.fm/s/6f127e1c What do we treasure? Stephanie Hurlburt (Binomial) joins again to chat about inherent vs. perceived value, success breeding success, psychology around hiding information, code versus money, a holistic/explicit view of business, everything as marketing, confidence, money as idolatry, the nature of giving, our biases around people/status, people want to see you succeed, communicating how people can help you. (recorded in February) Transcript: https://maintainersanonymous.com/value

Stephanie: https://twitter.com/sehurlburt
Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad

★ Support this podcast ★ ]]> What do we treasure? Stephanie Hurlburt (Binomial) joins again to chat about inherent vs. perceived value, success breeding success, psychology around hiding information, code versus money, a holistic/explicit view of business, everything as marketing, confidence, money as idolatry, the nature of giving, our biases around people/status, people want to see you succeed, communicating how people can help you. (recorded in February) Transcript: https://maintainersanonymous.com/value

Stephanie: https://twitter.com/sehurlburt
Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad

★ Support this podcast ★ ]]> Fri, 19 Apr 2019 11:30:00 -0400 Henry Zhu Henry Zhu 3274 What do we treasure? Stephanie Hurlburt (Binomial) joins again to chat about inherent vs. perceived value, success breeding success, psychology around hiding information, code versus money, a holistic/explicit view of business, everything as marketing, confidence, money as idolatry, the nature of giving, our biases around people/status, people want to see you succeed, communicating how people can help you. (recorded in February) Transcript: https://maintainersanonymous.com/value What do we treasure? Stephanie Hurlburt (Binomial) joins again to chat about inherent vs. perceived value, success breeding success, psychology around hiding information, code versus money, a holistic/explicit view of business, everything as marketing, co open source, maintainer, governance, sustainability No 4: Mikeal Rogers on Getting Old in Open Source 4 4 4: Mikeal Rogers on Getting Old in Open Source full 30cd96f2-2cfc-4ffb-9014-cc725b7cd7c5 https://share.transistor.fm/s/f9193da2 How old is open source anyway? Mikeal Rogers (Protocol Labs) joins Henry in talking about making friends through podcasting, conference organizing as maintainer-ship, patronage and fundraising, old/new school open source, deprecating packages and ecosystem health, new ideas and becoming a maintainer by being the "first", and parenting! Transcript: https://maintainersanonymous.com/getting-old/

Mikeal: https://twitter.com/mikeal
Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad

★ Support this podcast ★ ]]> How old is open source anyway? Mikeal Rogers (Protocol Labs) joins Henry in talking about making friends through podcasting, conference organizing as maintainer-ship, patronage and fundraising, old/new school open source, deprecating packages and ecosystem health, new ideas and becoming a maintainer by being the "first", and parenting! Transcript: https://maintainersanonymous.com/getting-old/

Mikeal: https://twitter.com/mikeal
Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad

★ Support this podcast ★ ]]> Mon, 29 Apr 2019 15:00:00 -0400 Henry Zhu Henry Zhu 4981 How old is open source anyway? Mikeal Rogers (Protocol Labs) joins Henry in talking about making friends through podcasting, conference organizing as maintainer-ship, patronage and fundraising, old/new school open source, deprecating packages and ecosystem health, new ideas and becoming a maintainer by being the "first", and parenting! Transcript: https://maintainersanonymous.com/getting-old/ How old is open source anyway? Mikeal Rogers (Protocol Labs) joins Henry in talking about making friends through podcasting, conference organizing as maintainer-ship, patronage and fundraising, old/new school open source, deprecating packages and ecosyste open source, maintainer, governance, sustainability No 5: Evan You on Funding One's Freedom 5 5 5: Evan You on Funding One's Freedom full ad05490f-fdaa-4461-af96-52913f8b3f7a https://share.transistor.fm/s/b18b6287 How can we be free? Evan You (Vue.js) chats with Henry about the complexities of funding people vs. projects, non-monetary perks of oss, Patreon potentially just a payment processor, the honing in on the uniqueness of open source (being free, flexible, organic/emergent, self-motivated, distributed/remote), full time not being for everyone, the importance of side projects and off-pressure moments and just having fun. Transcript: https://maintainersanonymous.com/freedom

Evan: https://twitter.com/youyuxi
Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad

★ Support this podcast ★ ]]> How can we be free? Evan You (Vue.js) chats with Henry about the complexities of funding people vs. projects, non-monetary perks of oss, Patreon potentially just a payment processor, the honing in on the uniqueness of open source (being free, flexible, organic/emergent, self-motivated, distributed/remote), full time not being for everyone, the importance of side projects and off-pressure moments and just having fun. Transcript: https://maintainersanonymous.com/freedom

Evan: https://twitter.com/youyuxi
Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad

★ Support this podcast ★ ]]> Mon, 06 May 2019 17:05:00 -0400 Henry Zhu Henry Zhu 5175 How can we be free? Evan You (Vue.js) chats with Henry about the complexities of funding people vs. projects, non-monetary perks of oss, Patreon potentially just a payment processor, the honing in on the uniqueness of open source (being free, flexible, organic/emergent, self-motivated, distributed/remote), full time not being for everyone, the importance of side projects and off-pressure moments and just having fun. Transcript: https://maintainersanonymous.com/freedom How can we be free? Evan You (Vue.js) chats with Henry about the complexities of funding people vs. projects, non-monetary perks of oss, Patreon potentially just a payment processor, the honing in on the uniqueness of open source (being free, flexible, or open source, maintainer, governance, sustainability No 6: Jory Burson on the Significance of Standards 6 6 6: Jory Burson on the Significance of Standards full 7c8bd7f6-8856-4a84-98b8-dfb050f148c3 https://share.transistor.fm/s/161de068 Why should we standardize? Jory Burson (Bocoup) joins Henry to talk open source and standards: what they are, why we need them, what should be standardized, lifecycles of standards, past/future accessibility of participating in the process, and more!

Jory: https://twitter.com/jorydotcom
Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad

★ Support this podcast ★ ]]> Why should we standardize? Jory Burson (Bocoup) joins Henry to talk open source and standards: what they are, why we need them, what should be standardized, lifecycles of standards, past/future accessibility of participating in the process, and more!

Jory: https://twitter.com/jorydotcom
Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad

★ Support this podcast ★ ]]> Fri, 24 May 2019 09:00:00 -0400 Henry Zhu Henry Zhu 3883 Why should we standardize? Jory Burson (Bocoup) joins Henry to talk open source and standards: what they are, why we need them, what should be standardized, lifecycles of standards, past/future accessibility of participating in the process, and more! Why should we standardize? Jory Burson (Bocoup) joins Henry to talk open source and standards: what they are, why we need them, what should be standardized, lifecycles of standards, past/future accessibility of participating in the process, and more! open source, maintainer, governance, sustainability No 7: Philip Gee On Growing Old with the Web 7 7 7: Philip Gee On Growing Old with the Web full 838e483a-441c-4d0b-a49d-ed078c53fc63 https://share.transistor.fm/s/b4d35677 Do we learn in a vacuum, or does it involve our whole selves? Philip Gee (UC San Diego) joins Henry to chat about maintaining a web presence since its beginnings. We discuss some of the points made in Nadia's post on ideas carrying us forward, even beyond what we are known for, the greater intimacy of podcasts and vlogs, attaching ideas to people, science as subjective vs. purely objective and in community, knowledge as opening up possibilities, embracing whimsy and being random (haircut podcasts), embracing spontaneity and cities, understanding our bodies and mortality and it's relation to our digital lives and rest.

Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad

Show Notes:

Tyranny of Ideas (Nadia)

★ Support this podcast ★ ]]> Do we learn in a vacuum, or does it involve our whole selves? Philip Gee (UC San Diego) joins Henry to chat about maintaining a web presence since its beginnings. We discuss some of the points made in Nadia's post on ideas carrying us forward, even beyond what we are known for, the greater intimacy of podcasts and vlogs, attaching ideas to people, science as subjective vs. purely objective and in community, knowledge as opening up possibilities, embracing whimsy and being random (haircut podcasts), embracing spontaneity and cities, understanding our bodies and mortality and it's relation to our digital lives and rest.

Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad

Show Notes:

Tyranny of Ideas (Nadia)

★ Support this podcast ★ ]]> Fri, 31 May 2019 11:15:00 -0400 Henry Zhu Henry Zhu 3811 Do we learn in a vacuum, or does it involve our whole selves? Philip Gee (UC San Diego) joins Henry to chat about maintaining a web presence since its beginnings. We discuss some of the points made in Nadia's post on ideas carrying us forward, even beyond what we are known for, the greater intimacy of podcasts and vlogs, attaching ideas to people, science as subjective vs. purely objective and in community, knowledge as opening up possibilities, embracing whimsy and being random (haircut podcasts), embracing spontaneity and cities, understanding our bodies and mortality and it's relation to our digital lives and rest. Do we learn in a vacuum, or does it involve our whole selves? Philip Gee (UC San Diego) joins Henry to chat about maintaining a web presence since its beginnings. We discuss some of the points made in Nadia's post on ideas carrying us forward, even beyond open source, maintainer, governance, sustainability No 8: Anthony Giovannetti on Mastery and Learning through Games 8 8 8: Anthony Giovannetti on Mastery and Learning through Games full 33f74cbe-ff56-4012-80b3-8d4b29d984f8 https://share.transistor.fm/s/f93ba53d Why play or even make games? Anthony Giovannetti (MegaCrit) joins Henry to chat building video game Slay the Spire with the community. They discuss games an a interactive medium, immersion, player incentives/tradeoffs, emergent gameplay through roguelikes (procedural generation, permadeath), player mastery/difficulty, Steam early access, user feedback, importance of testing, data-informed balancing, and player accessibility driving features via streaming, translations, and UX.

Anthony (MegaCrit): https://twitter.com/megacrit
Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad

★ Support this podcast ★ ]]> Why play or even make games? Anthony Giovannetti (MegaCrit) joins Henry to chat building video game Slay the Spire with the community. They discuss games an a interactive medium, immersion, player incentives/tradeoffs, emergent gameplay through roguelikes (procedural generation, permadeath), player mastery/difficulty, Steam early access, user feedback, importance of testing, data-informed balancing, and player accessibility driving features via streaming, translations, and UX.

Anthony (MegaCrit): https://twitter.com/megacrit
Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad

★ Support this podcast ★ ]]> Fri, 21 Jun 2019 15:00:00 -0400 Henry Zhu Henry Zhu 3394 Why play or even make games? Anthony Giovannetti (MegaCrit) joins Henry to chat building the video game Slay the Spire with the community. They discuss games an a interactive medium, immersion, player incentives/tradeoffs, emergent gameplay through roguelikes (procedural generation, permadeath), player mastery/difficulty, Steam early access, user feedback, importance of testing, data-informed balancing, and player accessibility driving features via streaming, translations, and UX. Why play or even make games? Anthony Giovannetti (MegaCrit) joins Henry to chat building the video game Slay the Spire with the community. They discuss games an a interactive medium, immersion, player incentives/tradeoffs, emergent gameplay through roguel open source, maintainer, governance, sustainability No 9: Wendy Hagenmaier on Preserving the (Digital) Past 9 9 9: Wendy Hagenmaier on Preserving the (Digital) Past full 9a07fd5f-9edc-43be-8467-9281685bfeed https://share.transistor.fm/s/68b9a175 In our pursuit to create products for the future do we neglect the past? Wendy Hagenmaier (Georgia Tech) discusses with Henry on the importance of maintaining our history, especially in software itself. They chat all about archival: what is it, what should concern an archivist, differences b/t physical/digital, artifacts/process, value/worth of things to preserve, struggles, places where archival can happen (personal, libraries, companies, museums), and our shared responsibility and knowledge.

Wendy: https://www.library.gatech.edu/wendy-hagenmaier
Software Preservation Network: https://www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org/fcop/
Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad

★ Support this podcast ★ ]]> In our pursuit to create products for the future do we neglect the past? Wendy Hagenmaier (Georgia Tech) discusses with Henry on the importance of maintaining our history, especially in software itself. They chat all about archival: what is it, what should concern an archivist, differences b/t physical/digital, artifacts/process, value/worth of things to preserve, struggles, places where archival can happen (personal, libraries, companies, museums), and our shared responsibility and knowledge.

Wendy: https://www.library.gatech.edu/wendy-hagenmaier
Software Preservation Network: https://www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org/fcop/
Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad

★ Support this podcast ★ ]]> Mon, 08 Jul 2019 17:30:00 -0400 Henry Zhu Henry Zhu 2502 In our pursuit to create products for the future do we neglect the past? Wendy Hagenmaier (Georgia Tech) discusses with Henry on the importance of maintaining our history, especially in software itself. They chat all about archival: what is it, what should concern an archivist, differences b/t physical/digital, artifacts/process, value/worth of things to preserve, struggles, places where archival can happen (personal, libraries, companies, museums), and our shared responsibility and knowledge. In our pursuit to create products for the future do we neglect the past? Wendy Hagenmaier (Georgia Tech) discusses with Henry on the importance of maintaining our history, especially in software itself. They chat all about archival: what is it, what shoul open source, maintainer, governance, sustainability No 10: Jonathan Farbowitz on the Commitment to Infinite Uptime 10 10 10: Jonathan Farbowitz on the Commitment to Infinite Uptime full 9517b647-1afb-4294-9677-c313cc899ea0 https://share.transistor.fm/s/cde0eb06 How should we think about saving something forever? Jonathan Farbowitz (Guggenheim) continues the on-going discussion of software preservation with Henry in talking about the goals of museums, the hard (and maybe impossible) task of keeping something intact, norms and steps of conservation, comparing physical and digital artwork, the importance of authors in conserving a piece, emulation vs. language porting (rewrite), a discussion of legacy/dependencies/testing, and deprecations/breakages in environments/standards.

Jonathan: https://twitter.com/jfarbowitz
Guggenheim: https://twitter.com/Guggenheim
Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad

★ Support this podcast ★ ]]> How should we think about saving something forever? Jonathan Farbowitz (Guggenheim) continues the on-going discussion of software preservation with Henry in talking about the goals of museums, the hard (and maybe impossible) task of keeping something intact, norms and steps of conservation, comparing physical and digital artwork, the importance of authors in conserving a piece, emulation vs. language porting (rewrite), a discussion of legacy/dependencies/testing, and deprecations/breakages in environments/standards.

Jonathan: https://twitter.com/jfarbowitz
Guggenheim: https://twitter.com/Guggenheim
Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad

★ Support this podcast ★ ]]> Mon, 15 Jul 2019 12:00:00 -0400 Henry Zhu Henry Zhu 4522 How should we think about saving something forever? Jonathan Farbowitz (Guggenheim) continues the on-going discussion of software preservation with Henry in talking about the goals of museums, the hard (and maybe impossible) task of keeping something intact, the norms and steps of conservation, comparing physical and digital artwork, the importance of authors in conserving a piece, emulation vs. language porting (rewrites), a discussion about an art's "dependencies", possibly adding automated testing, and deprecations/breakages in environments/standards. Transcript and links at https://maintainersanonymous.com/conservation How should we think about saving something forever? Jonathan Farbowitz (Guggenheim) continues the on-going discussion of software preservation with Henry in talking about the goals of museums, the hard (and maybe impossible) task of keeping something inta open source, maintainer, governance, sustainability No 11: Maggie Appleton on Open Source as a Gift Economy 11 11 11: Maggie Appleton on Open Source as a Gift Economy full 330266ef-53ad-4eaf-8bc4-8b22cc06fdb5 https://share.transistor.fm/s/9d389287 Is the open source community a gift economy? What even is a gift? Maggie Appleton joins Henry to discuss open source as a gift economy (versus a market economy), why we participate in open source and exchange gifts, rituals and habits, patronage and crowdfunding, quantified self and disembodiment, our role in tech

Transcript at: https://maintainersanonymous.com/gift
Maggie: https://twitter.com/Mappletons
Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad

★ Support this podcast ★ ]]> Is the open source community a gift economy? What even is a gift? Maggie Appleton joins Henry to discuss open source as a gift economy (versus a market economy), why we participate in open source and exchange gifts, rituals and habits, patronage and crowdfunding, quantified self and disembodiment, our role in tech

Transcript at: https://maintainersanonymous.com/gift
Maggie: https://twitter.com/Mappletons
Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad

★ Support this podcast ★ ]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2020 13:00:00 -0500 Henry Zhu Henry Zhu 3328 Is the open source community a gift economy? What even is a gift? Maggie Appleton joins Henry to discuss open source as a gift economy (versus a market economy), why we participate in open source and exchange gifts, rituals and habits, patronage and crowdfunding, quantified self and disembodiment, our role in tech Transcript at: https://maintainersanonymous.com/gift Is the open source community a gift economy? What even is a gift? Maggie Appleton joins Henry to discuss open source as a gift economy (versus a market economy), why we participate in open source and exchange gifts, rituals and habits, patronage and crowd open source, maintainer, governance, sustainability No 12: Maggie Appleton on Embodiment Through Metaphors 12 12 12: Maggie Appleton on Embodiment Through Metaphors full 7006cb04-0c74-46b3-a238-76057b4d3ddf https://share.transistor.fm/s/33bb512b Wed, 13 May 2020 12:00:00 -0400 Henry Zhu Henry Zhu 3241 Is programming all digital/cerebral or do we still have embodied roots? How does this affect how we write, teach, and learn code? Maggie Appleton joins Henry to discuss everything metaphors (basically everything). We chat about mental models and abstraction, Polanyi, Cartesian dualism, auto ethnography, knowledge, cats! Transcript at: https://maintainersanonymous.com/metaphor Maggie: https://twitter.com/Mappletons Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad Is programming all digital/cerebral or do we still have embodied roots? How does this affect how we write, teach, and learn code? Maggie Appleton joins Henry to discuss everything metaphors (basically everything). We chat about mental models and abstracti open source, maintainer, governance, sustainability No 13: Jordan Scales on Nostalgia and Not Taking Yourself Too Seriously 13 13 13: Jordan Scales on Nostalgia and Not Taking Yourself Too Seriously full e9fe32e3-b04b-4879-85e5-505fef24bc4e https://share.transistor.fm/s/e7a1abae Why attempt to faithfully recreate the past? Jordan Scales joins Henry to chat about 98.css, design systems, being pixel perfect, accessibility, the Microsoft Windows User Experience reference manual, using VMs, MSPaint and Figma, whimsy and having fun with coding, creating satire at no one's expense, and even how Babel's Guy Fieri meme could of been Jeff Goldblum in another universe. Transcript: https://maintainersanonymous.com/nostalgia

Jordan: https://twitter.com/jdan
Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad

★ Support this podcast ★ ]]> Why attempt to faithfully recreate the past? Jordan Scales joins Henry to chat about 98.css, design systems, being pixel perfect, accessibility, the Microsoft Windows User Experience reference manual, using VMs, MSPaint and Figma, whimsy and having fun with coding, creating satire at no one's expense, and even how Babel's Guy Fieri meme could of been Jeff Goldblum in another universe. Transcript: https://maintainersanonymous.com/nostalgia

Jordan: https://twitter.com/jdan
Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad

★ Support this podcast ★ ]]> Tue, 26 May 2020 15:30:00 -0400 Henry Zhu Henry Zhu 4609 Why attempt to faithfully recreate the past? Jordan Scales joins Henry to chat about 98.css, design systems, being pixel perfect, accessibility, the Microsoft Windows User Experience reference manual, using VMs, MSPaint and Figma, whimsy and having fun with coding, creating satire at no one's expense, and even how Babel's Guy Fieri meme could of been Jeff Goldblum in another universe. Transcript: https://maintainersanonymous.com/nostalgia Jordan: https://twitter.com/jdan Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad Why attempt to faithfully recreate the past? Jordan Scales joins Henry to chat about 98.css, design systems, being pixel perfect, accessibility, the Microsoft Windows User Experience reference manual, using VMs, MSPaint and Figma, whimsy and having fun wi open source, maintainer, governance, sustainability Yes 14: Shawn Wang on Open Knowledge 14 14 14: Shawn Wang on Open Knowledge full 599b7402-1711-4b9a-b578-3606cf6410c7 https://share.transistor.fm/s/f15816d1 What does it mean to be code adjacent? Shawn Wang joins Henry to chat about not just open code but open thinking with his experience in community managing, the idea of tumbling, moderating /r/reactjs, starting the Svelete Society meetup, documenting and learning in public, being historians of our field, fresh notes vs. awesome lists, the meta language, and adoption curves. Transcript: https://maintainersanonymous.com/open-knowledge.

Shawn: https://twitter.com/swyx
Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad

Headings:

  • Intro: Tumbling as an Alternative to Community Manager 
  • Specific, Limited-term Maintainer Roles
  • Separation of Maintainer Concerns
  • Babel W18, like YC W18
  • Becoming a Moderator for /r/reactjs
  • Learning with "I Promise to Answer Every Question"
  • History and Memento Mori: A Time Before Git
  • Where's the Story of How Projects Get Started?
  • A Culture of "Document Yourself More"
  • Learning Gears: Explorer, Connector, Miner
  • Finding A Vision People Can Rally Around
  • Being Code Adjacent
  • Maybe We Need a JavaScript Community Manager
  • Cheat Sheets and Awesome Lists
  • Personalized Docs, Documentation Levels
  • Open Source Knowledge, Proof of Work
  • Twitter as a Permanent Hallway Track
  • Find the Intersection of Two Communities
  • Documenting Underlying Assumptions
  • "Fresh notes"
  • Starting a Meetup: Svelte Society
  • Keeping it Alive
  • Taking Part in Category Creation
  • The Meta Language
  • Parenting and Figuring Things Out
  • Not Everything Needs to be in Public
  • CSS 4: Does It Even Matter if No One Knows?
  • Adoption Curves: Focusing too much on the head
  • Removing the Learning Curve with Better Defaults
  • Philosophy of Technology
  • Spatial Software, The Mind
★ Support this podcast ★ ]]> What does it mean to be code adjacent? Shawn Wang joins Henry to chat about not just open code but open thinking with his experience in community managing, the idea of tumbling, moderating /r/reactjs, starting the Svelete Society meetup, documenting and learning in public, being historians of our field, fresh notes vs. awesome lists, the meta language, and adoption curves. Transcript: https://maintainersanonymous.com/open-knowledge.

Shawn: https://twitter.com/swyx
Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad

Headings:

  • Intro: Tumbling as an Alternative to Community Manager 
  • Specific, Limited-term Maintainer Roles
  • Separation of Maintainer Concerns
  • Babel W18, like YC W18
  • Becoming a Moderator for /r/reactjs
  • Learning with "I Promise to Answer Every Question"
  • History and Memento Mori: A Time Before Git
  • Where's the Story of How Projects Get Started?
  • A Culture of "Document Yourself More"
  • Learning Gears: Explorer, Connector, Miner
  • Finding A Vision People Can Rally Around
  • Being Code Adjacent
  • Maybe We Need a JavaScript Community Manager
  • Cheat Sheets and Awesome Lists
  • Personalized Docs, Documentation Levels
  • Open Source Knowledge, Proof of Work
  • Twitter as a Permanent Hallway Track
  • Find the Intersection of Two Communities
  • Documenting Underlying Assumptions
  • "Fresh notes"
  • Starting a Meetup: Svelte Society
  • Keeping it Alive
  • Taking Part in Category Creation
  • The Meta Language
  • Parenting and Figuring Things Out
  • Not Everything Needs to be in Public
  • CSS 4: Does It Even Matter if No One Knows?
  • Adoption Curves: Focusing too much on the head
  • Removing the Learning Curve with Better Defaults
  • Philosophy of Technology
  • Spatial Software, The Mind
★ Support this podcast ★ ]]> Wed, 02 Sep 2020 09:01:29 -0400 Henry Zhu Henry Zhu 3293 What does it mean to be code adjacent? Shawn Wang joins Henry to chat about not just open code but open thinking with his experience in community managing, the idea of tumbling, moderating /r/reactjs, starting the Svelete Society meetup, documenting and learning in public, being historians of our field, fresh notes vs. awesome lists, the meta language, and adoption curves. Transcript: https://maintainersanonymous.com/open-knowledge. Shawn: https://twitter.com/swyx Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad What does it mean to be code adjacent? Shawn Wang joins Henry to chat about not just open code but open thinking with his experience in community managing, the idea of tumbling, moderating /r/reactjs, starting the Svelete Society meetup, documenting and l open source, maintainer, governance, sustainability No 15: Philip Gee (#2) on Unlisting Yourself 15 15 15: Philip Gee (#2) on Unlisting Yourself full 7ab1c544-ed27-43c5-8a22-f0d9579cb6bb https://share.transistor.fm/s/f67a7f4c Why would you choose to leave the public internet on your own terms? Philip Gee joins Henry (for the 2nd time) to chat about his recent choice to make a minimal public web presence after being on the web for many years. We discuss the logistics of removing social media (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube), moving to longer forms of media (podcasts, essays, books), making introductory content, recognizing different stages of your career, being out of touch, freeing your mind for the next thing, not being ashamed of previous work, taking time to reflect, and friction. (recorded in May) Transcript: https://maintainersanonymous.com/unlisting.

Previous Episode: https://maintainersanonymous.com/growing-old
Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad

Headings:

  • "He took everything down!"
  • A Long Time Coming
  • Erasure: a minimal public web presence
  • Unlisting Yourself
  • When I was young, I was in a rock band
  • Naturally Transitioning Out
  • Tenure as a forcing function
  • High School Debut
  • Out of Touch
  • Ownership Over Our (Digital) Selves
  • Posting about Quitting
  • No One's Going to Cry
  • Making Introductory Content
  • More Beginners in a Growing Field
  • The Business of Patrons
  • Doing the Work vs. Funding It
  • Staying or Stepping Away
  • Seinfeld and Ending at the Top
  • Freeing Your Mind for the Next Thing
  • "It's all I've Known"
  • Graceful Degradation
  • A Time to Reflect
  • Acting on Our Beliefs
  • Quitting Should be Boring
  • Intentionality
  • We Are As Athletes
  • Adding Friction
★ Support this podcast ★ ]]> Why would you choose to leave the public internet on your own terms? Philip Gee joins Henry (for the 2nd time) to chat about his recent choice to make a minimal public web presence after being on the web for many years. We discuss the logistics of removing social media (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube), moving to longer forms of media (podcasts, essays, books), making introductory content, recognizing different stages of your career, being out of touch, freeing your mind for the next thing, not being ashamed of previous work, taking time to reflect, and friction. (recorded in May) Transcript: https://maintainersanonymous.com/unlisting.

Previous Episode: https://maintainersanonymous.com/growing-old
Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad

Headings:

  • "He took everything down!"
  • A Long Time Coming
  • Erasure: a minimal public web presence
  • Unlisting Yourself
  • When I was young, I was in a rock band
  • Naturally Transitioning Out
  • Tenure as a forcing function
  • High School Debut
  • Out of Touch
  • Ownership Over Our (Digital) Selves
  • Posting about Quitting
  • No One's Going to Cry
  • Making Introductory Content
  • More Beginners in a Growing Field
  • The Business of Patrons
  • Doing the Work vs. Funding It
  • Staying or Stepping Away
  • Seinfeld and Ending at the Top
  • Freeing Your Mind for the Next Thing
  • "It's all I've Known"
  • Graceful Degradation
  • A Time to Reflect
  • Acting on Our Beliefs
  • Quitting Should be Boring
  • Intentionality
  • We Are As Athletes
  • Adding Friction
★ Support this podcast ★ ]]> Wed, 16 Sep 2020 19:26:15 -0400 Henry Zhu Henry Zhu 2759 Why would you choose to leave the public internet on your own terms? Philip Gee joins Henry (for the 2nd time) to chat about his recent choice to make a minimal public web presence after being on the web for many years. We discuss the logistics of removing social media (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube), moving to longer forms of media (podcasts, essays, books), making introductory content, recognizing different stages of your career, being out of touch, freeing your mind for the next thing, not being ashamed of previous work, taking time to reflect, and friction. (recorded in May) Transcript: https://maintainersanonymous.com/unlisting. Why would you choose to leave the public internet on your own terms? Philip Gee joins Henry (for the 2nd time) to chat about his recent choice to make a minimal public web presence after being on the web for many years. We discuss the logistics of removin open source, maintainer, governance, sustainability No 16: Philip Gee (#3) on Life After Digital Death 16 16 16: Philip Gee (#3) on Life After Digital Death full 4d697b05-a3d7-4c46-a736-5ffc39d0cc87 https://share.transistor.fm/s/f40ec401 What's life after removing yourself from social media? Philip Gee joins Henry (the last in the "trilogy") to chat about LAT, life after Twitter. We discuss being irrelevant, forcing yourself to think about different things, treating a newsletter like email, restraining your growth, moving to the digital suburbs, engaging with the past, directing your attention and production, being particular and local, making it normal again to not have to create. (recorded in July) Transcript: https://hopeinsource.com/digital-death.

First chat (MA 7): https://hopeinsource.com/growing-old
Second chat (MA 15): https://hopeinsource.com/unlisting
Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad

Headings:

  • Intro to the Trilogy
  • A Movie Review By a Random Person
  • Forcing Your Own Hand
  • Email Is a Newsletter without an Archive
  • Restrained Growth
  • Convenience Over Everything
  • Quitting and Twitter Brouhaha
  • From City to Suburbs
  • Stepping Back By Not Producing
  • Conflating Consumption and Production
  • Engaging with The Distant Past
  • Getting the Last Word
  • Showing Charity to Those Things
  • Spewing Out Stuff, Undirected
  • After Influence, Staying Niche?
  • Generality (Mega Church) and Particularity (House Church)
  • The Small Scale is the Only Scale
  • It's Not Weird To Not Make Anything
★ Support this podcast ★ ]]> What's life after removing yourself from social media? Philip Gee joins Henry (the last in the "trilogy") to chat about LAT, life after Twitter. We discuss being irrelevant, forcing yourself to think about different things, treating a newsletter like email, restraining your growth, moving to the digital suburbs, engaging with the past, directing your attention and production, being particular and local, making it normal again to not have to create. (recorded in July) Transcript: https://hopeinsource.com/digital-death.

First chat (MA 7): https://hopeinsource.com/growing-old
Second chat (MA 15): https://hopeinsource.com/unlisting
Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad

Headings:

  • Intro to the Trilogy
  • A Movie Review By a Random Person
  • Forcing Your Own Hand
  • Email Is a Newsletter without an Archive
  • Restrained Growth
  • Convenience Over Everything
  • Quitting and Twitter Brouhaha
  • From City to Suburbs
  • Stepping Back By Not Producing
  • Conflating Consumption and Production
  • Engaging with The Distant Past
  • Getting the Last Word
  • Showing Charity to Those Things
  • Spewing Out Stuff, Undirected
  • After Influence, Staying Niche?
  • Generality (Mega Church) and Particularity (House Church)
  • The Small Scale is the Only Scale
  • It's Not Weird To Not Make Anything
★ Support this podcast ★ ]]> Wed, 23 Sep 2020 12:00:00 -0400 Henry Zhu Henry Zhu 2002 What's life after removing yourself from social media? Philip Gee joins Henry (the last in the "trilogy") to chat about LAT, life after Twitter. We discuss being irrelevant, forcing yourself to think about different things, treating a newsletter like email, restraining your growth, moving to the digital suburbs, engaging with the past, directing your attention and production, being particular and local, making it normal again to not have to create. (recorded in July) Transcript: https://hopeinsource.com/digital-death. What's life after removing yourself from social media? Philip Gee joins Henry (the last in the "trilogy") to chat about LAT, life after Twitter. We discuss being irrelevant, forcing yourself to think about different things, treating a newsletter like emai open source, maintainer, governance, sustainability No