Episodes
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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_padHeadings:
Intro to the TrilogyA Movie Review By a Random PersonForcing Your Own HandEmail Is a Newsletter without an ArchiveRestrained GrowthConvenience Over EverythingQuitting and Twitter BrouhahaFrom City to SuburbsStepping Back By Not ProducingConflating Consumption and ProductionEngaging with The Distant PastGetting the Last WordShowing Charity to Those ThingsSpewing Out Stuff, UndirectedAfter Influence, Staying Niche?Generality (Mega Church) and Particularity (House Church)The Small Scale is the Only ScaleIt's Not Weird To Not Make Anything★ Support this podcast ★
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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_padHeadings:
"He took everything down!"A Long Time ComingErasure: a minimal public web presenceUnlisting YourselfWhen I was young, I was in a rock bandNaturally Transitioning OutTenure as a forcing functionHigh School DebutOut of TouchOwnership Over Our (Digital) SelvesPosting about QuittingNo One's Going to CryMaking Introductory ContentMore Beginners in a Growing FieldThe Business of PatronsDoing the Work vs. Funding ItStaying or Stepping AwaySeinfeld and Ending at the TopFreeing Your Mind for the Next Thing"It's all I've Known"Graceful DegradationA Time to ReflectActing on Our BeliefsQuitting Should be BoringIntentionalityWe Are As AthletesAdding Friction★ Support this podcast ★
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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_padHeadings:
Intro: Tumbling as an Alternative to Community Manager Specific, Limited-term Maintainer RolesSeparation of Maintainer ConcernsBabel W18, like YC W18Becoming a Moderator for /r/reactjsLearning with "I Promise to Answer Every Question"History and Memento Mori: A Time Before GitWhere's the Story of How Projects Get Started?A Culture of "Document Yourself More"Learning Gears: Explorer, Connector, MinerFinding A Vision People Can Rally AroundBeing Code AdjacentMaybe We Need a JavaScript Community ManagerCheat Sheets and Awesome ListsPersonalized Docs, Documentation LevelsOpen Source Knowledge, Proof of WorkTwitter as a Permanent Hallway TrackFind the Intersection of Two CommunitiesDocumenting Underlying Assumptions"Fresh notes"Starting a Meetup: Svelte SocietyKeeping it AliveTaking Part in Category CreationThe Meta LanguageParenting and Figuring Things OutNot Everything Needs to be in PublicCSS 4: Does It Even Matter if No One Knows?Adoption Curves: Focusing too much on the headRemoving the Learning Curve with Better DefaultsPhilosophy of TechnologySpatial Software, The Mind★ Support this podcast ★
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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
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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
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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
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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/
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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