Podcasts by 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.
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16: Philip Gee (#3) on Life After Digital Death from 2020-09-23T12:00
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 ...
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15: Philip Gee (#2) on Unlisting Yourself from 2020-09-16T19:26:15
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 o...
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14: Shawn Wang on Open Knowledge from 2020-09-02T09:01:29
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/re...
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13: Jordan Scales on Nostalgia and Not Taking Yourself Too Seriously from 2020-05-26T15:30
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 m...
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12: Maggie Appleton on Embodiment Through Metaphors from 2020-05-13T12:00
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 (basica...
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11: Maggie Appleton on Open Source as a Gift Economy from 2020-03-06T13:00
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 sourc...
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10: Jonathan Farbowitz on the Commitment to Infinite Uptime from 2019-07-15T12:00
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, t...
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9: Wendy Hagenmaier on Preserving the (Digital) Past from 2019-07-08T17:30
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...
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8: Anthony Giovannetti on Mastery and Learning through Games from 2019-06-21T15:00
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, play...
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7: Philip Gee On Growing Old with the Web from 2019-05-31T11:15
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 m...
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6: Jory Burson on the Significance of Standards from 2019-05-24T09:00
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 ...
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5: Evan You on Funding One's Freedom from 2019-05-06T17:05
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 ...
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4: Mikeal Rogers on Getting Old in Open Source from 2019-04-29T15:00
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, ...
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3: Stephanie Hurlburt on the Perception of Value from 2019-04-19T11:30
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 ho...
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2: Stephanie Hurlburt on Boundaries from 2019-04-12T10:30
How is business development relevant to open source? Stephanie Hurlburt (Binomial) joins Henry to chat about understanding learnings from success, setting health boundaries, what "netwo...
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1: Omnigamer on Speedrunning as Research from 2019-04-10T02:10
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 o...
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