14: Shawn Wang on Open Knowledge

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

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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

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14: Shawn Wang on Open Knowledge

Maintainers Anonymous

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MP3•Episodio en casa

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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

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16 episodios

#Tech #Government #Open Source #Henry Zhu #Sustainability #Maintainers

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16: Philip Gee (#3) on Life After Digital Death 33:22

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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 ★…

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15: Philip Gee (#2) on Unlisting Yourself 45:59

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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 ★…

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14: Shawn Wang on Open Knowledge 54:53

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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 ★…

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13: Jordan Scales on Nostalgia and Not Taking Yourself Too Seriously 1:16:49

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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 ★…

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12: Maggie Appleton on Embodiment Through Metaphors 54:01

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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…

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11: Maggie Appleton on Open Source as a Gift Economy 55:28

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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 ★…

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10: Jonathan Farbowitz on the Commitment to Infinite Uptime 1:15:22

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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 ★…

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9: Wendy Hagenmaier on Preserving the (Digital) Past 41:42

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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 ★…

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8: Anthony Giovannetti on Mastery and Learning through Games 56:34

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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 ★…

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7: Philip Gee On Growing Old with the Web 1:03:31

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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 ★…

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6: Jory Burson on the Significance of Standards 1:04:43

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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 ★…

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5: Evan You on Funding One's Freedom 1:26:15

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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 ★…

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4: Mikeal Rogers on Getting Old in Open Source 1:23:01

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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 ★…

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3: Stephanie Hurlburt on the Perception of Value 54:34

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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 ★…

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2: Stephanie Hurlburt on Boundaries 49:01

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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 ★…

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1: Omnigamer on Speedrunning as Research 1:26:46

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