There is no such thing as luck
summary
Claim: becoming an OSS developer is not luck but sustained effort and maintenance. The talk gives concrete numbers and practices: maintaining 350 npm modules, breaking Yarn and receiving 100 comments in 15 minutes, and building Pino which scales to $300k/month with 52 maintainers. Practical takeaways include learn git and git rebase, always add unit tests, triage and fix issue tracker bugs, aim to contribute to an already successful project or earn collaborator access, and budget time because popular projects demand ongoing maintenance.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:50My open-source journey
- 3:40Making a career in open source
- 8:01Open source as art
- 10:37Overcoming impostor syndrome
- 13:12The importance of people
- 16:37Being a good citizen
- 22:18The reality of maintenance
- 25:44Closing thoughts
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