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Interviews with open source maintainers and developers

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New interview with @carolynvs:

She's a core maintainer on Porter, a tool for making cloud deployments easier, who's been working on open source since the year 2000. Suffice to say she has some great advice to give to OSS maintainers and contributors: https://t.co/OCn3CT4jqn

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New interview with Alyssa Rosenzweig, a maintainer of FOSS graphics driver Panfrost/Mesa:

https://t.co/yE1igiIR31

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Also, thanks to @_inesmontani for the intro via @explosion_ai - clearly a great place for OSS devs!

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New interview with @tiangolo of FastAPI
- Synthesising ideas and concepts from prior work to create the best combination
- The importance of a great developer experience
- Prioritising as a maintainer
https://t.co/Uyl2QnMTfI

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New interview with @pradyunsg
- balancing being a student with helping to maintain a number of important Python packages
- paying down technical debt
- how his curiosity led him from his first small bug fix to being a conference speaker
https://t.co/Os9wPkrXsQ

[Ovidiu @skidding]

What an honor to be featured on SourceSort among some truly impressive people like @andrestaltz and @_inesmontani 🤩

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New interview with @skidding of @ReactCosmos - congrats on the release of v5!

- Making React components with visual TDD
- Balancing flexible jobs w/ OSS work
- Figuring out the motivations that keep you going on an OSS project

https://t.co/hDzScg9PmA

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Interview with Tyler Childs of the Cutestrap CSS framework:
- Fighting for traditional CSS amongst the new developments like @tailwindcss
- The difficult of managing an open source project after it unexpectedly goes viral

https://t.co/byQyJdDYjw

[Franck Abgrall @FranckAbgrall]

A curated list of awesome resources for funding open source projects and authors.
https://t.co/qKmFNVJn9P

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New interview with @_inesmontani of @explosion_ai
- The difficulty of balancing development of @spacy_io with bootstrapping
- Aligning incentives when making both open source and commercial tools
- The importance of setting expectations for a community
https://t.co/7AUyAnsuvX

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@TomQbk @browserless @EmileWray Thank you @TomQbk , I like your quote highlighting style - I might starting doing more tweets like that myself :)

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New interview with Joel Griffith of @browserless
- How browserless grew out of another side project
- Why Joel decided to open source a revenue-generating product
- The technical difficulties in making a headless browser service reliable and easy to use
https://t.co/gVWhZvAaku

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New interview with @StartupNextDoor:
- Why he created a study plan to help himself and others transform from web developer to software engineer
- How it got huge traction on GitHub, now reaching 92k stars
https://t.co/Y6UIuLoQvV

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New interview with @andrestaltz:
- Why he started working on @manyver_se, a decentralized social network
- How he's gotten funding from backers and grants
- The difficulties of working alone on a big open source project
https://t.co/EZk2mIIlnl

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New interview with @erikras:
- Why he created @ReduxForm
- What is was like being the sole maintainer of a rapidly growing #opensource project
- Why he created a new form library in @finalformjs
- How he's travelled the world with conference gigs

https://t.co/xmk3eOxP9J

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New interview with Peter Zhokhov of @OpenAI gym which attempts to speed up progress towards AGI by providing a unified interface for AI researchers to train models and collaborate on.

https://t.co/OX9v1bDe2W

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New interview with
@DanielFore
on his experience as a founder of an open-source, design-first operating system in
@elementary: https://t.co/2zTKuabcnE

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@elementary Oops - wish I had noticed this sooner, my apologies. I'll try again next week.

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@feoh Thanks @feoh - I'll have a look at creating an RSS feed this weekend.

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Interview with Urban Bruhin of LibrePCB: he started making OSS for printed circuit boards in order to finish his quadcopter. https://t.co/Qp9M2ERJ6G