Nick and Mikeal catch up with Henry Zhu, the maintainer of Babel and host of the Maintainers Anonymous and Hope in Source podcasts. We discuss his path to open source maintainer-ship. We also chat about best practices for interacting with maintainers, while remembering that people are behind open source, and we talk self-care and avoiding burnout, culminating in a self-care repo being created to gather and discuss tips to care for yourself.
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Featuring:
Henry Zhu – Website, GitHub, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Hope in Source
Maintainers Anonymous
The GitHub Revolution: Why We’re All in Open Source Now
Open Collective
Introducing draft pull requests
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Mikeal’s self-care repository
Henry’s Patreon
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Adam is on location at ZEIT Day talking with Jessica Rose about burnout, Henry Zhu about his passions and pursuit of open source, and Simon Willison about data and his passion for interesting datasets in the world.
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Featuring:
Jessica Rose – Website, GitHub, X
Henry Zhu – Website, GitHub, X
Simon Willison – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
ZEIT Day 2018
ZEIT Day 2018 - Keynote
Jessica Rose
Jessica Rose: Burnout and Balance at ZEIT Day 2018
Pursuit Podcast on Twitter
Henry Zhu
Henry Zhu: In Pursuit of Open Source at ZEIT Day 2018
Henry Zhu on Patreon
Babel on Open Collective
The React Podcast #4: Babel and open source sustainability
RFC #18: Maintaining a Popular Project and Sponsored Time
Simon Willison
Simon Willison: Datasette and Datasette Publish at ZEIT Day 2018
Datasette on GitHub
Posts tagged with Datasette on simonwillison.net
Datasette: instantly create and publish an API for your SQLite databases
Simon was super impressed and very interested in our open source podcast transcripts
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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