Maintainers Anonymous

A podcast about seeing and sharing our lives as maintainers, with @left_pad

[henry @left_pad]

Had a chat with @swyx a few months ago about a host of topics: open knowledge (vs. simply open source), being code adjacent (maintaining not just code but a meetup, a subreddit, or some notes), and humility through memento mori

Transcript: https://t.co/m0zESq5PIL (54min)

[henry @left_pad]

New @MaintainersAnon with @jdan on 98.css (76min)!

We chat about motivation by nostalgia, pixel perfection as a standard, creating for fun, and satire at no one's expense! (and Guy Fieri wasn't the original choice for Babel's exports.guy 😮)

Transcript: https://t.co/ToEm33a2kt

[henry @left_pad]

New @MaintainersAnon Podcast! (54min)

Maybe you've heard of @Mappletons talks about metaphor, embodiment, and programming? We also recorded a podcast about it a few months ago!

On Apple, Google, Spotify: https://t.co/uyxyPjdV6W

Transcript: https://t.co/mrmqV6Pzzk

[Maggie Appleton @Mappletons]

Recently got to chat to @left_pad about anthropological gift economies, open source software, digital embodiment, and plenty more on his wonderful Maintainers Anonymous @maintainersanon podcast

You can give it a listen and read all my notes here: https://t.co/F5Sgs1cnZX

[Maintainers Anonymous @MaintainersAnon]

New Maintainers Anonymous (55min) with Maggie Appleton @Mappletons!

🔊On Open Source as a Gift Economy

💬 personal/transactional, emic/etic in anthropology, types of gifts, why we give, on positive/negative freedom, epistemology, embodiment

Transcript: https://t.co/ourotNYYnX

[Maintainers Anonymous @MaintainersAnon]

New Maintainers Anonymous with Jonathan @farbowitz (@Guggenheim) and @left_pad!

🔊 On the Conservation of Digital Art

💬 museums, conservation norms, author collaboration, emulation vs. porting, artwork "dependencies", testing environments

https://t.co/MutFLQEvxb

[Software Preservation Network @SoftPresNetwork]

🛠️💾#FCoP Project Lead @jfarbowitz on @MaintainersAnon💾🛠️#Podcast creator & #OSS maintainer @left_pad cont #software #preservation mini-series | THIS WEEK: #art, #dependencies, #breakages, #emulation v. #porting in #digital #conservation. LISTEN: https://t.co/3acG7oCrbi

[pia mancini @piamancini]

Because sustainability is not just financial support, the Open Source Collective started a Peer Support Group for Maintainers led by @richlitt and @hzoo. https://t.co/O5SFMD0kMv We are reaching out to the humans behind the code. 🚀❤️🙏 Sign up: https://t.co/uT5gNxaOsK

[Maintainers Anonymous @MaintainersAnon]

New Maintainers Anonymous with Wendy Hagenmaier (@GeorgiaTech) and @left_pad!

🔊 On Preserving the (Digital) Past

💬 The art of archiving, maintaining our history, shared knowledge, concerns/struggles, physical vs. digital, what we can do

🔗https://t.co/REaLTBiVM0

[henry @left_pad]

Had a great time discussing the conservation of digital works with @jfarbowitz, was cool see this intersection of art + tech in his work! Also had the opportunity to finally check out @Guggenheim for the first time as it's here in preparation for our discussion. Thanks Jonathan!

[Maintainers Anonymous @MaintainersAnon]

New Maintainers Anonymous with @megacrit (Anthony Giovannetti) and @left_pad!

🔊On Mastery and Learning through Games (Slay the Spire)

💬 Games as an immersive, emergent medium, player incentives, user testing, marketing via streaming/UX

🔗 https://t.co/2j3yZiwoF5

[Lemon Productions (aka Chris 👋🏽) @lemonproduction]

Today’s podcast edit is a great @MaintainersAnon conversation @Left_Pad had with @megacrit on the development of Slay the Spire.

https://t.co/6ZYKhV2cwv

[henry @left_pad]

I'm chatting with Anthony of @MegaCrit for @MaintainersAnon about Slay the Spire! Hoping to learn about the maintenance of a video game vs. open source, steam early access, post-launch concerns, engaging the community via discord/reddit/streams, and more! Any questions for him?

[Maintainers Anonymous @MaintainersAnon]

Maintainers Anonymous episode with @pgbovine and @left_pad!

🔊 On Growing Old with the Web

💬 intimacy of podcasts, attaching ideas to people (@nayafia), knowledge opening up possibilities, embracing whimsy/spontaneity, understanding our bodies, rest

🔗
https://t.co/GGlMjooaPk

[Maintainers Anonymous @MaintainersAnon]

Maintainers Anonymous episode with @jorydotcom and @left_pad!

🔊 On the Significance of Standards

💬 what standards are, why we need them, what should be standardized, lifecycles of standards, past/future accessibility of participating in the process

🔗https://t.co/qGK9SPwjg8

[Maintainers Anonymous @MaintainersAnon]

Maintainers Anonymous episode with @evanyou and @left_pad!

🔊 Funding One's Freedom

💬 complexity of people vs. projects, non-monetary perks of open source, full time not being for everyone, the importance of side projects and off-pressure moments

🔗 https://t.co/4QxvjnK29n

[Maintainers Anonymous @MaintainersAnon]

Maintainers Anonymous episode with @mikeal and @left_pad!

🔊 Getting Old in Open Source

💬 friends through podcasting, conference organizing, patronage, old/new school oss, deprecating packages and healthy ecosystems, being the "first", and parenting

🔗https://t.co/4MiDmILEAu

[Maintainers Anonymous @MaintainersAnon]

🔊 Maintainers Anonymous is out again with @left_pad and @sehurlburt! We speak about value: how we perceive and communicate it.

💬 value, psychology of code vs money, a holistic view of business, everything as marketing, confidence, the nature of giving

https://t.co/JehGEKvAdR

[Maintainers Anonymous @MaintainersAnon]

🔊 If you missed it, episode #2 is out with @sehurlburt!

💬 We chat about the complexity of learning from success, setting healthy boundaries, what "networking" is about, pitching.

Looking to do more w/ business development if you have suggestions!

🔗 https://t.co/LTlT4fkffU

[henry @left_pad]

First episode is with the awesome @TheOmnigamer, who I found after watching his "Talk at Google". After hearing he was a software engineer, I just had to ask!

(What's fun is that this release took long enough that his book is out, Speedrun Science 🔬)

https://t.co/qbY9Px1h8B